

The main thing that keeps me away from Stellaris (and all Paradox games) is the stupid amount of DLC content.
When a game makes me feel like I have to spend some stupid amount to buy all 30 different dlcs just to get the whole game, then I just avoid the game entirely. If I see a steam page and the dlc list is the longest section on the page then I just close it down.
I get that, and I’m sure there are people who see that list of dlcs and only think about the amount of content positively.
I usually pirate games before buying, and I would have purchased it because I really enjoyed it with all dlcs, but going from all content pirated to only base content purchased (unless I wanted to fork out over £250) felt like a kick in the teeth.