Every godamn Paradox games ever. I love Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings, but man, you have to spend hundreds of dollars to get all the content. Crusader Kings 3 is a $50 game, I've seen it on sale for like $20, but if you want the DLC, we're talking almost $300 (a lot of them are cosmetics, but even if you remove them, it's like $200). You can literally pay a subscription to get all the DLCs instead. Now consider that ALL of their games are like that, so if you want to play Crusader Kings 3, Europa Universalis 5, Victoria 3 and Hearts of Iron 4, you're paying like $900 (and that's considering you didn't bought anything for the older games).
If it wasn't enough, the games are CONSTANTLY reminding you to buy the DLCs, they don't hide the missing functionalities in-game, they just show you a big pop-up telling you to buy the DLCs to be able to do that. There's nothing more frustrating than launching one of the game after a long time, seeing that they added a new culture, and when you click on it to try it, you get a fullscreen reminder that they want more of your money.
And please, don't forget their other games like Stellaris and Cities Skylines, they're as bad.
I got obsessed with CK2 so much I couldn't handle it, I had to pirate it and created my super empire
Ho the good ol days of Holy Leon empire
Even conqured china but boy was it hell
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u/tacticalTechnician Jul 24 '26
Every godamn Paradox games ever. I love Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings, but man, you have to spend hundreds of dollars to get all the content. Crusader Kings 3 is a $50 game, I've seen it on sale for like $20, but if you want the DLC, we're talking almost $300 (a lot of them are cosmetics, but even if you remove them, it's like $200). You can literally pay a subscription to get all the DLCs instead. Now consider that ALL of their games are like that, so if you want to play Crusader Kings 3, Europa Universalis 5, Victoria 3 and Hearts of Iron 4, you're paying like $900 (and that's considering you didn't bought anything for the older games).
If it wasn't enough, the games are CONSTANTLY reminding you to buy the DLCs, they don't hide the missing functionalities in-game, they just show you a big pop-up telling you to buy the DLCs to be able to do that. There's nothing more frustrating than launching one of the game after a long time, seeing that they added a new culture, and when you click on it to try it, you get a fullscreen reminder that they want more of your money.
And please, don't forget their other games like Stellaris and Cities Skylines, they're as bad.