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What are your expectations for the EU5 release?

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Snekposter said:
I wouldn't know about democratic for Chiang given his ah... issues relinquishing power, especially considering the reign of terror he established after being forced to flee to Taiwan. While you can argue that he laid the groundwork, that was only after he was forced to retreat and confront his prior fuckups in how he ruled, and after that you would need a successful Taiwanese conquest of the mainland to remove Communism from the picture given his paranoia of Communist agents under everyone's beds.
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I was suggesting the opposite, with the end of World War 2 the Republic of China was beginning a democratic transition including a new constitution and holding elections, that was cut short by the resumption of the Civil War and retreat to Taiwan and veered hard into anti-Communist dictatorship. So it doesn't fit the model of "choose one of three options at the start the game."
 
The only way to get around the whole nazi glorification thing is to make the player watch a 3 hr documentry on the holocaust and failures of the german war economy every time they click play on Germany.
 
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foreman 89 said:
Do you think paradox will change the new DLC based on these complaints? - https://www.reddit.com/r/paradoxpla...n_youtuber_and_historian_criticizing_the_new/
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Here is the Hearts of Iron 4 game director's response to this criticism.

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The Foxtrot said:
That, mixed with "Stop being a bunch of sensitive faggots, this is a game, this is not real life, either play it and have fun or don't".
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Thing is 4 years ago they would likely have placated the redditors and other usual suspects.
But I think this is a combination of devs realising the mob doesn't have as much power as previously believed, that there's good money in content that some people think is too pro nazi Germany, and paradox needs a win after a lot of big projects being failures
 
General Emílio Médici said:
There is even a perfect little incident to show it off: FDR's Court Packing Plan.

After he was elected he passed a bunch of shit and created a bunch of garbage as part of his New Deal. A lot of it amounted to just welfare with shiny names and a bunch of them also had serious legal trouble with the rest of the US Law, Government and Constitution. So people sued and challenged it, and eventually they went to the SCOTUS and it was declared unconstitutional/illegal/unlawful. Due to how it all went down the programs were started in late 1932, and challenges began in 1933 but the real results began to show only in 1935 and later. By the time the game starts he has lost a bunch of rulings (including losing 3 cases in 9-0 rulings in a single day in 1935) and is pissed off.

His reaction, much like that of Democrats of today when the court rules based on law and constitution instead of "common good" was to throw a bitch fit and announce a plan to restructure the entire thing to make SCOTUS do as he wanted. Not just to add new justices, oh no, he was gonna do some real bulshit like adding one new judge for every 10 years a supreme judge was in power once they turned 70 and didn't retire and adding a whole new lower court. He went to his propaganda broadcast Fireside Chat to shill this and present it as a new and better way to do things of course.

Tl;Dr it failed, and likely cost the dems the 1938 midterms as a lot of his own party Good Old Boys were quite against such plans.

The fact this isn't shown in the game at all despite how tense it could have gone if the cripple hadn't backed down is a disservice to HoI4.
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On the other hand, SCOTUS was way more compliant towards FDR's wishes going forwards, so you could argue it somewhat succeeded by scaring the shit out the court.

byuuWasTaken said:
Victoria 3 will have its first Steam free weekend of its existence (or the first one that I've noticed, at least).
They chose a very peculiar in-game screenshot for the thumbnail of the YouTube announcement:
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Well, if it wasn't given for free how else would Marx get ahold of it without begging for another handout from Engels?
 
I randomly remembered this blast from the past. It's from 2017 so around the same time as when Vic 3 got rebooted into the piece of shit we got.
 
I couldn't stop myself making this after seeing the new Europa Universalis 5 screenshot:
 
General Emílio Médici said:
EU5 in general is looking pretty fucking good bros I am starting to believe
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After CK3 and Vic 3 I thought I would never buy or have hype for any new paradox projects but Johan managed to pull me back in. It's been nice to see the mood around EU5 in this thread change from initially being pessimistic about it, seeing it as what will be another shitty sequel, to now being a lot more optimistic as Johan has shown that this will actually be the most in depth paradox game, blending both EU and Viccy together which I am happy about since EU4 and Vic 2 are my two favorite paradox games. The future is bright!
 
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Blackstar said:
After CK3 and Vic 3 I thought I would never buy or have hype for any new paradox projects but Johan managed to pull me back in. It's been nice to see the mood around EU5 in this thread chance from initially being pessimistic about it, seeing it as what will be another shitty sequel, to now being a lot more optimistic as Johan has shown that this will actually be the most in depth paradox game, blending both EU and Viccy together which I am happy about since EU4 and Vic 2 are my two favorite paradox games. The future is bright!
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I think it is because Tinto is bothering to actually commiserate with the community long before they announce the damn thing as well as being clearly developed on older, more complex design, and essentially having learned from the mistakes of the past. You can really see the Imperator DNA, from the increased character aspect, to the high granularity of the map and the total lack of mana. Having been the number 1 Imperator apologist, I am very pleased.
 
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