Paradox announce Victoria 3: Expansion Pass 2 with Charters of Commerce expansion arriving in June

It may not be the most popular strategy game from Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studios, but they're still expanding it. Victoria 3 is getting a major expansion in June, with the Victoria 3: Expansion Pass 2 on Steam now.

Much like Paradox did with the recent Season 09 Expansion Pass for Stellaris, the new Victoria 3: Expansion Pass 2 arrives with a tiny cosmetic pack DLC available now and the rest comes later. I won't say Paradox are bending Valve's newer rules around the updated Season Passes system, which requires at least one DLC to be released with it, but twice in a row we've seen them put up a tiny cosmetic DLC like this. Feels a bit cheeky and cheap just to get the pass up.

Anyway. The actual first proper DLC with Victoria 3: Charters of Commerce arrives June 17:

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Features of Victoria 3: Charters of Commerce include:

• Company Charters: grant charters to your nation’s companies to give them an advantage in the cutthroat game of international trade.
  • Trade Charters let companies trade their manufactured goods on the world market
  • Investment Charters allow companies to establish regional headquarters and invest in foreign markets
  • Colony Charters make it possible for companies to govern colonial regions
  • Industry Charters give companies permission to expand their field of business into other types of production.
• Monopolies: Encourage monopolistic industries in your country, whether it be a highly efficient but costly state monopoly, or a private company monopoly that crowds out competitors in the production of vital goods.
• Diplomatic Treaties: Sign new types of diplomatic agreements, including imposing uneven trade deals and setting limits on colonization.
• Prestige Goods: Let successful companies branch out into the production of high quality goods like champagne, establishing your unique cultural imprint on a good type and gaining an edge on your competitors.

The full expansion pass will have:

• Trade Ships Bonus Pack: Immediately available to all who purchase the Expansion Pass, this art pack adds three new on-map ship models that cross the trade lanes of the world.
• Charters of Commerce Mechanics Pack: Use the power of trade and business to build stronger ties with friends or to bludgeon your rivals in this Mechanics Pack focused on the economic levers of power. Establish trade companies, manage monopolies and sign new types of treaties as you increase the wealth of your citizens at the expense of others.
• National Awakening Immersion Pack: Explore the complex and dynamic history of the Balkans. Rising nationalist energies and a fading Ottoman Empire offer new opportunities for the Austrian Empire, as well as smaller regional powers, but these same nationalist energies may threaten the very foundation of the Habsburg regime.
• Songs of the Homeland Music Pack: Expand your global empire to the accompaniment of new stirring songs to inspire national pride and celebrate the innovations of the modern age.
• Iberian Twilight Immersion Pack: Revive the fortunes of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Choose sides in the great political debates of the day and rebuild the global reach that once made your nation the marketplace of the world.