LordCameron said:

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Which part?

Data stealing/tracking/harvesting: Because you are paying someone to profit off of you, rather than them paying you back for it. And the trackers are not free. That's eating up your cpu cycles/ electricity and adding more room for bugs. AoW3 started crashing regularly for me and I was locked out of it for a while after they added in the data tracking. I still get error messages popping up.

DRM: Because GOG has an anti-DRM policy. If you buy a game on GOG you own it. You don't own AoW3. Once the company goes out of business/ gets bored of supporting paradox accounts, you'll be locked out of multiplayer (I'm sure fans/their last gasp will come up with some solution) but it shouldn't have been their to start with. Plus accounts are a real pain.

DLC upfront: Because it suggests they are cutting content to sell back to the player later.

Season Pass: Because they are asking you to gamble on an unproven product.

Pre-order bonus/news letter bonus: Those who come to the game late will get a lesser game. It is a desecration of the art. They are purposefully chopping apart their game to encourage their customers to go against their best interests and pre-order (buy a product which doesn't exist)

Lots of DLC planned: It means DLC is a model for making money rather than health expansions which add to the game. AoW3's expansions compliment it perfectly

Jordi being a customer service robot: The company doesn't care about their costumers and their issues and instead will say whatever it takes to make them shut up and go away. This is the tendrils of Paradox taking over ever more

Pushing a political message then refusing discussion let alone criticism: They are cowards looking for cheap hypocrisy points rather than standing by what they believe in.

Changing AoW3 years after it was purchased by the majority of its players and then refusing to make any concessions on the matter: It means they are completely untrustworthy, and we have no reason to believe they won't pull the rug under us again. Another reason why GOG's ability to own your own game is important. Because then you can keep whatever copy was the 'unruined' version and still keep the complete feature set.

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