West_of_West

I agree. Strategy game do occupy a weird space, EU4 was a go to game for me for like 10 years. I appreciated the support for the game and did buy the DLC that changed mechanics (skipping most flavour packs). I remember people complaining about janky mechanics without DLC, but I know others would rollback to previous versions.

Funny thing is that despite playing EU4 for years and really enjoying the game. I feel little urge to upgrade to EU5.

The only DLC thing I hate is when there is DLC for sale on the same day of launch. That should be in the base game.

But the base game isn’t that expensive and most expansions are unnecessary game play wise. Even when I played paradox games I didn’t buy all the DLC

Girls with Slingshots, it ended over a decade ago, but I still love the characters. I realized if the author dies and stops renewing the website it could disappear. As a foundational part of my early twenties I couldn’t accept that.

Last year I bought a hard copy of my favorite webcomic in case the website goes down.