This game is nothing but genuine pain. There is nothing to gain from playing this game, not for anyone. The way this game and how it functions is designed, and I say this with well over one thousand hours of play time, to cause recurring pain for the player. The day you decide to play Hearts of Iron 4 is the day you decide to sell your soul, because there is no coming back. The achievements in this game are designed to impose pain towards the poor soul who decides to complete them. Trial and error only begins to describe the grueling process of completing some of the hardest achievements- where hard is not even the right word. The achievements are not challenging, they are simply painful because of the way the game works. Eventually the moment will arrive, when you complete an achievement. The rewarding feeling is like none other, and it pulls you back in. It pulls you back in by manipulating your mind, for once you complete an achivement, you start thinking that the game is actually good. I know this, because it has all happened to me. Looking back, I know that what I believed in those moments were blind lies, but I never realise it in the moments themselves. I only do when it's too late, when I'm already on to the next achievement. This is the most dangerous part of it all. The game creates a vicious cycle of repeating pain and suffering, in which it traps you in, as I have been trapped in for one thousand hours. Thousand week reich - thousand hour hell. This game is not a joke. This game should never be played by anyone. I wish it only upon my greatest enemies, to find this game intriguing enough to play. With the announcement of the new DLC, I hope and pray for the innocents to be spared during the coming marketing campaign. As for me, I will be there when it releases, as I have been for the last two. I will buy it, I will play it, and nothing will change. I am trapped and will remain so for another thousand hours. Maybe one day, liberation will come to those who seek it, but by then I fear, I will already be dead.