We need to bring back expansions... INSTANTLY

[Wizzington]

I am curious how exactly people without Art of War are going to 'compete' against those who have it considering you get to use the expansion mechanics for free if playing a MP game where the host has it.

Achievement hunts? Fastest Ryukyu world conquest? Biggest map name?

 

[Castellon]

EDITED OP for some foul language.
please keep the trolling work-safe, thanks.

-Thank you on behalf of evil corporation.
I must now go back to counting all the money rolling in as it is beginning to backup and spill out of the loading dock.

 

[Wizzington]

EU3 had 4 "expansions" over almost 4 years, EU4 has had 6 in 2 years.

EU3 had 2 people working on expansions (and not 100% of the time) IIRC. Each EU4 expansion (not counting RP) has had significantly more dev hours put into it than their EU3 counterparts.

 

[podcat]

As someone who has worked at paradox for a long time I feel its time someone stepped up and told the dark sad truth.

Yes, its true. back in 2007 before the release of EU3, we spend the last couple of month chopping off all of the expansions. The art programmer complained a bit when we downgraded the map as part of cutting out Divine Wind and some are still not sure if that was a good call, but of course how else would we have been able to squeeze every last dollar out of our customers??

In fact, one of the reasons it took so long to get going on EU4 is that we had to wait for Johan to crash all of the paradox sports cars before we could be allowed to get off the couch and work again. Dont worry though we spent over a year cutting out DLC from EU4 before release so I'm pretty sure we can just lazy around for another couple of years now!

 

[Castellon]

I wrote my own "Final count down" mod for one of the older iterations of WitP.
USS Nimitz vs the whole Japanese navy, it was pretty awesome.