Hearthstone.
lololol. thnx for the good laugh! hearthstone is a f2p game. and many people complain about it being very grindy and p2w(which it is and which is why i stopped playing it).
so essentially even you agree that coh2 as a not f2p game has the micro dlc policy of a grindy f2p game. lol
I don't think that you can really say that one is greater than the other. Changes to EU4 are sometime so subtle as to be invisible; at other times they are very obvious. Commanders certainly do change the game significantly; they certainly change the meta regularly.
as i already wrote, you can use the dlcs for free when the host has them. that is very fair! and as far i understand, one cannot have an advantage by buying a dlc, so its not p2w. coh2 is very different
Either way, Paradox enjoys a very loyal, even fanatical fan base, that will reliably buy both DLC and new editions of games. And both regard this as a win-win; the fans know that they are effectively hiring Paradox to keep working on a particular sort of play that they like, and Paradox have the security of an audience they can have confidence in, and don't have to go chasing after the Next Big Thing.
well, paradox games are very special and complex (for example hoi3), so its no wonder the fanbase is loyal. the difference in coh2 is, that i (and i think many others) have the feeling that most of the development goes into cashcow commanders instead of optimization, good patches and balance, bugfixes, etc.
i really liked wfa and the brits (and bought them immediately), because there they actually released good content
None of this is a bad thing. A subscription model for games is just as reasonable as it was for magazines before the decline of print media. And yet, this is even better than a subscription model because you don't have to commit to a periodic contract, and you don't get completely cut out if you can't or don't want to buy the latest addition... and on top of that, you get the stuff for free just for entertaining yourself.
this is the case for paradox. join the multiplayer, you are still in. in coh2 your win chances are (in some cases severely) reduced if you dont have bought the micro dlcs
What the hell is there to complain about?
releasing loads of (overpriced, if you compare with EU4) microdlcs, instead of fixing the real problems(balance, optimization, bugs, small playerbase,....)
Because you're complaining about getting Free Stuff just for playing a game you enjoy. I mean where else do you get that? Do you get free petrol just for driving?

im not complaining getting free stuff. i think its clear what iam complaining about...
Besides which, the point I was responding to was the claim that Relic's DLC policy is uniquely bad and uniquely unpopular. This is very far from true.
never said that. but all games that have such a DLC policy are critisized heavily (watch angry joes video on coh2!). some games are harshly critisized for far less (oblivions horse armor, assassins creeds sword, ...)
And dual flamers. If possible i would also like to use it
but yeah it is pretty wierd since i dont remember to see that commander in the market
i think it was never on the market and i never got it as a warpoil, so its probably not on the droptable