It's time to kill EUIV

[Chaingun]

Yes, let's kill the game when backend statistics show the game gaining in popularity with each expansion.

New game does not equal better AI, rather the opposite. The less gameplay changes there are, the greater chance of actually making the AI better. Now admittedly, it's a challenge to keep up with broad DLC changes as well.

I don't disagree on that certain things could be better, but again, it's entirely subjective and neither my or your preferences are automatically better than other people's. The designers need to consider multiple viewpoints.

 

[Johan]

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I respectfully disagree with the assumptions you made. The longer a game has been on the market, the cheaper the initial game "box" becomes as well as older expansions alowing new people to "try it out" correlating their increased interest to new expansions is a false market assumption. Anecdotally, I am someone who did not buy it early on because I was dissatisfied with past games from EUIII's random everything to earlier games being released before they were ready (this is going back quite a few years).

Currently the price to be up to date with EU4 is a tad bit higher than at release.. Original game still is at 40€, unless at temporary sales.

And the amount of people playing any given week still grow. Almost twice as many play the game today as when Art of War was released as an example..

No, we won't kill EU4 anytime soon, it would just be insanely silly to do, as people buy our expansions and dlc's in enormous amount every month.