Europa Universalis V confirmed

[Tamas]

 

Achievements completely derailed EU4, I feel. I think what happened was, when it was release Paradox added a bunch of crazy achievements like doing impressive stuff with Asian backwaters and the like. Problem was, people on the forums started demanding that they become able to achieve these as it was a basic features to unlock them. So things drifted toward people westernising Vietnam by the mid 1500s and the like. Maybe this has improved once I stopped looking, I don't know.

Anyways, RH is right, Johan needs to get a good night's sleep and return to his original design vision and keep improving it, not trying to silence the forum edgelords.

It's impossible in any case. The recent beta patch fixed the issue where one (including the AI) could re-raise levies ad infinitum, creating ridiculous whack-a-zombie wars. There were about 3 new threads opened about it per day on average. That was until the beta patch fixed it, because that silenced the "stop levy spam" crowd and within MINUTES brought to life the "bring back levy spam" crowd which was just as numerous and they polluted the whole forum with their crying.

[garbon]

It also must be tough for him given how Imperator went down.

[Josephus]

He's getting old too; so I think this will be his last baby. I'm sure he wants it to work, but one thing I've noticed, having ventured back into the forums recently; the crowd there is a lot different than the crowd back in EU2. Back in the day (old man rant) the forum was mostly people asking for help with  something or offering well-meaning and thought-out suggestions. Now almost every thread is like "this game is broken.." "I hate EU5". "Why can't I WC in 50 years anymore" "this game, as it is, cannot be played" etc.

[Tamas]

He's getting old too; so I think this will be his last baby. I'm sure he wants it to work, but one thing I've noticed, having ventured back into the forums recently; the crowd there is a lot different than the crowd back in EU2. Back in the day (old man rant) the forum was mostly people asking for help with  something or offering well-meaning and thought-out suggestions. Now almost every thread is like "this game is broken.." "I hate EU5". "Why can't I WC in 50 years anymore" "this game, as it is, cannot be played" etc.

Yeah I was wondering if it was just my rose-tinted glasses or really it's a much more unpleasant forum than during our heydays.

[Syt]

That's just modern online "discourse" I'm afraid (and having a much larger audience than they did 20 years ago).