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Question 1: How many editions of Crusader Kings III are available to pre-order?
You can currently pre-order Crusader Kings III at major online retailers including the Paradox Store. On all platforms you will be greeted with by two editions:
  • The Standard Edition - SRP*of $49.99
    • The Base Game
  • The Royal Edition - SRP of $74.99
    • The Base Game
    • The Expansion Pass, comprising 3 upcoming DLCs and an Expansion Pass Bonus: Fashion of the Abbasid Court.**
  • Both editions will contain the Pre-order Bonus: Garments of the Holy Roman Empire.***

Question 2: When will the Expansion Pass be available on its own?
  • The Expansion Pass will be available for purchase on September 1st, 2020 - SRP $34.99

Question 3: What is the benefit of getting the Royal Edition? It’s good to be the King!
  • Buying the Base Game and the Expansion Pass separately will be at $84.98, you would save $9.99 by getting the Royal Edition.
  • Buying the Base Game and each DLC included in the Expansion Pass separately will be at $93.96, against $74.99 for the Royal Edition. You would save $18.97 by getting the Royal Edition.

Question 4: What kind of DLCs does the Expansion Pass include and what is included in the Pre-order Bonus?
  • Expansion Pass:
    • Expansion Pass Bonus: Fashion of the Abbasid Court, a set of additional outfits and cosmetic clothing options for the Middle East and North Africa.
    • 1st Flavor Pack: Unannounced.
    • 1st Major Expansion: Unannounced.
    • 2nd Flavor Pack: Unannounced.
  • Pre-order Bonus: Garments of the Holy Roman Empire
    • Collection of additional outfits and headgears for both commoners, warriors and rulers of Central Europe.

Question 5: When will the Pre-order and Expansion Pass Bonuses be unlocked?
  • These two bonuses will be unlocked at the release of Crusader Kings III on September 1, 2020.
  • For the time being, these bonuses will only be available by: 1) pre-ordering the Standard or Royal Edition, in the case of the Pre-Order Bonus; 2) by pre-ordering/buying the Royal Edition or by purchasing the Expansion Pass, in the case of the Expansion Pass Bonus.

Question 6: The preorder and expansion pass bonuses are adding clothes? Does that mean all characters will have the same outfits throughout the world if we do not pre-order either the Standard or Royal Edition?
  • No. Characters will have different clothes throughout the world in the Base Game. These two bonuses add more variety.

Question 7: What kind of content can we expect post-launch?
Our DLCs will be split between Flavor Packs and Major Expansions.
  • Flavor Packs - SRP $6.99: in-game content focused on a theme or a region.
  • Major Expansions - SRP $29.99: larger, meatier expansions with content and mechanics to expand and enrich your experience.
  • Free Updates: As usual, each Major Expansion will be accompanied by a free update that will provide new features, fixes and changes to improve our players’ experience.

If you are familiar with Paradox Development Studio games, you surely have realized that we will start with a Major Expansion for CK3 at a slightly higher price point than those of our previous titles. This is due to the fact that we want to spend more time on our CK3 expansions and deliver bigger DLCs with better, more exciting content and well-enhanced mechanics.

In-between the Major Expansions, smaller Flavor Packs will be released to add some spice to themes and specific regions of the world and give everyone something to spend your time with.

*SRP: Suggested Retail Price.
**Expansion Pass Bonus: Fashion of the Abbasid Court has a SRP of $2.99.
*** Pre-order Bonus: Garments of the Holy Roman Empire has a SRP of $2.99.
 
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Will the bonuses ever be available for purchase on their own? The ones for HoI4 eventually came out, but the pre-order bonus for Imperator is STILL not available. Will customers just be forced to pre-order if they expect to ever get the pre-order content as the new policy?
 
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Why is it not available on GOG, like Imperator was? I did a search and only the original CK is on offer therre.
 
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Interesting and I thought that PDX wouldn't do expansion passes again after HoI4. Also very interesting to know that Expansions will come in only two types, this is a good move away from that old system with tons of small cosmetic & music DLCs (hopefully the smaller & bigger DLC will contain much music, don't care so much about cosmetics :) ).
 
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I said that i would not be buying any preorder from Paradox after the huge dissapointment that was Imperator at launch-

But i will preorder CK3 anyways because i have a great trust on the team that is working on this game, they know what they are doing and i know that i will playing many, many, many hours of this game anyways :eek:. They are the same people who worked on HF and made CK2 the great game i still play!!!...
 
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Nice! To make an informed decision, it would be nice to know the nature of flavor packs and the meaty expansion, though. What will be in the flavor packs, character cosmetics? Regional events? Something else? Also about the expansion - what it will contain, in comparison to CK2 expansions? New regions? A set of events? What kind of major mechanics?

Is possible to reveal a little bit more about that? :)
 
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Looks good so far but there is one thing that bothers me:
"Major Expansions - SRP $29.99: larger, meatier expansions with content and mechanics to expand and enrich your experience"

Whoever thought this was a good idea really didn't think things through and to explain why I think this is a bad idea , the expansions will cost as much a full fledged game, dont believe me , google "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus"
 
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I won't buy this game from you on the Paradox store, that's for sure. 49.99 euro when Steam takes 31.88 euro with today's currency rate??
 
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Horrendus said:
Interesting and I thought that PDX wouldn't do expansion passes again after HoI4. Also very interesting to know that Expansions will come in only two types, this is a good move away from that old system with tons of small cosmetic & music DLCs (hopefully the smaller & bigger DLC will contain much music, don't care so much about cosmetics :) ).
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From the look of there is a third type for cosmetics like the HRE and Abbasids clothes.
 
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Nikolai said:
I won't buy this game from you on the Paradox store, that's for sure. 49.99 euro when Steam takes 31.88 euro with today's currency rate??
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Further, the game + first 3 expansions prepaid is 515 NOK/46.65 euro on Steam.
 
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All I want to know is if there will be ermine mantles for Kings in this game? Especially for France?
 
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IndigoRage said:
Will the bonuses ever be available for purchase on their own? The ones for HoI4 eventually came out, but the pre-order bonus for Imperator is STILL not available. Will customers just be forced to pre-order if they expect to ever get the pre-order content as the new policy?
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They will be available on their own at a later date. As for Imperator, I will feedback to the team. DM me if I forget.
 
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Bogus said:
Where did you get that figure? I am curious as well...
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Norway's price for the standard edition is 352 NOK, which equals 31.88 euro with today's currency rate.
 
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Just pre-purchased the Royal Edition from the Paradox Store and noticed it says "Paradox version".

I'm a bit confused here, does that mean I won't get a Steam key for it?
 
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In the news letter it says "Expansion Pass covering the first three upcoming expansions." Are flavor packs considered expansions as well?
 
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