To start with, I'm quite a fan of paradox games (as in the company, not the concept), with thousands of hours among their games. Recently they released Europa Universalis V, and while skeptical before release it seems to have gotten good ratings and it seems to be relatively stable. I feel like I need to buy it now until it's too late.

But like, why?

If you don't know paradox that well, they tend to release roughly yearly DLCs for their games. This can cause the cost for the "Full game" to bloat into the hundreds, (though I want to note that you still have access to the base game, you don't lose access to content just because they release more content as a dlc. However that discussion is for another post). Long story short, EU V is currently in it's worst state, and most expensive as it will ever be. For every year that goes, there will be free updates for every paid dlc, plus better and better sales. Why do I feel like I need it now? It's not like I have the time nor money at the moment anyway.

I'm going to (try to) do the reasonable thing and wait. Wait for work to calm done, wait for my wallet to recover from christmas (plus some other recent one time purchases), and wait for EU V to get better. Sure, it's probably quite good now, but it's only going to get better.

Let's see how long I can hold on to this...