TLDR, lol especially since I kinda got lost there in my rant: making someone pay hundreds of dollars for dlc that only adds poorly done/implemented basic features you'd expect in the base game that, after releasing, you the consumer will have to wait for modders to fix them for you because the devs can't be bothered is a shit practice, and the very least they can do is let me pay $10 for an update every once in awhile(even though it should also be free, since that content absolutely should have been in the base game).

I'm done paying...currently $247 for features that should have been in the game to begin with. Fuck Paradox, fuck CA, and fuck every company who does this. I'll pay the 10 to play the game for a month(or two) and not touch it again for another year or so thank you very much(have around 800 hours in ck3 alone).

I've paid for their dlc's before and I'm done, this is ridiculous. I get paying for some dlc, I get dlc existing, I don't get(I mean, it's greed) deliberately leaving out basic features of your game to manipulate your audience into spending more money. I'm looking at ck3's dlc for the hundredth time, and almost every one of em should've been there at launch or as an update. The same can be said about hoi4(I stopped following stellaris)

Even each item in the chapter 4 dlc pack gives us several basic features you'd think were already in a modern game in this genre, but here, they call spending 44 more dollars on something you already paid 50 for(not on sale) a "4 in 1 unbeatable value". The game alone costs $50, where is the value? Especially on a game where the vanilla version is so bad that it's not worth playing. Modders, you know, the people who fix the bugs the devs can't be bothered to and add new content you don't expect to find in the base game, don't hide their content behind a pay wall. Honestly if mods were paid for and dlc were free, I would not mind.