Recent reviews by Curanos

Up until recently, I probably would have recommended C:S. I may not exactly agree with some of the pricing for some of the DLC, but I would have recommended the base game regardless. However, with the launcher update, I don't think I can honestly recommend this to others. I simply don't understand what they were thinking when they decided upon such an action. I won't speak for others, but personally, I don't feel the need, nor the desire to be signing up for an account with Paradox's website just to play a game that I've already been using just fine until now without one. If I had felt said desire, I would have already done so without basically being forced to do it. I've read that some people have found work-arounds for not using the launcher, but the fact that's even necessary is just a tad ridiculous. All of the reasons stated in the post that came with the update for the reason why the launcher was implemented also seem rather weak, such as it making it possible for people to see news about sales and such without the need for social media (which I have long ago abandoned), something that I can already find out through Steam easily enough.