Buncha spiteful whiners, the lot of you negative reviewers. It's a Paradox grand strategy. You know how this works and you know it well. No, it's not perfect right now, but it's nowhere near as bad as you guys make it out to be. Yet you continue to leave negative reviews that affect future releases and put off new prospective players. If any grand strategy series deserved a sequel, it was Victoria, in the arguably coolest and most important period of world history, and now we've got it. Yet here you are, knowing how this process works, finally seeing a sequel, and immediately complaining about it. Stellaris and EUIV have been radically transformed since the state of their release. You know well that they're capable of doing it with this one too, as player feedback was the driving force behind the improvement of those games into verified classics.

What they've done with the Victoria franchise here is put out a game that's accessible enough for new players to get in on the ground floor with. Don't kill it before it starts. This world of grand strategy games is not an easy one to get into, yet here they are, taking something we love and making more of it, on a level that new players can access. I understand many of you are passionate about the genre but there's no sense in dogging it this hard and amplifying the negatives so loud. Introduce your gripes to their forums instead, where you already know they regularly communicate with the passionate veteran fanbase, and don't put off new players. That's how we get another Imperator Rome. It's already a niche genre as it stands, don't squander the chance to breathe more life into it.

If you're reading this and you would be interested in a historical grand strategy game (and you're not a spiteful blowhard), I recommend that you buy this game and enjoy a new historical grand strategy game in a market with not alot of new historical grand strategy games, and enjoy the regular community-advised updates they roll out with to improve it over time just like they do with all their other grand strategy games. If you're brand new and willing to dive in, here's a good spot to take on that learning curve. It's not as bad as they say.

Buncha spiteful whiners, the lot of you negative reviewers. It's a Paradox grand strategy. You know how this works and you know it well. No, it's not perfect right now, but it's nowhere near as bad as you guys make it out to be. Yet you continue to leave negative reviews that affect future releases and put off new prospective players. If any grand strategy series deserved a sequel, it was Victoria, in the arguably coolest and most important period of world history, and now we've got it. Yet here you are, knowing how this process works, finally seeing a sequel, and immediately complaining about it. Stellaris and EUIV have been radically transformed since the state of their release. You know well that they're capable of doing it with this one too, as player feedback was the driving force behind the improvement of those games into verified classics. What they've done with the Victoria franchise here is put out a game that's accessible enough for new players to get in on the ground floor with. Don't kill it before it starts. This world of grand strategy games is not an easy one to get into, yet here they are, taking something we love and making more of it, on a level that new players can access. I understand many of you are passionate about the genre but there's no sense in dogging it this hard and amplifying the negatives so loud. Introduce your gripes to their forums instead, where you already know they regularly communicate with the passionate veteran fanbase, and don't put off new players. That's how we get another Imperator Rome. It's already a niche genre as it stands, don't squander the chance to breathe more life into it. If you're reading this and you would be interested in a historical grand strategy game (and you're not a spiteful blowhard), I recommend that you buy this game and enjoy a new historical grand strategy game in a market with not alot of new historical grand strategy games, and enjoy the regular community-advised updates they roll out with to improve it over time just like they do with all their other grand strategy games. If you're brand new and willing to dive in, here's a good spot to take on that learning curve. It's not as bad as they say.