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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 0.0 hrs on record
Posted: 8 Feb, 2022 @ 9:03am
Updated: 14 Feb, 2022 @ 5:47pm

When you are trying to extort
I hope people will not buy this shameful court
It is not about Royalty...
It is about DISLOYALTY
Disloyalty with your fans
'bout time you revised your plans!
Stop thinking on your coin box, Paradox!
Do what is right... FIX YOUR DAMN PRICE!
it is pretty dirty, when you ask thirty!
Forgive my malcontent... but it is a constant torment...
When content this old, gets sold at the price of gold!

OVERALL SCORE: 7.5
BEST FEATURE Highly customizable Cultures and the Artifact feature
WORST FEATURE 30€ for 3 features is pricey

SHORT REVIEW: I have played this DLC since it came out intensively and I have to say that only 3 major features were added.

1º Personal Artifacts (Swords, Armour, etc, like in CK2)
2º The Royal Court itself that adds new random events and Court Arttifacts
3º Cultures that are pretty much like religion, and highly customizable

These features are all good to have around, but definetely not at the price of 30€. I would gladly pay 10-15€ at the very best. More than half of these were taken from CK2, making the culture rework pretty much the only thing that CK2 lacked in comparison with this DLC (CK2 also lacked the Royal Court, but the Royal Court is pretty much just a bunch of new random events with Artifacts that you can place around for extra modifiers, so nothing new, since Personal Artifacts already existed and so did Random Events).
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𝅳𝅳𝅳𝅳𝅳𝅳𝅳𝅳 23 Feb, 2022 @ 11:13am 
I think you're right about the artifacts, with that said, I think that the royal court mechanic needs a bit more credit(not much, but, a bit, it also meshes well with the artifact system imo), not much but it at least tries to do something unique and add replayability to the game. The culture system is what really I think makes the biggest part of the DLC, since it is the newest and most impact-full aspect. I would say around over 20% of the content is new, since the royal court isn't just necessarily random events(after having played it for a bit), and the culture system is just that damn good honestly, and adds a lot of game-play for me personally, where as before I would have to mod in a specific culture I wanted to create, now I can do it in-game. Honestly, I would have paid 30$ just for that, but I understand I am an outlier there because I have spent at least 50 or 60 hours adding in cultures for each of my personal playthroughs.
The_Spartan 23 Feb, 2022 @ 6:22am 
Also, as an important side note, in some aspects Royal Court is even a step behind CK2's artifact system, because in CK2 you could hunt for specific items and get them in the process, in CK3 you can't do it as easily as in CK2.
The_Spartan 14 Feb, 2022 @ 5:52pm 
Review was updated as promised.

@Theodorex

About 80% if you consider that CK2 already had:

Artifacts, and Random Events Which it did.

Personal Artifacts for your character were already included in CK2, CK2 lacked Court Artifacts but lets be frank, they are pratically the same thing, something that you merely insert on a determined slot.

Random Events are Random Events, which is what the Royal Court mechanic pratically is all about. Which again, CK2 has of plenty.

The 20% of new content that this DLC delivers, is just the highly customizable culture feature. CK2 didn't have that. Everything else was present, one way or another.

Of course I am not taking graphical improvements in consideration, which, is a plus in CK3, but that is already expected from a supposed improved version of a game that was made 10 years ago.
DroneFrost 8 Feb, 2022 @ 9:42am 
IDK about 80%, some but not 80%. The price tho, I completely agree that it's too much for what it adds. $15-20 might have been way better.
𝅳𝅳𝅳𝅳𝅳𝅳𝅳𝅳 8 Feb, 2022 @ 9:33am 
Out of curiousity, what features in the dlc were in ck2? You said 80% of the dlc was basically copy pasted from ck2 so it should be really easy to name them, and the should def be the majority of the dlc