EA is the worst (American) company of 2012!

One thing I like about paradox is there support for modders, they added a new value in the files that allows other religions to be played.

Community support is what make games great, can we agree on that?

Solidarity!!

And we're all happy about their success, right? I mean the gameplay has always been great, but the graphics have been somewhat lacking. They have the money to make those awesome looking graphics of DW and CKII now.

On the topic, I think the gaming industry have been somewhat ruined by the huge profits one can make in the industry. This attracts investors and other douchebags, who have no idea about what they're doing or the consequences of their actions and who just want to squeeze every penny out of a game.

The problem I think CKII had with not being able to play as everyone is that it focuses on the Feudal system, which is reflected in the game code. Theocracies and Republics don't work this way, and are therefore excluded anyway. Not sure how Muslim society worked back then, but it might be quite different as well.

i bet they re going to sell a dlc just for muslim nations

Which isn't much of a surprise, if you ask me. I don't know if you've ever played the Civ III map of TETurkhan, but that starts in around 3000BC with many nations on the entire world map. This means Japan will know about England in 2000BC. The same would happen with CKII if it used the entire world map. It wouldn't take long before players would invade Europe with China, or even the Aztec if the whole world map were to be used. Not to mention developing would take even longer, seeing as I don't think the feudal system was used world wide.

They're busy with the Ruler Designer DLC right now (which was asked for by the community, before you all start crying about corporate greed and such), and I wouldn't be surprised they'd indeed make an expansion that would allow you to play as anyone. I'm not sure if that'd be DLC, seeing as it would mean quite a large change to the game.

Also, if we're talking about moneygrabbing companies, why do I never hear companies like Blizzard, who ask people to pay a full game price for all WoW expansions, plus a monthly fee just to be able to play the fucking game?

Jesus chrit have you guys never played Crusader kings before, it is not a game that simulates the world, it is a dynasty simulator not like Victoria or europa universalis. That's why thy made Victoria and eu3

Exactly my thoughts. The game is meant to simulate feudal(Christian) Europe and not how China worked at the same time. This is why the exclude the everything outside Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Well, seeing as in that time period, most parts of the world were isolated from eachother, many countries would be pretty boring to play. Playing as Native (Meso-)Americans is already quite boring in EU3 until you get to the early 1500's, in a period before that it'd be even more boring.

Depends on the DLC. Anyone can tell making the ending a DLC is a bad idea. Paradox' DLC's, however, usually involve minor aesthetics, which indeed is not a problem (until you try playing online, where everyone has to have the exact same checksum...I'm not sure if the DLC's mess those up, though). However, DLC's also allow developers to bring out half assed work, and then claim they'll fix it in DLC, which is unacceptable.

That last sentence indicates some sarcasm (or it's just a bad comparison, as cars and servers/games are hardly comparable), I suppose. Anyway, I'll assume it is for now.
So, how about SCII? You don't have to pay a monthly fee for that, even though they have servers running. Not to mention millions of players play WoW. Each of them pay what, €15,- a month? Servers just don't cost that much money.