Anon12/01/25, 00:51No.2272289
>What caused them to fall out of popularity
in the past there was less scrutiny on historical accuracy
there are many fans who are extremely autistic about historicity, enough that even if they are a minority they are a big enough one that paradox cares what they have to say (at least partially because they say it really loudly)
lots of time periods have very poor record keeping and rely on guesswork to fill them in, getting worse the farther from europe you get
so back in the crusader kings 2 days it was enough to go "ehhhh we dont have historical records from this area let's just fill it in with whatever"
now it's harder to do that and requires more work
the more bookmarks that get added, especially as the map expands, so they decided to cut extra bookmarks and just focus on the one start date