Unfortunately, the publisher/studio, Paradox, tends to ruin their titles with extremely predatory monetization schemes, for which this game, Crusader Kings II, is the poster boy. A barebones skeleton which they clearly hope you will spend hundreds of dollars on eventually buying most the DLC piece-by-piece, so as to get well over $70 out of you. Ethically, I must condemn the game and publisher totally, because that kind of practice ruins the in-game experience by effectively turning the entire game into one big advertisement. Perhaps someday they'll actually start pricing content at what it's worth and offering it in a non-predatory way. That is, of course, more likely if everyone holds them to account for their behavior. Perhaps someday I'll come back to see they've cut the Imperial Collection's price to something reasonable for what it is, and raise my rating, maybe even remove or rewrite this review. Perhaps... As it is, at over $100 even on a 60% discount, the Imperial Collection is still ridiculously overpriced for a 2012 game that looks like a 2012 game. It's like offering Pac Man for "free" but charging $6 for the ability to move left, another $15 for the ability to move up, etc... oh you want the powerups to appear, that's another $70.
