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I'll probably still buy it... in a year or two, heavily discounted with all dlc included. But at these prices and conditions at launch? Lol.
Yeah that's my feeling precisely. I have high hopes, but rock-bottom expectations, and with those expectations, the cost of the game and the shitty business practices with this day-one DLC are just not going to sell me on the game. I'm going to be waiting for reviews from dedicated fans who have had months to digest the game at the bare minimum, and for any inevitably-necessary patches (whether they come from the devs or from fans). This game and this developer and this price just have not earnt the trust necessary to buy the game at full price shortly after release, let alone pre-order it.
This is exactly why I stopped playing CK3. It was fine at release, a bit wonky coming from 2 but with DLCs releasing and me not buying them, it just started to become a hot mess
Same.. I need to do a playthrough of the first one anyway
Go look at other Paradox games and their DLC prices.
... Paradox games are why sites like G2A exist, they are notorious for requiring you to buy $200 of DLC to actually play the modern version of the game, they just develop the core game assuming you will also have all the other DLC, and then wow big surprise, the core game on its own is basically an unbalanced, lackluster mess, 3 years on.