>EU4 is officially more popular than EU5 which literally came out a few months agoWhat went wrong?
>>738978265We wuz kangz
EU4 is already normalfag adjacent enough to have broader appeal, so there wasn't similar normalfag explosions as with Crusader Kings 3 and Hearts of Iron 4 where the prior installments were only played by some nerds.
>>738978265I never played V, but Ive realized that I find "realisim" tedious. Maybe other people found that out too?
>>738978265Now subtract Anbennar
PDX have a very bad tendency to release half finished games that need about 10 dlc's before they become better than their predecessor, EUV is no different. People just want to play a finished game and EUIV is just that while EUV is not
>>738978265Eu4 players don't actually like playing grand strategy games.
>>738978265I like that it actually tries to simulate things instead of just conjuring things with mana but it feels very unfinished.
>>738978265Nothing went wrong, this is simply the danger of selling your soul to the DLC jew, you bloat a single title excessively and end up creating a product that the sequel cannot possibly compete with.Its a short term unsustainable business strategy that will destroy Paradox.
>>738978265Paradox games all have this issue with their DLC policy. By the time the next game releases, the previous one will have so much shit added to it via expansion packs, that the next game is basically always a downgrade for at least a few years IRL.
>>738978265because paradox sells their games piece meal through an ungodly amount of DLCs, in other words EU5 has less content so all the whales will stick with the previous version that has the various dlcs they paid for, but as time goes on and paradox releases more dlc for EU5 its likely you will start to see a gradual shift in player numbers
>>738978265What went wrong is Paradox ignored the reason EA doesn't want to make a sequel to Sims 4.
>>738980314>>738980152ThisI still didn't bother to even launch CK3 and it looks like I have a base game from somewhere. Realistically it's not really possible to make a brand new sequel from scratch which can compete with a previous game you developed for over a decade with dlcs and updates.Paradox will have to make new games in new settings with this sort of policy and not sequels. Like Fantasy Stellaris or trying to make Rome work again
>>738978265>game drops>gets tons of dlc>have an almost over complete game>new one drops>it doesnt have all the content the last one had if you include all the dlc>people move to older one>new one gets tons of dlc>people play the new one>another one drops>same storyAlways happens with these kind of games.
