So don't complain... The whole point of a game forum it's for it's community state their desires, reactions, disagreements. I doubt that Paradox will close the forum just because someone for whatever reason doesn't want to read complains in a forum.
Do Devs play mods?
From what i've seen they've already started with the Balkans and France, since in the latest Dev Diary, it showed both 1 addition province in Bosnia and 1 in the ottoman empire. And one in Provence, not to mention the Burgundian Lands have seen at least Structural Changes...
You just shot yourself in the foot. Making threads like this (and from what I've seen it's not the first one) only increases this issue, it's reverse psychology. Even if a mod is of superior quality it will never be the same as something the devs officially implemented. Something that's an integral part of the game, something that relates to everyone playing EU4. And it warms your belly to see that the little corner of the world you like, because it's your home, you like it's history or culture or any other bizarre reason, is well represented within the game. Other than that, some individuals obsess over things which for others are irrelevant details, remember that seriousness of an issues is relative. Some look at the ingame map, notice things are not how they're supposed to be and they tear their hair out. What you're doing is exactly the same, over some people promoting their personal agendas, which is the whole point of a forum. To share and discus agendas. That said, there are people who seem excessively obsessed (as if obsession didn't stand for an excessive behaviour on its own), and appear too pushy.
Don't get me wrong, I completely get that this is a forum for discussion. If it was a proper discussion rather than just people ranting at paradox for not fixing everything they want irritates me. People who demand that paradox do these improvements immediately (now 5 days before release). Even the people who are civil about it, but decide that they will just spam how much they need a certain improvement in every dev diary.
it really doesn't seem as if you get it.
Since you seem to point out me in particular (as I am the swedish-finnish border guy), why don't I just point out where and how you are wrong...First, notice the words I've put in bold and underlined. In my case it WAS a proper discussion, I did NOT demand anything, nor did I spam. I posted ONE thread about those borders, which hasn't been active for days now, and I posted ONE post in ONE the dev diary about it (and a couple of replies). Go back and look. If you call that spam, demanding, or inproper in anyway, you are wholly clueless.
No developer ever posted in my thread, and I have only ONCE posted about those borders in ONE dev diary, which Wiz responded to. To clarify, I have only asked ONCE in a dev diary and I have only gotten an answer ONCE. That is NOT spam for crying out loud! Wiz said they're are aware of the problem, and I liked the post. End of story.
Oh, you mean like this?
maybe they think that feedback is actually whining, complaining, and otherwise being contrary...So the threadstarter wants us to stop giving feedback to Paradox?
Nope, never ever gonna happen. We talk of improvements because Paradox does an awesome job of actually listening to their players. What some call complaining, I call passion for an amazing game.
If there was a button "Noted" I would press that, but since we only have "Helpful", "Agree" and "Disagree", I will not. Now here's something that should have been suggested a while ago
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The position "if you don't like it, mod it" is possibly one of the worst arguments ever.
The only mod I have played was shattered Europa, the concept, that everything is broken down, sounds good on paper. However, the implementation was aweful because they hadn't adjusted the AE levels, so that mean that starting as any nation you got a mega coalition that you could not withstand from conquering a handful of provinces. After that I haven't played a mod, vanilla is just better.
