That's the routers business model though
A) discord
B) make friends with one person that does this or plays with other groups, then join them when they are playing with others
It's probably a single dev that made the decision, then moves onto something else. They (probably?) don't have the ability to just raise a recurring PO etc to easily pay you and don't care enough to worth through the paperwork.
If you had a paid licencing model they may have done it, or just found another lib/ wrote their own.
'cool' is relative - the have to water the roads they build over the top to stop them melting!
This makes me want to play crusader kings again, ck3's earliest start is 40 or so years after this?
they just send a OTP to your email with the idea that you should be keeping your email secure (and that email providers are more secure than they can be)
The whole site seems like a PoC - the accounts don't even have passwords! (I could actually kinda get on board with this)
Don't the MRLP have quite a good track record of their policies actually being implemented 30 years or so after they first joked about them?
I will look some up later....
Probably too long for the online forms everything use nowadays. Before you just had to write ~real small~ on the paper form.
the tournaments one is very well reviewed. The Norse one is worth it if you want to play the Nordics.
Royal Court is mostly only good if you want to make the game easier (you get lots more equitable artifacts etc). It sounds like they are improving this to make the actual court bit more interesting.
The event pack/friend and Foes are normally considered not great, possibly even negative, but it sounds like they are updating them to fix the event frequency.
unsure on the rest.
Oh it WILL cause security issues. It's just a tradeoff against if they are worth the benefits.
Wow, this is a long read. Well worth it for anyone who got caught in Rome TW2's hype and subsequent disappointment.
Would be good to see what other games he later worked on. Will try to remember to look him up on linkedin when I have time