My opinion is if they decide to revisit HRE, Germany and Italy they should do it for free. Like you said most of the nations i mentioned are al ready part of the Emperor DLC. If they want to elevate some missions, modifiers and other stuf go for it. It could be like 1.29 Manchu update which offered free content for all EU4 players.
Yes, they could create something like Manchu update. When?, i would leave Tinto to decide. My opinion is that HRE, Germany and Italy should be free update like it was the case of Manchu update.
That was expected and even advertised several times by devs. After Leviathan devs said that they won't be adding any new mechanic that could break the game. Instead they played it smart by focusing on updates but also at the same time focusing on fixing all the bugs EU4 have, which is cool. How many updates and DLCs EU4 will have? no one can tell for sure. I presume after they're finished with Middle East and Central and South America we may see actual end for EU4.
Well, if it's a free patch I guess it would only include new mission trees but no new mechanics otherwise. We may also have a few mission trees included in the free patch alongside Domination rather than in an independant one, after all we got a lot of free mission trees released alongside Emperor and Leviathan. However, an update on Italy and HRE/Germany may need alternate mission trees for the formable tags which would probably be lots of work.
Pretty sure Persia will be taken care of in a nearby Middle East dlc.
I would also like proper mission trees for the Hordes and Tibet.
Yes definitely especialy Yuan. I talked to one of the devs about Yuan. No promises but they said will see what they can do. I also suggested them to overlook Buddhist religion as well since it's one of the weakest religions. But yeah in general post-Mongolian world does deserve more missions. Countries like Golden Horde, Timurids, perhaps Ilkhanate, Chagatai and Yuan. Perhaps Yuan could get acces to EoC missions if they take Mandate.
No, in fact the opposite effectively. And no, I don't think we are close to EU5 at all, maybe in 2 years time we will be. We shall see.
Better, because you'll only have one layer of gratuitous Britaboo exceptionalism, not two
We don't know all the new free features yet, they might have reworked some religions like they have done in previous patches.
It’s creative bankruptcy and Pdox is just ruthless milking EU4 with pointless content to keep the lights on and their interns occupied.
Yes there's also that. They didn't show us everything. There's a logic in your words since they didn't exactly advertised that they're adding posibility to reconvert back to Norse with LotN DLC. However something is telling me that Buddhist religion won't be a part of either Domination or 1.35 update. Now i may be wrong on this.
The DLC is probably like a month away from release, so there will still be like 4 more DDs. After all, they said that they'll show us free features during March, so I wouldn't be so sure. We just have to wait and see.
