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It's been a bit of a whirlwind of Paradox news recently and we have even more to share. With a tiny amount of effort, you can get The Old Gods expansion for Crusader Kings II free.

This is after Crusader Kings II was set free to play and Crusader Kings III was announced just like I suggested it would be.

So how do you go about getting more free goodies with The Old Gods expansion? Quite simple really, sign up to their newsletter/account here (a normal Paradox account login seemed to work) and when confirmed you can login and grab your free expansion Steam key.

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However, it's not entirely clear if this is supposed to only be for new subscriptions. For me it when I login to the subscription page, it has a tick by the expansion and my Paradox account shows it in my game list so from everything shown I should have it but the page lists no Steam key. Seems others are having the same issue, so might just be a temporary problem. Still, worth doing if you don't own it for whenever they fix it.

Update: Paradox replied:

We are aware that some customers have not been provided with the Old Gods DLC after signing up to the email list. This is down to the sheer volume of sign ups (you rock!) and we are fixing it by the end of the week. Don't worry, you'll get your DLC, it's just going to take a little bit of time as we spent all last week at PDXCon and also moved offices so we have our hands full at the moment ;)! Please check your games tab (accounts.paradoxplaza.com/games) at the end of the week and you should see it there.

Update #2: Should all be fine now.

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kokoko3k Oct 22, 2019
It has worked flawlessly for me
Liam Dawe Oct 22, 2019
Quoting: redneckdrow
Quoting: eldakingWell, I already bought it (and the base game) three times, all through Humble Bundles, so not directly affected.

There are supposedly also in-game challenges to unlock cosmetics for CK3, but I wasn't able to find those when I opened the game (not that I looked very hard, I had a game ongoing already).

Well According to the 3.30 changelog (via Changelog.txt in the game's directory):

Spoiler, click me


- Monarch's Journey is available to all non-Linux players. This is a feature which will bi-weekly present new characters to play with a scenario of challenges to earn cosmetic rewards for the upcoming Crusader Kings III game.


Emphasis mine, I hope this doesn't mean we won't see CK3. I have 657 hours in CK2; it's my most played game on Steam!
Here's what Paradox told me about that little feature not being on Linux:

QuoteThe technology we're using in the background to make this possible unfortunately doesn't have support for the Linux platform.
Liam Dawe Oct 22, 2019
My key for The Old Gods just now came through.
redneckdrow Oct 22, 2019
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: redneckdrow
Quoting: eldakingWell, I already bought it (and the base game) three times, all through Humble Bundles, so not directly affected.

There are supposedly also in-game challenges to unlock cosmetics for CK3, but I wasn't able to find those when I opened the game (not that I looked very hard, I had a game ongoing already).

Well According to the 3.30 changelog (via Changelog.txt in the game's directory):

Spoiler, click me


- Monarch's Journey is available to all non-Linux players. This is a feature which will bi-weekly present new characters to play with a scenario of challenges to earn cosmetic rewards for the upcoming Crusader Kings III game.


Emphasis mine, I hope this doesn't mean we won't see CK3. I have 657 hours in CK2; it's my most played game on Steam!
Here's what Paradox told me about that little feature not being on Linux:

QuoteThe technology we're using in the background to make this possible unfortunately doesn't have support for the Linux platform.

Sigh, another stupid middleware! I hate it when crap like that happens.
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