Their dlc's have always been overpriced, but there hasn't been one that actually broke the game in years.
Well... Eu4's newest expansion, "Leviathan", has actually broken the game, it is actually unplayable. And the worst part? Even if you don't have the DLC, you're still screwed because the free patch that came with the DLC also breaks the game.
Oh, and also this dlc is 20$.
So please shit on paradox interactive in this thread.
Just paradox returning to their roots
For the longest time they had a rep for releasing such buggy messes that accepted wisdom was that you should wait at least a year before buying. This culminated with HoI3, which was the biggest steaming pile of completely unplayable garbage on release that I've ever seen (cyberpunk had nothing on HoI3). Of course HoI3 remained unplayable throughout its entire lifespan due to micromanagement hell and overly-ambitious systems that could never be made to work right, but that's a different story. They started actually hiring QA after that shitshow to rehabilitate their terrible rep, but I guess nobody ever learns anything
As a sidenote, the whole saga of Magna Mundi the mod that got funded to turn into a modder-developed paradox game was another amazingly hilarious paradox trainwreck
Victoria 2, the holy grail of the PDX fanbase, is abysmal without the two main DLCs. People seem to forget about that a lot.
Yep, I am a long time paradox fan, I am aware of it's history which is why I specified that this is the most broken dlc in years, because before that there was the rajas of india dlc for ck2 and before that hoi3 as you've mentioned.
One of my favourite ones was Vicky 2 at release, where clearly nobody had playtested beyond the midgame, and the economy and pop wants/needs were so borked that mid-lategame was just constant hordes of rebels flying ancom flags spawning in every country forever :ancom-heart: