Should I wait for a sale?

[RustyNail]

Hi, so basically, I found out about this game a few days ago when I was looking up strategy games ( recently became obsessed lol ) because mobile ones weren't doing it for me. I watched a view videos and have grown to want the game alot. Sadly I missed the summer sale and don't have too much money spare ( just enough for the game and maybe a few dlcs ), and I am now wondering whether I should wait for the next sale or buy it now. I would be fine waiting if it wasn't so far away though.

So should I buy it?

P.S, I am also wanting some of the dlcs like Together For Victory and Waking The Tiger. If I do get it should I wait to buy them?

Edit: I think ill just wait for a sale on the base game, and if i like it ill get some dlcs.
Thx for input

[Civiliangineer gaming]

I would personally reccomend you to buy it during sale because the price drops significantly and if you're looking forward to DLC's always buy them during sales, they are not worth the full price. The game itself is nice and fun but it will take time to properly learn how to play and fully enjoy it. Don't buy it if you value your time.

[TasteDasRainbow]

keep in mind that phone games to hearts of iron is a *massive* jump in content difference. try watching some youtube videos of gameplay first to see if you're actually going to enjoy engaging with all the things that happen in that video, and not just a few highlights that don't explain how the player got to that point. This game in mosts respects is more real-time 4x than rts, so the pacing, level of responsibility, etc. is enhanced.

That being said, there are lots of great 3rd party sites you can buy steam keys from, that often carry over from the best sales, because when those sales go live those keys get bought in bulk.

As far as dlc, videos can show you a lot about the features you might be getting, and you can decide what is worth to you from there. You can also try the subscription for a month to try everything out yourself, but that will cost some $5 iirc.

[|H|H| Fr3ddi3]

Ultimately, I just don't see the reason why you need to buy the game right this second, it is 100% guarantee'd that HOI4 WILL go on sale again sooner or later and when it does, it'll be dirt cheap, buy it then if you are still interested.

I'm not trying to be a ♥♥♥♥, but the game is 8 years old at this point and you managed to last this long without it, a few weeks or months is not going to make much of a difference to anything but your wallet, this is not like call of duty where you need to play it early, learn the maps and make progression though weapon unlocks to 'compete' with other players, here you play at your leisure.

So yeah, wait till a sale, buy ONLY the base game to see if you actually do like it or not, if you do? great, you can buy 1 month subscription some time later to play all the DLC's and see if you feel any of them are worth getting, if they are? great buy them on the next sale ... if the answer is no to any of those questions ... you've at least saved as much money as you can short of not buying the game at all.

[TheJadagames]

u can always check G 2 A as well, 6$ rn

[KharnTheKhan]

Originally posted by RustyNail:

Hi, so basically, I found out about this game a few days ago when I was looking up strategy games ( recently became obsessed lol ) because mobile ones weren't doing it for me. I watched a view videos and have grown to want the game alot. Sadly I missed the summer sale and don't have too much money spare ( just enough for the game and maybe a few dlcs ), and I am now wondering whether I should wait for the next sale or buy it now. I would be fine waiting if it wasn't so far away though.

So should I buy it?

P.S, I am also wanting some of the dlcs like Together For Victory and Waking The Tiger. If I do get it should I wait to buy them?

gamivo has it for cheap and as you can see steam doesnt block its name so that means steam hasnt determined it as shady

[CaptainSpacetime]

yeah wait for sale.

but if you're coming from mobile rts remember hoi4 is a grand strategy/4x ish game so pretty drastically different.

[RustyNail]

Originally posted by TasteDasRainbow:

keep in mind that phone games to hearts of iron is a *massive* jump in content difference. try watching some youtube videos of gameplay first to see if you're actually going to enjoy engaging with all the things that happen in that video, and not just a few highlights that don't explain how the player got to that point. This game in mosts respects is more real-time 4x than rts, so the pacing, level of responsibility, etc. is enhanced.

That being said, there are lots of great 3rd party sites you can buy steam keys from, that often carry over from the best sales, because when those sales go live those keys get bought in bulk.

As far as dlc, videos can show you a lot about the features you might be getting, and you can decide what is worth to you from there. You can also try the subscription for a month to try everything out yourself, but that will cost some $5 iirc.

Yeah ive actually watched loads of videos about the game, learnt stuff about it and managed to grasp the general idea of what to do and how to do that.

Originally posted by |H|H| Fr3ddi3:

Ultimately, I just don't see the reason why you need to buy the game right this second, it is 100% guarantee'd that HOI4 WILL go on sale again sooner or later and when it does, it'll be dirt cheap, buy it then if you are still interested.

I'm not trying to be a ♥♥♥♥, but the game is 8 years old at this point and you managed to last this long without it, a few weeks or months is not going to make much of a difference to anything but your wallet, this is not like call of duty where you need to play it early, learn the maps and make progression though weapon unlocks to 'compete' with other players, here you play at your leisure.

So yeah, wait till a sale, buy ONLY the base game to see if you actually do like it or not, if you do? great, you can buy 1 month subscription some time later to play all the DLC's and see if you feel any of them are worth getting, if they are? great buy them on the next sale ... if the answer is no to any of those questions ... you've at least saved as much money as you can short of not buying the game at all.

yeah i think i wont buy the dlcs straight away, ive also noticed that the dlcs change some focus trees aswell, so itd be better to try the base game first.