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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 25, 2022
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Lesser Blight Elemental: This is where GOG Connect could still be handy, because even if I wanted to come back to EU4 and buy more DLCs, I ain't starting over on GOG. Same will go for CK2, HOI4 etc, when and if they show up here.
Handy for "owners" on Scheme, sure. But why should GOG reward people for buying there? The next user corrected that Connect wouldn't apply to DLCs but please humor me anyway...You would like GOG Connect to be active because you bought game+DLCs on Scheme, and if you want to come back and buy more DLCs on Scheme, GOG should provide you with GOG copies of all this too even though you spent a grand total of $0.00 on this game or its DLCs on GOG? Ending the GOG Connect was probably the one good decision GOG made in several years!

As for the game in general being discussed here, I am sure it is quality somewhere in there once one finds the magic combination of barren base game+DLCs without repeating content from DLCs. But I can't be bothered to find it. This release reminds me a lot of Talisman, Relayer, and some others...my eyes glaze over looking at all the DLC. It doesn't make me want to buy it all. It's an eyesore. Even if DRM-free, I don't think such games are really the ideal releases for GOG to be striving for, as so many of us prefer a complete finished product, not a "service."
Posted November 25, 2022
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Syphon72: . i remember the good old days when PC gamers would crap on consoles for having DLC . Man have things change.
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SHADOW-XIII: do you remember "good old times" when game would just come out and never get updated
no patches provided
no extra features added
for 10 years

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oh wait, you can do it, just buy base game >_>
Yes. back in the old days they would release the game, fix the bugs and then you could enjoy playing the game.

You can't buy the EU IV base game and be done with it because they keep releasing patches. Every single patch while fixing some bugs always introduces new ones. So even if you'd revert back to some old version all you accomplish is trading new bugs for old ones. There is no version that actually works. So simply no. It's like you have never played EU IV.

Having "extra features" means that you pay to be beta tester for their new demo version. That's extra work and frustration from your part, not that you'd get any gameplay features. Like someone alreay said, you get new buttons that don't work. It would be PC equivalent of mogile cash-shop, IF it would be bugfree and working otherwise.
Posted November 26, 2022
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Clownski_: We hear you - we've just added a couple of guides with our recommendations regarding the DLCs to the promo page. Check them out!
Are you sure you wanted to recommend the "Cradle of Civilization Content Pack" as an "adds more depth"-DLC and not the "Cradle of Civilization Expansion"!??
Posted November 26, 2022
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Lesser Blight Elemental: This is where GOG Connect could still be handy, because even if I wanted to come back to EU4 and buy more DLCs, I ain't starting over on GOG. Same will go for CK2, HOI4 etc, when and if they show up here.
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rjbuffchix: Handy for "owners" on Scheme, sure. But why should GOG reward people for buying there? The next user corrected that Connect wouldn't apply to DLCs but please humor me anyway...You would like GOG Connect to be active because you bought game+DLCs on Scheme, and if you want to come back and buy more DLCs on Scheme, GOG should provide you with GOG copies of all this too even though you spent a grand total of $0.00 on this game or its DLCs on GOG? Ending the GOG Connect was probably the one good decision GOG made in several years!
I was thinking of a limited-time offer on GOG, the point being to get existing owners of the game + some DLC to come buy the rest here. Obviously GOG wouldn't gain anything by just duplicating people's Steam DLC indefinitely.
Posted November 28, 2022
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SHADOW-XIII: do you remember "good old times" when game would just come out and never get updated
no patches provided
no extra features added
for 10 years

/s

oh wait, you can do it, just buy base game >_>
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Ennson: Yes. back in the old days they would release the game, fix the bugs and then you could enjoy playing the game.

You can't buy the EU IV base game and be done with it because they keep releasing patches. Every single patch while fixing some bugs always introduces new ones. So even if you'd revert back to some old version all you accomplish is trading new bugs for old ones. There is no version that actually works. So simply no. It's like you have never played EU IV.

Having "extra features" means that you pay to be beta tester for their new demo version. That's extra work and frustration from your part, not that you'd get any gameplay features. Like someone alreay said, you get new buttons that don't work. It would be PC equivalent of mogile cash-shop, IF it would be bugfree and working otherwise.
maybe not on GoG but on Steam you just select to play with old version and you don't have to test anything
Posted November 28, 2022
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Ennson: Yes. back in the old days they would release the game, fix the bugs and then you could enjoy playing the game.

You can't buy the EU IV base game and be done with it because they keep releasing patches. Every single patch while fixing some bugs always introduces new ones. So even if you'd revert back to some old version all you accomplish is trading new bugs for old ones. There is no version that actually works. So simply no. It's like you have never played EU IV.

Having "extra features" means that you pay to be beta tester for their new demo version. That's extra work and frustration from your part, not that you'd get any gameplay features. Like someone alreay said, you get new buttons that don't work. It would be PC equivalent of mogile cash-shop, IF it would be bugfree and working otherwise.
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SHADOW-XIII: maybe not on GoG but on Steam you just select to play with old version and you don't have to test anything
What part of selecting old version enables all old bugs you didn't quite understand mate? Also, if you aren't familiar with Paradox or EU IV then please don't suggest absurdities, ok. It's good to know that you're familiar with Steam though. So thanks.
Posted November 28, 2022
I had time to kill tonight and wanted to sit on the couch with the laptop instead of at my gaming computer (and the husband was using the TV), so I copy/pasted a bunch of stuff from GOG and the Paradox wiki into a table:

https://airtable.com/shrmbKbAcFdpGdQDU

I also looked up reviews of the game at various places and they're not so flattering. And that's excluding pricing and sales issues! I already am not keen on "grand strategy" games (even though I wish I were or should be...). This is a huge, huge pass for me.

Paradox: I'll still buy Cities: Skylines when you bring it here. Really! But I'm not going to do this, since it's really not my genre -- I've tried too many of them (especially including yours) to try again, and the reviews on this one are too not-so-hot for me to try another when even seasoned players say it's not a good entry.

(based on sale prices)
Base Game: 8
All major expansions: 130
Also minor expansions: 168
Anything that has any game play: 170
If you add in the cosmetics (I've removed duplicate/bundled): 214
And also music: 231.

Regular prices, well: 40/275/330/335/422/452!

Editing in an addendum: The vast majority of the cosmetic DLC are things I wouldn't even want. I hated the "civ specific unit art" content that modders put into Civ4. It made the game worse rather than better. When you can't tell what unit is what because they all look wildly different... Of course, grand strategy games usually don't care abut units other than an abstracted abstracted abstracted [not a typo] pile of numbers you'd have to look at anyway.
Post edited November 28, 2022 by mqstout
Posted November 28, 2022
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Lesser Blight Elemental: I was thinking of a limited-time offer on GOG, the point being to get existing owners of the game + some DLC to come buy the rest here. Obviously GOG wouldn't gain anything by just duplicating people's Steam DLC indefinitely.
Fair enough, cheers for the response.
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mqstout: I also looked up reviews of the game at various places and they're not so flattering. And that's excluding pricing and sales issues! I already am not keen on "grand strategy" games (even though I wish I were or should be...). This is a huge, huge pass for me.

Paradox: I'll still buy Cities: Skylines when you bring it here. Really! But I'm not going to do this, since it's really not my genre -- I've tried too many of them (especially including yours) to try again, and the reviews on this one are too not-so-hot for me to try another when even seasoned players say it's not a good entry.

(based on sale prices)
Base Game: 8
All major expansions: 130
Also minor expansions: 168
Anything that has any game play: 170
If you add in the cosmetics (I've removed duplicate/bundled): 214
And also music: 231.

Regular prices, well: 40/275/330/335/422/452!
No see it's great because the base game keeps getting updated indefinitely so we can keep giving Paradox more and more money. It's pro-gamer because at least we keep getting content unlike those ancient dinosaur games that had a complete release.
Post edited November 28, 2022 by rjbuffchix
Posted December 02, 2022
I was really looking forward to this ending up on GoG, but I had no idea how much DLC there was. Not even speaking of art or music packs - but actual content packs. It's such an overwhelming list I'm actually looking at just buying on Steam and grabbing the sub that gives access to all the DLC. I HATE Steam. HATE the platform, but dropping so much money on a single game on GoG is very unattractive.

Really hoping something gets worked out here, though I won't get my hopes up.
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