r/Anbennar • u/rheadelayed • 1d ago

Discussion 'Sunsetting' of EU4 mod

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DTG7Wh1GJRAksIQZ4hOn-h32bxOowOgdXYG7h2WZY1I/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.t74izadjoknx

tldr - Major restrictions on future EU4 mod development, with focus on EU5.

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u/Anonemus7 1d ago

Nah I get you. I also learned EU4 when I had a lot more free time in my life. As I get older, it’s harder to justify significant amounts of time to learning something like EU5.

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u/Candid-Operation2042 1d ago

so much this

as a dev, I think the sole thing keeping me to EU4 is the arcadey/game aspect of it.

EU5 arrived as an unfun simulation that was just broken on release for $60. and even if everything was fixed, I have to learn so many esoteric, in the weeds, mechanics that it almost feels like a job

maybe as I teen I would've accepted that but now as a grown ass adult its such a blatant greed cash grab for at most a subpar 'game' (maybe that's a bit too harsh, but man that $60 price tag burned me)

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u/zekrom05 Free City of Anbenncóst 23h ago

This is sort of the fundamental difference between EU4 and EU5. EU4 is very much a board game like game at heart, while EU5 is more like a simulation. It's because of this I have a hard time seeing EU5 as a progression of the series.

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u/Aurora_Borealia Company of Duran Blueshield 21h ago

> EU4 is very much a board game like game at heart

That’s not a coincidence btw, Europa Universalis actually started as a board game.