What is the average date you abandon a game?

[flammable888]

Sometimes I like to play until the end date although I have no interest in a world conquest.its nice to become a hegemony and getting rid of main rivals etc.sonetimes I get nice borders and abandon the game before 1600.or after I get an achievement on purpose or by accident.i also have abandoned games after losing a war but it's fun in that situation to continue unless your country is ruined.everyone plays the game their own way with their own goals.

 

[Jespoke]

I usually stop around 1600. That was already the case before, because by then i have often reached the point where I'm just conquering for the sake of it. But nowadays it is also around that point that my PC can no longer keep up, so even some games where I'm not done with my goal yet become too bothersome to finish.

 

[ImAdrian]

I stop when I get the achievement my run was aiming for

 

[bokorthedust]

I'm also achievement hunting, so I also stop when I get the last one I set out to do in the run. Most games are won in the first century anyways, from then on it's usually truces or geography is the main limiting factor for me. I also wholeheartedly hate those achievements that force you to stay in a game just for the sake of something meaningless (tech 32 as African Lake Tribe, I'm looking at you, or the adopt all institutions as a horde), I'd simply rather move one to a new one, it's the early game which is most exciting in all the runs.

 

[Romanix90]

It depends. In one example i played till end as Qing. I had great fun so i didn't want to quit. On others either when i get certain achievments or complete certain missions.

 

[Harpagon]

Around 1600 as well as the games fun factor plummets at that point for me. I start to steamroll my enemies and it becomes more like a chore clicking button after button to core and convert provinces then use the macro-builder to do the manufacture+workshop combo . Absolutism is also a really bad mechanic as I hate to trigger the court and country disaster and I need to revoke most of the privileges so the estate game is eliminated.

 

[Richard-monagha]

I'm not a world conqueror or achievement hunter so pretty much as soon as I've conquered the provinces I wanted to have a nation with good looking border I tend to quit. Normally around mid to late 1600 I get bored and finish it. Almost 4k hours player and completed maybe 5-6 games to end date.

 

[Terixis]

I will always quit by 1710 unless I'm going for an achievement that requires playing after then.

 

[Kanem Bornu]

I would like to say I usually play until about 1700 but that's not really the case these days. I used to be able to commit to longer campaigns but now I mostly stop around absolutism as I can see where the campaign is heading by that point, and I'd rather just restart as another nation.

The first 100 years or so of EU4 is still some of the best strategy gaming has to offer. I enjoy the rest of the game too, it's just that after several thousand hours I feel I've seen it all and know where the point of unstoppable snowballing occurs.

 

[Guibou]

I play with a goal in mind: acheivement, completing a new mission tree, etc. When i'm done I usually quit the game. I'm on a few hard ones left so usually 1650-1750. I hardly play "for fun" a nation and if I do, it ends abrubtly around 1550 when i'm bored.

For the first time, i'm trying an alternate history mod while taking a brake of the base game. I'm trying a few interesting nations but I tend to end my games around 1500. By that time i'm all set for endless blobing and the mission tree are not fully doable because of the changes so you complete the available part faster. I see it as a good thing in this case because i can see faster what else the mod have to offer.

4.3k hours, 331/334 acheivement

 

[TolHydra]

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river is poisoned.

Or well, in eu4 terms: a good, tall-ish income. Which so happens to be around 1600.

 

[andra]

I've don't think I've ever reached the end in any Paradox game. I'm not particularly aggressive so it's never been because I took over half the world or achieved everything I set out to do. I just get bored or things become a bit too monotonous. Usually around 1600 or so in the case of EU.

 

[Banedon Runestar]

Usually sometime around 1700, or whenever I’ve accomplished my achievement run.

 

[Syrus]

I often start losing fun in a campaign once Absolutism becomes a thing, usually my nation is already the dominating power in the world by that point, with maybe the exception of the green blob, and I just don't see the fun in punching them for the hundreth time as a kind of endboss, on the contrary, those green blobs with their insane force limits are one of the reasons the game stops being fun for me around that time.

In most cases I end the campaign some time between 1650 and 1700 or pretty much just "leave the campaign running" with low level interaction, just to see if something interesting comes around. In my Moldovia into Romania campaign in 1.30 for example Austria turned revolutionary and got a massive coalition, that was really fascinating to watch. They actually won! But such interesting end games are rare.

I'm not a fan of the much more aggressive AI that's been a thing for quite a few versions now. It makes the early game very stressful - if you don't have strong alliances you will be dow'd non-stop - and the end game boring, because you and the AI will have to have blobbed massively to compete.
Diplomacy is also too static to make the mid to late game interesting. Currying favours made it a bit more fast paced, but it still doesn't allow for a diplomatic revolution. Not to mention the problems that "rivalries" cause. Another problem is the Imperialism CB, which makes all other CBs pointless in almost all cases...

In my recent Hawai'i into US game I sat around from 1745 to 1821 waiting for Spain's colonies (all of South America) whom I (all of North America) supported to declare independence...it never happened, so the game pretty much ended in 1745 for me.

 

[merilessj]

1550 to 1600. Unless I'm doing some achievement that takes longer, roleplaying a specific scenario, or playing an MP game. If you set things up right you just snowball after the first 50 years

 

[Nostalgium]

Some time in the 1700s, usually.

 

[Atomcreator]

1600-1650 usually. Never finished a game in nearly 2000 hours of EU4 and thousands of hours in the other three. It just loses its appeal once you've done the main objectives and everything starts to snowball.

 

[Korsjan Rīkis]

I always end at 1821, unless I'm restating a campaign, of course.

 

[MachopPower69]

1600 or 1680. I wish the league wars weren't so laggy and when you conquest so much or are in a hug box it kills off the mood of the game. Nothing to colonise, rivals too powerful to fight because they allied all your neighbours, playing tall is hard when you have a gov cap.

 

[Maxwell Tornado]

The end date, duh.