was announced at PDXCON 2019, which was accompanied by Crusader Kings II becoming a free game for anyone to enjoy.
Players who Crusader Kings II will not be receiving the full version of the game, as Crusader Kings II received fifteen separate paid content expansions from 2012 to 2018, as well as many DLC packs that add new visuals and songs. The expansions are currently on sale as part of the PDXCON celebrations, but the combined price of all of the content DLC alone is still around ninety Euros. The DLC content for Crusader Kings II has been praised for how many different ways it changes the base game experience, so the fans of the series have been ive of the additional paid content.
Crusader Kings III was shown to the public for the first time at PDXCON, as well as BATTLETECH. Screen Rant had the chance to speak to Crusader Kings III Lead Designer Alexander Oltner about the future DLC plans for the game and he confirmed that it will not reuse the content of previous DLC, unlike a certain other series.
Crusader Kings II continually received DLC throughout its run with the most recent being released in 2018. Will a similar plan be in effect for Crusader Kings III, where the game is ed with content after launch?
Alexander Oltner: We can't really say what the DLC model will be like. It's being rethought a little, I can't spill the beans about it. I can say that we will not retread the exact same ground that we did in the CK2 expansions. We will have expansions, that much is certain. It will not be like in The Sims, like, rehashing the same expansions.
the highly-anticipated Sims 5. The issues with The Sims expansions are such that it's not surprising for the Crusader Kings III devs to want to avoid any sort of comparison with their game, especially as Crusader Kings II has an incredible amount of DLC of its own.
The fact that Crusader Kings II will be available for free in the future means that Crusader Kings III will need a lot of content in the base game in order to justify paying for a brand new title. It's not surprising to learn that the game will receive DLC in the future, but it's at least reassuring to hear that the post-launch content won't just be repackaged versions of the current crop of expansions that are available for Crusader Kings II.
Crusader Kings III will be released for PC and Xbox Game in 2020.
