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If you are patient Paradox games become reasonably priced over time during sales or through bundles. Also they are so much more replayable than other games, it's perfectly reasonable to spend $100-250 on them (I logged >1000 hours in EU4 before a third of the DLCs even came out).

I like that their DLC model gives them the opportunity to support and expand games for so long. I don't like that their base games pretty much stink until they get at least the first few DLC though - there's not much reason to play CK3 when it's so content-bare and CK2 exists as a "complete" game with tons of content.