Then again, most people are using Windows, so a Linux bug is not something we would notice.
Not trolling here, but how often is the game playable?
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Paradox has had big success with CK2 and EU4 so I doubt they have any money problems. If they really wanted it they could present us reasonably tested DLC's and patches. Other companies manage to do it. They just have to put more resources into testing / release DLCs less frequently. We have to break the current DLC-whoring system.
Defines on what you mean by 'playable', apart from the Linux issues which do make it more unplayable.
Does the game run and operate - Yes, with rare CTDs since 2.3.
Is the game usable - Yes, if you like an easy life.
Is the game working as designed (WAD) - No, but it is playable, but not as you might expect (and apologies, but I only started with CM, so I have no experience of how it used to be).
I have various armies scattered around my empire, but, with High CA, I don't see my counts warring on their dukes. I do have a lot of intrigues, generally Kill Someone and some Claim Fabrication. If not that, they are all buried in seduction, which is an issue with WoL. I get an occasional revolt, Cathar or Sunni, but no-one has tried for Independence or Lower CA. I had a couple of Adventurers against me in the 1000s but nothing else since then, apart from raiding Vikings. Perhaps because of my size, but no-one wants to declare war on me.
France/Benelux split into 6 kingdoms in late 8000s and all they seem to do now is deal with revolts, very few internal wars. None of them or Italy were interested in the last Crusades for Greece and Jerusalem, so I grew from King of Bavaria to King of Bavaria, Greece and Jerusalem, and have the Bavarian Empire. I am, apart from Umayyad, the largest army at 1185, and waiting for a Jihad on Jerusalem.
There are things I could do - take out the rest of Europe, Greece, Anatolia should all be possible for me. It is just that I don't get attacked, internally or externally.
Does the game run and operate - Yes, with rare CTDs since 2.3.
Is the game usable - Yes, if you like an easy life.
Is the game working as designed (WAD) - No, but it is playable, but not as you might expect (and apologies, but I only started with CM, so I have no experience of how it used to be).
I have various armies scattered around my empire, but, with High CA, I don't see my counts warring on their dukes. I do have a lot of intrigues, generally Kill Someone and some Claim Fabrication. If not that, they are all buried in seduction, which is an issue with WoL. I get an occasional revolt, Cathar or Sunni, but no-one has tried for Independence or Lower CA. I had a couple of Adventurers against me in the 1000s but nothing else since then, apart from raiding Vikings. Perhaps because of my size, but no-one wants to declare war on me.
France/Benelux split into 6 kingdoms in late 8000s and all they seem to do now is deal with revolts, very few internal wars. None of them or Italy were interested in the last Crusades for Greece and Jerusalem, so I grew from King of Bavaria to King of Bavaria, Greece and Jerusalem, and have the Bavarian Empire. I am, apart from Umayyad, the largest army at 1185, and waiting for a Jihad on Jerusalem.
There are things I could do - take out the rest of Europe, Greece, Anatolia should all be possible for me. It is just that I don't get attacked, internally or externally.
Dude... it's a strategy game and the AI can't declare war after a while... it's not "playable" except if it was an early access game, it is a game nearly 3 years old..
That's what he is saying, its not playable in the WAD sense, just the "It turns on!" sense.
People wanted more peacetime activity. PDS eradicated war. People want more wartime activity. No pleasing some people, huh.
joke
I'm inclined to agree. I've been buying all of the DLC including all of the silly unit packs, etc. mainly because I've wanted to support the devs for making awesome games of high quality... but now that quality is slipping and I feel like I've been subsidizing sloppiness.
Yep, this basically summarizes my observations. If you don't understand the mechanics of the game very well, then the unplayability of its current state is invisible. I've you've played it a lot, then the problems are pretty obvious. I was playing a count in Lombardy and steamrolled my way to an independant kingdom in just a few years. When I declared independance, the King sent 145 soldiers after me. Yep, unplayable.