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Posted November 23, 2022
The wait is no more. Paradox Development Studio’s fourth installment of the award-winning Europa Universalis series is now available on GOG! And during our Black Friday sale you can get it with an -80% discount!

Europa Universalis IV is an absolute iconic classic in a historic, grand strategy simulator genre. It gives you control of a nation through four dramatic centuries where you rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.



But of course we are not stopping on just the base game. 60 of Europa Universalis IV DLCs are also now available on GOG with discounts up to -50%! You can expand this incredible title with expansion packs, immersion and music packs, new units, additional content and more!



We are fully aware that 60 is a lot - but worry not! If you’d like to have the ultimate Europa experience, our GOG GALAXY client allows for incredibly easy management of any extra content to our titles including DLCs.

Just head over to our website and download GOG GALAXY. When within the client, all available DLCs can be found on the right side of the game’s card. After purchasing them, just go to your “Owned games” and select the game which you bought the DLCs for. All of them can be then found in the “Extras” tab on your owned game page.

You don’t need to do anything more. When installing a game, all available DLCs from your account will be downloaded by default. However if you’d like to have some of them not installed with the game, just click the configuration button (right of the “Install”), go to “Manage installation” then “Configure…” and then “DLC” tab. There, just hand select installments you’d like to automatically download with the base game.

And that’s just one of the many cool features GOG GALAXY offers! We are constantly improving our client and highly recommend it for the best store, library and gaming experience.

But back to Europa! You’ve waited long enough and the quest for world domination awaits to be fulfilled. From grand voyages of discovery to religious wars to revolutionary governments, the entire history of the early modern world waits for you to rewrite it. Make use of our -80% deal on Europa Universalis IV and prepare to spend countless hours in it.
Posted November 23, 2022
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SHADOW-XIII: Here we go again, people will complain about DLCs, because they should be adding stuff for free for 10 years (the game came out nearly 10 years ago).
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BitMaster_1980: Hey! Don't try reason and that stuff with the whining mouthbreathers.
I see you're projecting your traits on others again.

It's not about dollar amount. Or that there is DLC. It's about its being HORRIBLY organized. I'm not going to spend hours to figure out what to buy and not to buy. I'm instead going to play a game I already have. For a tiny little $5 'DLC bundle', why are the components even available separately? This is a new release here, there's no "legacy to let people complete what they bought already separately" to do. The Free DLCs, just include in the main game purchase! (Users can still toggle separately for install).

Why aren't they named meaningfully so you know if it's gameplay or pointless game-hampering "American First People's national units are harder to identify because they've been given unique art" or "not even related to the game, here are random ebooks".

Why didn't it release with a core gameplay expansion bundle to get people started?

Or, hell, even a page that has a chart of what's what so people don't have to click through multiple pages (per item) to figure out out?

Your failure even to begin to try to understand what issues people have is rather concerning.
Post edited November 23, 2022 by mqstout
Posted November 23, 2022
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Atreides38: Probably no chance that this release will have GOG Connect offer, right?
GOG Connect offers were time-limited and are no longer supported.
Posted November 23, 2022
How does it compare to Europa Universalis III?
Posted November 23, 2022
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IronArcturus: How does it compare to Europa Universalis III?
It's newer...
Posted November 23, 2022
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P-E-S: o.O Paradox and their silly mountains of DLC.
Anyone know which DLC is a must have? I'm not buying all DLC for sure.

Edit: So I found this guide that might help with what DLC to buy. Talk about making it chore to buy a game Paradox. lol
https://www.pcgamesn.com/europa-universalis-iv/eu4-dlc-guide
Post edited November 23, 2022 by Syphon72
Posted November 23, 2022
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mqstout: It's not about dollar amount. Or that there is DLC. It's about its being HORRIBLY organized. I'm not going to spend hours to figure out what to buy and not to buy. I'm instead going to play a game I already have. For a tiny little $5 'DLC bundle', why are the components even available separately? This is a new release here, there's no "legacy to let people complete what they bought already separately" to do. The Free DLCs, just include in the main game purchase! (Users can still toggle separately for install).

Why aren't they named meaningfully so you know if it's gameplay or pointless game-hampering "American First People's national units are harder to identify because they've been given unique art" or "not even related to the game, here are random ebooks".

Why didn't it release with a core gameplay expansion bundle to get people started?

Or, hell, even a page that has a chart of what's what so people don't have to click through multiple pages (per item) to figure out out?

Your failure even to begin to try to understand what issues people have is rather concerning.
And that's pretty much what I said in the part of my post you conveniently forgot to quote. And going to the whiny posts above me, the complains are practically exclusively about the (to use your own quote) "dollar amount".

Your failure to read a person's post to the end is rather concerning.

Edit: Obnoxious forum decided to have a hiccup when I tried to post...
Post edited November 23, 2022 by BitMaster_1980
Posted November 23, 2022
Europa Universalis IV is a great game that deserves a place on GOG. But it will be hard to beat the Humble Bundle promo from last spring (everything except the last DLC for 15 €).
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I'm interested, but only if they release a complete bundle with all the DLC at a reasonable price. I'm certainly not interested in being nickeled and dimed for content that likely should have been included in the base game. It looks like it's structured so that even the DLC has DLC since there are multiple expansion packs that have the same names but break out unit types and features as separate purchases. I'm not interested in having to spend an hour figuring out what DLC does what, especially when they are this poorly structured. That's a shame.
Posted November 23, 2022
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It looked interesting, but after realizing there is no "Complete Edition" and with no idea which DLCs are important, it suddenly stopped to look interesting for me...
Posted November 23, 2022
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ciemnogrodzianin: It looked interesting, but after realizing there is no "Complete Edition" and with no idea which DLCs are important, it suddenly stopped to look interesting for me...
Well that's easy. Just consoooooom product and buy all of them, duh!
Posted November 23, 2022
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mqstout: It's not about dollar amount. Or that there is DLC. It's about its being HORRIBLY organized. I'm not going to spend hours to figure out what to buy and not to buy. I'm instead going to play a game I already have. For a tiny little $5 'DLC bundle', why are the components even available separately? This is a new release here, there's no "legacy to let people complete what they bought already separately" to do.
Exactly. There is no cross-install-play with Steam and GOG parts. We can't combine chunks bought here and there together and play it (yes, theoretically it's possible, but a handful pain-begging people don't count). Hence a consumer-friendly course of action would be a complete DLC collection like for the third installment of the Europa Universalis series. And if they publish additional DLCs after the GOG launch, they can release those new one by one.

Bollocks to that! The simplest solution would be a GOG launch edition with everything included; how high the price may be, the most important thing is the choice! Don't let me plow through the list, I'm not on the hunt for America's next top hooker! Hence with it!
Posted November 23, 2022
I'll join the majority here, I won't waste my time checking 60 DLCs to know their worth/content, and anyway the total sum even with sales is too expensive, absolutely, and relatively to similar games. Also, after years they should bundle everything in a Complete Edition, this method is just profitable for them I guess, not for us.

By the way, Paradox is now for me on a sort of black list, I read different game news websites but never click on Paradox articles because I'm fed up with their tactics.
Posted November 23, 2022
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Sternitzky: Bollocks to that! The simplest solution would be a GOG launch edition with everything included; how high the price may be, the most important thing is the choice! Don't let me plow through the list, I'm not on the hunt for America's next top hooker! Hence with it!
Price-wise this might be a bit too hard on a lot of people. But the relevant gameplay stuff (removing ebooks and separate soundtracks and whatnot) needs to be available with less fiddling. I don't have a good overview of how expensive that would be once you remove duplicates of incestious DLC but this really needs something on the lines of:

"Here are two or three DLC bundles and with that you have everything gameplay-relevant except the last expansion (link to that). Also, we are no longer doing the fiddly DLC crap and from now on we are following the Stellaris-model and have one big expansion and one smaller pack each year".

Make sure that is true and feature it prominently on both the announcement thread and the game card.
Posted November 23, 2022
Wonder if they will do the EU4 DLC subscription here like on Steam...but I guess it would be easier just to drop DLC the usual way...
Posted November 23, 2022
Glad to see this is finally on GOG, I enjoy EU4 so this is a purchase for me. However, my favorite Paradox game is Crusader Kings II, so I'd love to see that finally come to GOG. How about it guys?
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