Publicado originalmente por Mad Doctor:

Publicado originalmente por Robert Gromaks:

I don't understand people who ask for a Victoria 3.
Victoria 1 and 2 were games of great complexity and a real gas factory requiring patience and mastery.
And you want the current Paradox Studio, which has only been producing "Cookies Clickers" since 2014, to transform Victoria into a "Cookie Clicker"?

Don't ask the devil.
Let good things die in peace. :mjolner:

But they announced a third one already, did they not?

No they didn't, PDX has been working on a secret new game that they will reveal in May.

There is literally no reason to make EU5 but Victoria 3. All we need is exiting menu.

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Publicado originalmente por D-Coke:

Surprised that people actually believe and buy into the bull that Johan & Co keep feeding the masses year after year after year. They are quite comfortable on their repeating cycle of releasing shoddy DLC's, then fix some of the bugs in a half assed manner and then repeat the cycle and giving new projects to new interns at new studios so that they can milk the masses some more and all this packaged in a glorified PR stunt a la Pdox.

Really wished Pdox had direct competition to blow them out of the water and make way for newcomers since their "Golden Age" has come to an overdue end.

This is such a good post. 100% Agree. PDX monopoly has gotten out of hand!

This quite intriguing to be honest. So many armchair game dev on the forums explaining how easy to make better game than what PDX has been doing and yet there are not much if any competition.

It might be good to start and recruit in Steam forum a team of dev and businessmen to get this competition starting before hell freeze over.

Make EU5.

Publicado originalmente por Camel:

There is literally no reason to make EU5 but Victoria 3. All we need is exiting menu.

EU4 is stale as hell and dated. Everything needs to be re-imagined and refreshed. We need EU5, not another crappy DLC that nobody cares about.

You want an idea for the future? Of this game and other games you'll make?

Stop releasing so many expansions. Release a complete game (which, taking EU4 for example, should include at least half, if not more, of the expansions you've released) and then release maybe 2 or 3 major expansions with real new stuff, huge content added, and not some crumbs you've taken from the base game to sell it later.
You have, today, almost $400 of DLC released. This is insane. At no point I want to even think about buying it, because I know that even spending 10 times what the base game costs, I will never have a complete game.

Second point, if you ever release a EU5, it needs a good graphical rework. Make armies look like armes, make the map more alive and detailed, and why not implement a real battle system on which we'd have control over. Bring strategy in all parts of a strategy game.
I'm not telling you to make something as good as Total War (even tho you probably could) but at least something we would take part of, and would make the result of a battle more about our own skills than some kind of RNG

Developers add Russian localization. It is not possible to play. Constant conflicts with localization mods. Graphics: Have you ever thought about creating Europa Universal 5 based on graphics in Crusader Kings 3?

Publicado originalmente por VSTurk:

"No major feature reworks while we still have lots of bugs" lol

I, in my case, don't want reworks of already paid features, I want additions.

Definitely NOT buying any more DLC's for EU4.
Release a good new game instead WITH those DLC's included in base game.

Publicado originalmente por Freakstyler:

Definitely NOT buying any more DLC's for EU4.
Release a good new game instead WITH those DLC's included in base game.

Will never happen. They will sell more DLC's and if they release EU5, they will strip it off.

Publicado originalmente por AgeOfBacon:

You want an idea for the future? Of this game and other games you'll make?

Stop releasing so many expansions. Release a complete game (which, taking EU4 for example, should include at least half, if not more, of the expansions you've released) and then release maybe 2 or 3 major expansions with real new stuff, huge content added, and not some crumbs you've taken from the base game to sell it later.
You have, today, almost $400 of DLC released. This is insane. At no point I want to even think about buying it, because I know that even spending 10 times what the base game costs, I will never have a complete game.

Second point, if you ever release a EU5, it needs a good graphical rework. Make armies look like armes, make the map more alive and detailed, and why not implement a real battle system on which we'd have control over. Bring strategy in all parts of a strategy game.
I'm not telling you to make something as good as Total War (even tho you probably could) but at least something we would take part of, and would make the result of a battle more about our own skills than some kind of RNG

You do realise it's impossible for them to add so much detail to any games they've made because their engine is literally outdated by a good 15 years. There is a reason why every single PDX game starts to lag after a few hours of playtime, it's because the engine, so asking PDX to add more stuff is simply a drain on the engine, which can't even properly run a vanilla game or 1.0 version, let alone later patches and additions.

They need to overhaul the engine completely, invest a couple of million € into building a proper engine then we can talk about additions to the game. As long as that doesn't happen it's pointless to talk about any games.

How about a DLC that adds a better game engine?

Publicado originalmente por dTox N1ck:

Why is everyone so concerned with EU5? The game still holds up and plays phenomenally.

It's dated and stale. I want to come back to it, but I just can't get anymore out of it.

EU4 was dated when it was released.

The game is already very old and it's starting to show on ALL fronts. So I say, END IT ALREADY! Stop milking us and put this ancient get rich quick scheme to sleep now because we've had enough!