Man .. Listen, I very rarely post on the forums, yet I've been a Paradox player for more than ten years, and boy I love your games. I love Grand Strategy and, dear Paradox, you're simply the best at it. Your games compel us to play *just* another year, another ten years, another frigging century, because they have this most unique quality : History takes form, and most importantly, alternative history of your own making takes form. And it's RAW PLEASURE to play most of your games.
Yet I see a trend I do not like. Not at all. I don't know exactly when it happened, but for some years I stopped getting excited about DLCs releases. Why ? Because each and every time, I see paid content proposed by you good sirs which should have been integrated in the base game for free. Or already present features which should have been proposed for free. I don't mind a bit paying the right price for new content. Yet I feel like some of this very same content was cut from the base game to be profited on later using the guise of extensions. I mean, look at Federations. Look at Emperor. What does they add that we've not seen in previous games, or that were proposed freely in the form of mods ? I just stopped buying extensions. Twenty bucks is too high a price for too few features. SIncerely, I don't what to make of your policy, but I feel like you just lost interest in improving your games for your community rather than for profit.
And, yes, I do know that a company has to make money, to prosper, to grow, or just to provide financial comfort for hard-working employees. I just think you overvalue those DLCs. Of course, most of us will keep buying those, and a player has to love new features. Yet it looks more like cut content than additional content.
Maybe it is not my place, nor *the* place, to post this, but I just feel tired of your added content policy and the constant squeezing of your customers.
I love you Paradox, but which new release, I feel like you're taking me for a fool.