King of Kings Review (12345shane)
An overpriced expansion that doesn't deliver. Its greatest addition to the game is the quality of life changes: automatic missionaries, pop-ups for seizing land, granting titles, etc.
However, they really just ignored a lot of the community on this one. If you read the forums, you would have seen the hundreds of comments noting how Paradox Tinto failed to add content to historically significant nations that the community desired. If you're a history nerd you already know which nations these are, but I'll list them anyways. They failed to add content to nations including, but not limited to:
- Hisn Kayfa (the last remnant of the Ayyubid Empire)
- Trebizond
- Oman (the most significant Ibadi nation, which historically became an empire to rival the Portuguese and British)
- Timurids (their base mission tree is quite outdated, though they can now form Persia)
- Hormuz
...among others.
I truly feel that this DLC doesn't deliver to the extent that it should. The Byzantine content is a clear desire to pander to the fact that Byzantium is a huge draw for many players - which, fair enough, but it's hardly the Middle East focused content we were all waiting for.
This pack is not a mess like Leviathan, but it is a failure for the devs to listen to the community on what we really wanted for a Middle East immersion pack. I realize they probably need something to sell as EU5 is being developed, but packaging mission trees from barely a dozen nations into an overpriced pack isn't exactly community-friendly. Furthermore, when the official DLC barely matches up to the quality of many mods, such as Europa Expanded, it's a cause for concern. Please do better on the next, and possibly final, few DLCs we've been promised. Thanks.