I think most people who pause and think about it know that people working on HOI4 have different talents and responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't expect a coder to create graphics, and vice versa.
However, at the risk of being the skunk at the garden party, I also think a lot of the graphics, releasable nations, sliders, and cosmetics being done/proposed are effectively eye candy to distract customers from the failure to repair critical features that are unbalanced or broken since release. Like a magician working the crowd, they hope we listen to the spiel and not watch the hands. PDS has already said that one critical broken feature, an actual US vs Japan Pacific war, won't be even looked at until sometime in the future after the current patch. You effectively have 2 out of 7 major powers not worth playing as their AI major opponent is a baby seal. Personally, I find it hard to call HOI4 a WW2 grand strategy game with a straight face when it doesn't even have a working Pacific campaign.
And yet, I am still here holding out hope.
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). The only reason we have any expectations of free stuff at the moment is because of PDS' behaviour in the past (ie, they regularly include free stuff, and good amounts of it, in patches), and have a long history of doing so. I'm not saying it wouldn't be good PR to include Blitz on the free side of the ledger (personally, noting I have virtually no experience in marketing and very limited experience in consumer relations, so my view should be taken with liberal amounts of salt, I think it would), but we are not being treated badly if it's on the paid side.
