One week to release. Anyone here intending to pick it up?

I did rather like the original Vicky, pre expansion pack. I've not played the Revolutions version enough to form an opinion on it. So I'm rather interested in the sequel and plan to pick it up once I know it's not buggy and/or missing half the features it needs to be interesting as had been the case with many of the earlier Paradox releases.

I felt that Vicky was the most interesting of the Paradox stable, despite my dislike of the setting. It's the one where peacetime is the busiest and most interesting. Between research, politics, diplomacy, colonisation, infrastructure, construction, trading, playing with sliders, and POP management there was always something to do. It didn't feel like the partially empty experience found in many other Paradox games; often in them I find myself with speed cranked to the max waiting for something to happen or the chance to do something. Warfare, always a wobbly and unenjoyable part of Paradox games IMO, felt like it had been placed in the back seat in Vicky and that helped strengthen the experience. Becoming a great power by conquest is passe. Becoming a great power by the might of your industry is more flavoursome.

Vicky 2 is looking promising and I hope that it lives up to its predecessor, and does so out of the box on release day.