Different DLCs for each religion that hasn't yet been represented
make them 2 bucks each
make them 2 bucks each
As to your question: Are they worth an entire DLC? No, just make them playable via a patch and be done with it. Lets face it, we are dealing with primitive barbarians, no interest in culture, technology, ect. (which was probably a contributing cause to their demise).
What Paradox could try is embellish a DLC by adding Jews, Jewish courtiers/nobles, making theocracies playable (with all the drama that surrounded their elections), earlier starting date (adding Vikings and traversing to Greenland and Newfoundland or Vinland would be cool), ect. But as a stand-alone DLC? Just doesn't raise the eyebrows.
Different DLCs for each religion that hasn't yet been represented
make them 2 bucks each
The problem is that some of them would sell and some wouldn't. Tengrii, Norse and Romuva would probably sell reasonably, in that order - Romuva's a bit borderline for all Lithuania was amazingly successful. Suomensko, African Pagan and (forum enthusiasm nonwithstanding) Zoroastrian likely wouldn't. So it doesn't make economic sense to do it that way (I'd like it, granted, and I'd buy them all).
Some have suggesting breaking it into "northern" (Norse, Romuva, Suomensko) and "southern" (Tengrii, maybe some bits for Zoroastrian) pagan DLCs (I doubt anyone expects the African pagans to get anything much given they're ahistorically irrelevent even in Mali), which at least has selling points for both (play the Norse versus play the Mongols), but I truthfully expect all the pagans will just be in one DLC. We can just hope that there's some fun differentiation between them, and gameplay changes that prevent the ahistorical and silly disappearence of the Baltic pagans within thirty years of gamestart.
Yeah, that'd be wonderful. I won't hold my breath, but we did get the African portrait and unit packs (camel cavalry!) so who knows? That's what's so awesome about the new DLC system as opposed to the big catch-all expansions - there is actually some hope that you might get something focusing on an area like Africa, whereas the chances in the old system of places like that getting attention were all but zilch. Heck, even Sword of Islam is amazing in the new experience, depth, flavour and reasonable authenticity it gives playing Muslim states compared to, say, what Muslim countries got from all four EUIII expansions.
It isn't laughable to pay 40 dollars back when it came out only to be told "here is the rest of the game, want it? you have to fork out more cash." Your statement is invalid. I already paid for this game. I should not have to pay for updates.
I dont understand "lol vikings are so cool" fanboys here. "Pagan" DLC if something like that ever surfaces should focus on major pagan factions left in Europe in games timeframe. Steppe people of Cumans and Mongols. Also Baltic region around Lithuania. So called Norse religion was insignificant no matter how much you would like otherwise.
And if they bumped the timeline forwards by even a century, your entire argument becomes kaput.
Moving the date forward by a century would make it the most comprehensive DLC yet, and that's without actually adding Pagan mechanics.