Paradox is so greedy that the full version of this game will cost you well over 200 bux (aud) because they sell their updates to the game as overpriced DLC, the base game is practically a $70 demo, its barebones without the updates.

I do love the concept of this game, but it's so confusing and complex that you need to be a master of the series with hundreds of hours to have the most basic idea of what's happening. This isn't a game like civ or a rts where you learn things synchronously as you play. The game just throws you into it and youre expected to know what to do.

The tutorial does an ok job teaching you the real basic stuff (i did it 3 times), but once I jumped into a real game I had no idea what was going on, I was already getting invaded and bombarded with different messages and buttons and I just could not be bothered. You could sit and watch videos and read guides but I feel if you have to go online to study a game it just isn't worth it (for me).

Its just real sad that a company like paradox has a monopoly on these types of games, and instead of providing a complete and fun experience for fans of the genre, they choose to milk them for all they got instead because they know that no real competition exists.