I have played this game for nearly 1000 hours and nearly 10 years, and I have a love/hate relationship with it. For one, I love the vehicles, which is the main reason I play the game. The gameplay can absolutely get stale at times, and nothing much has changed on that front besides the addition of new vehicles and mechanics. I never reviewed the game because I couldn't decide on leaving a positive or negative review, but the recent economy changes has led me to this.

Hopefully steam won't hide this review, but I felt it was important to express my dissatisfaction with the game at this point. Playing this game for free is now impossible, and even with premium (which doubles rp and silver lions) it is barely playable. It's impossible to make money at higher tiers due to the increased repair costs combined with decreased rewards. They have always been pushing the community, and it's honestly refreshing to see the community finally push back.

Hopefully Gaijin will learn from this, though I honestly doubt it. If they miraculously do learn from this, I will change this review.

What the ♥♥♥♥ paradox?
This is not a complete game, this feels like playing Factorio purely through horribly designed menus. The core gameplay loop revolves around construction, which in practice means it is going back and forth between checking what's expensive in your market and building that thing. You are required to always watch your market and what your building. Prices change from -75% to +75% on a whim, leading to buildings mass firing and hiring over and over again, leading to increases in radicals that never go away.
This just scratches the surface of the countless glaring problems within the game. While I love Victoria 2 more than any other Paradox game, it was difficult to top, yet you failed spectacularly.
Perhaps this comes from my own vision of this game differing from Paradox's, but I refuse to believe that this is what they wanted from the game
What have you been doing for the past three years Paradox?

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