Paradox is in a death spiral
*buys all the DLC*not my problem
goodthe sooner that dogshit parasite company dies, the better
>>683774637I don't even know what that game is. They should stick to crusader kings.
>>683774637All companies who take Blackrock money should die
>>683774637Isn't Paradox the border drawing game company? The fuck is that knockoff Sims shit in op?
>>683775620Ck3 sucks ass. The only thing they need to stick is everyone except Johann's team into a woodchipper
>>683775662>The paradox CEO should just refuse investors and get sued by the co-owners of the companyyou do not understand business law
>>683775620>I don't even know what that game isThe Sims but made by low-functioning autists
>>683775745that's muttmerican laws. Swedish company can afford to put employees and customers first. Paradox just doesn't because they jew.
>>683774637Are these the guys that made one of the first ever woke games, Life is strange?
>paradoxWhat a name.
>>683775813>Life is strange>woke Fuck you.
>>683775801>doesn't because they jew.ESL Retard Detected
Did Paradox get super fucked by the swap to 3D models? Its in every single one of their games except HOI4 as if its mandated by law. Do they genuinely believe its better than 2D? Is it just easier and cheaper? Or is it just sunk cost and they're trying to cope about losing money?
>>683775662Yes>>683775745>we will 100% guarantee the certain death of our company in the long-term for a single short-term cash injection from investors that don't understand our field of workAny responsible CEO running a game studio should refuse Blackrock money
>>683775876>the villain is a liberal art teacher>the protagonist gets outsmarted and has to be saved by a straight white conservative war vetit was unironically based. Last grasp of basedness in french gaming.
>>683775910At one point they bragged about hiring a bunch of 3D artists and I assume they're desperate to recoup the investment
>>683775876That shit is woke as fuck with terrible writing.Just cause it was millennial Tumblr Era feminist woke, doesn't mean it wasn't woke.
>>683775890nouns can be used as verbs in informal speech, actual esl kun.
>>683775876it is woke retard
what was 'life by you'??
>>683774637>Paradox is in a death spiralGood.
>>683774637paradox really isnt doing well at the moment.>life by you scrapped.>cities skylines 2 turned out shit and is way worse than the first game.>prison architect 2 looks like a fucking mobile game.>millenia flopped hard>victoria 3 still below expectations.>ck3 still below expectations.>stellaris/europa universalis/hearts of iron doing whatever.have they anything remotely good going for them currently?
>>683774637>when you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
>>683776180Parajews trying to get in on that Sims business and milk some whales.
>>683774637so whats paradox up to these days?I dipped when they went public with tyranny and stellaris being the last game published by them that I played, liked tyranny and dropped stellaris when they removed 2 of the FTL travel optionsand outside of getting the last DLCs for CK2 I did't follow anything from them
>>683775910These things usually happen when there's organizational rot.Someone with a business degree or experience at some generic company comes in to take the company to the next level. They throw out some retarded idea and throw the whole company's future into going in this bold new direction. The bold new direction flops because the business guy didn't understand the industry, his company, etc.Business guy starts looking for a new job. He fires a bunch of people to look like they had a really good quarter and jumps ship before the company is destroyed.
>>683774637>jew the plebs into near liquidation>surprised pikachu face when the line briefly stops going upHave they not seen how much money EA pulls from foids with their constant piecemeal packs consisting of tables and chairs? It's like they suddenly got allergic to making money.
>>683776376>gets a call from his buddy in college that a new position just opened up>crashes the current company with no survivors while safely flying out in a golden parachute>gets to highfive and spitroast another one with his childhood friend in tow
>>683775704They've been trying to branch out of cartography and it hasn't been going very well.
>>683775662t. economic radicalist
>>683776376it's a gaming specific phenomenon for some reason. You'd never find retarded suits running music studios or sport teams, but somehow this bullshit is commonplace in vidya. Even movies tend to have people with decent movie knowledge like Hebrew Weinstein running them.
>>683774637What exactly is the barrier on a Sims game bros? Is making an AI that can somewhat be autonomous really that hard? 30 years nearly.... 30 years of total life simulation monopoly. EA won. Maxis killed thousand
>>683777195Music and movie industries are subsidized as propaganda tools. Vidya is not yet infiltrated and when shit falls apart nobody bails them out.
is Paradox the best example of a publisher letting feminists, progressives and weird hipsters take over the studio?
>>683774637did this game ever come out, i didnt hear anything about it, not that i would want to play it, it looks like shit
>>683777219Making a game/engine that doesn't spaz out when there's are a bunch of custom models fucking around a relatively large fully custom terrain with tons of little custom placed furniture/assets isn't that simple.
>>683774637Never even heard of this game.
>>683777348Snoy, Pajeetsoft, EA, CA, Ubishit, Blizzard etc. are all more prominent examples.
>>683777348No the biggest issue with Paradox is still their DLC practicesPeople had to get tired of buying stripped down "full" games at retail prices only to then pay triple or more of that price again to add all the content needed to make the game fun via DLC
>>683777348nah paradox still has a based studio in spain that tolerates none of the faggotry. The worst example has to be volition.
>>683777348Yes considering it was such a niche studio to begin with. EA can be fully poz and still crank out best-sellers and Ubisoft still makes a profit with 1000s of pointless diversity hires. Paradox did the DEI shtick and it immediately blew up in their face and left them with a half-dozen stillborn franchises.
>>683774637>90% drop in profit>"mixed feelings"Is it PR damage control or are there really people this delusional?
>>683777421This is also why there aren't any games fully like Betheada ones for every time /v/ makes a >Why no competitors? ThreadWhat /v/ doesn't get is Bethesda's engine is actually amazing for what it does. The fact you can drop an item somewhere more it in place & it will stay there for thousands of hours no matter how far you go is actually really impressive and the game has to calculate this for everything. They literally can't achieve it in any other meme engine that gets suggested
It's Paradox, the publisher, that is having problems. Paradox, the developer, is doing great.
>>683777524EA can shut down everything but their sports shit and still turn a profit. Blame normalfags who buy FIFA/Madden every single year
>>683777868Normalfags deserve the slop they're given, FIFA and Madden could be 3/10 dumpster fires and would still sell enough on brand recognition alone.
That's a shame. I dunno about the rest of their games but I'm really enjoying Age of Wonders 4.
>>683775876Life is Strange defenders should be exiled from the site, they're nothing but tasteless coomers and retards
swedish devs in general are losers. look at wolfenstein 2 the new colossus, darktide, payday3, and soon kf 3. greedy,entitled,woke,faggy swedish subhumans.
>>683777348Not surprising, its Sweden we're talking after all. Sweden is the California of the nordic region.
>>683778665This, send the immigrants more grenades so they can fix it for us.
>>683778665Helldivers 2 devs are also Swedes iirc
>>683775714>keep Johan "the magic mana button fixes everything" AnderssonI know that you're a brainlet but c'mon now
>>683774637Is Vic3 good yet?
>map game company tries to make something other than map games>predictably flops>they also forget how to make map games and those have been flopping tooSwedes are so shit at making video games
>>683774637Whatever it takes to finally end this nightmare.
>>683774637>>683775594Thankfully Johan is in control again and I can spend another $400 on Europa Universalis DLC over the coming decade.this post is not facetious, I genuinely like their post launch model
>>683776257Age of Wonders 4 is great
>>683776103I am aware, but thankfully I'm autistic and superior to you. I win.
>>683775876Bottom pic is missing a literal drooling retard for Chloe.
>>683779425I'm sorryI hope you get the psychological help you need, anon. I'll pray for you.
>>683775779so it's extremely good...?
>>683776257you forgot the shit-show that is VtM:B2
>>683779823I forgot they bought that trainwreck.
>>683775813You're a retarded faggot. You could have said Gone Home and actually had a point, but half you retards probably weren't even born when it came out.
>>683776374They're developing EU5 (which they aren't calling EU5, not yet at least) and which includes different features from EU4, CK3, and V3They fucked White Wolf, lost shitloads of money on Harebrained, and cancelled some games. They published Cities Skylines 2 which was a disasterCK3 is a downgraded CK2 still
>alienate your fans with shit games and jewish dlc>try to attract normies with new games>normies don't play games unless they're the #1 of the genre with 500m marketing budget>company collapsessame story over and over
>>683778157>mfw I was shittalking my coworker for buying new FIFA at release>the game went on 50% discount the next week
>>683780147>HarebrainedWhy couldn't these retards stick with Battletech and Shadowrun?
>>683779898no, they bought rights to the game and turned it into a trainwreck themselves.
>>683780317From what I heard, Battletech was already showing signs of woke
>>683774637AwesomeEspecially since they shut down Magicka
>>683774637Good. I'd like nothing more than to never see them publish another gameFuck them and the DLC shit
>>683779021Johan seems to have learned his lesson.At least in EU5 dev diaries he has been hyping that no mana and seems to actually aim for more complicated system instead of dumping down.
>>683777219the barrier is that those women will only play what they know, so if it doesn't say The Sims on the can, they wont even look at it because they don't actually give a shit about video games in any other form
>>683780317>>683780442Apparently they were let go from Paradox and are now working on a new game named Graft as an indie studio.Here's hope they left their woke ambitions at Paradox.
>>683779468It's also just about run its course
>>683775704They also have the Zoo Tycoon game.
>>683774637Good. Complacency is death in this industry.
>>683776257God I'm still mad about CS2. What the fuck is wrong with snow Euros?
>>683780726its always a suckerpunchare they too scared to fight an honorable 1v1?
>>683777219I've recently replayed the Sims2 and never noticed how many mechanics the game has to take into consideration. Plus you have expansions that expand on those mechanics. I guess that's too much work and too much financial risk to do when you have to compete with the Sims that already have brand recognition spanning generations now
>>683775745and you're from reddit along with your shit ignorant takes
>>683775927>Refuse money
>>683780812Planet Zoo (which I think is what you're talking about) is not by Paradox, it's by Frontier.
>>683775910everyone in the world prefers 3D to 2Da bunch of v pedos aint "everyone" youre a minority like niggers
>>683774637that screenshot looks like a WEG
>>683775876The fuck is this visual diarrhea of an image is supposed to convey
>>683778665dont worry, give it 20-30 years everyone with white skin will flee new swedistan and their cringe games will disappear with their culture
>>683776257Delusional. You are all delusional living in your own fantasy reality>have they anything remotely good going for them currently?Lets see:>Victoria 3>CK3>Europa 4>Stellaris >HOI4>Incoming DLC for Victoria 3 and EU5 in development Yeah...
I'm still amazed paradox even got that far, I get autists don't really have many choice, but still having to pay full price for a game followed by having to buy ungodly amounts of dlcs just to have a somewhat complete game is fucking absurd
>>683779425their post launch model is dogshit, it effectively blurs out any intentional design the games had with bloat and powercreep garbage
>>683779063Yes (with mods)
>>683781321This works if your audience is full of autistic people, just look at Total War for another example.
>>683781320All shit
>>683774637maybe they should stick to make games that are fun instead of infesting them with DEI
>>683781429to be fair its mostly the fantasy fags that get giga milked for dlc (probably used to it after paying absurd prices for gw minis)
>>683775876You're not fooling anyone especially since the first chapter of this tumblr shit is free to play.
>>683774637Well atleast I've had a ton of fun with Stellaris.
>>683781129Short-term benefit cucks are seething ITT.
>>683781540I bought all of the TW:Warhammer DLC's cause I never really got into tabletop, since building one proper army of beastmen would cost even more than all of the DLC's combined Still it's good to see Paradox fail. Their closure will heal the gaming scene and hopefully others will learn from that.
>>683781425>US scientists predict some bullshit to seed panic and short time profitsSome things never changed
>>683779501senor you esl you lose. Me the blanca man you brown man.
>>683774637>Life by YouWait, it came out? When? Why?
>>683782903it got shitcanned
>>683782931Oh keklmao even
>>683777195anon, no its notI dont know other industries well, but fucking hell look at disney, or shit like KFC.or most private companies that were later inherited by children of original creator,but to be fair, with videogames its very common because vidya industry skyrocketed in past 30 years, from niche hobby and children entertainment, to multi billion industry that reach entire world
>>683777524>Ubisoft still makes a profitthey dontthey are only alive because they get 600 million from the government every year
>>683777524>Ubisoft still makes a profit with 1000s of pointless diversity hiresUbisoft is literally on life support
>>683774637>ParadoxThat will be $6000 for all DLC plus tip.
>>683774637>game got cannedThey didn't realized putting all your staff to work on DLCs mean you have no one working on your game.
>>683775714It’s Johann’s team that’s the problem, the reason EUIV Leviathan was a complete shitshow was because he’s taken the Marlon Brando focus tree and turned into a bloated lazy megalomaniac who thinks he’s too big to fail
>>683784561It's always sad when you realize old games were good in spite of the famous devs, not because of
>>683775801Even then American companies aren't forced to be profitable, they just forced to act in a way that would generate profit if they were doing business well. That's why this DEI shit is probably illegal in America but no one cares because leftist ideology is above the law.
>>683777219I just want a new life sim game that plays like Sims 2 and Urbz for the GBA is that to much to ask for???
>>683774637I didn't even know Life by You came out.Was that the Sims clone that looked super washed out?
>>683776257prison architect 2 was meant to be launched in May, but then at the last minute it was delayed and the dev team replaced by Brazilians. Not the greatest of signs
>>683785050That's because it didn't, they nixed it after a couple of delaysHow they thought it was good enough to reveal in the first place is beyond me
I mean it was obvious, wasn't it? This looks like a Valusoft game traveled forward in time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9c3WEYTJIU
>>683776257According to their own financial report, their own in-house strategy games and Age of Wonderd 4 are quite literally the only things that make them any money. All of their recent publishing ventures except AoW4 have fallen flat.I also suspect that the returns they get from their own games are diminishing due to ballooning expenses. The development costs of CK2 were literal pennies and it made millions, but CK3 costs much more to make just due to the 3D models which means worse profits even if it makes millions.
>>683774637lmao they cancelled this? EA stay winning.
>>683785876The way Paradox talks about the cancellation is like they think the problem was the gameplay, but the game just looked ugly. If the game had looked good they probably could have gotten away with the mechanics being half-baked.
>>683785876This does look unbelievably dogshit, I've seen shovelware porn games made in unity/unreal that look better. I don't know what they were thinking by showing this off. Also I'm not sure about the decision to have the characters actually speak a real language, seems really hard to pull off (currently) and overall unnecessary for a game like this to function. I'm sure that mechanic is probably vapor anyways.
>>683781540historical revision. You fags are too young to remember the cashgrab slavs and vikings DLC for attila that are far worse than anything TWW ever put out.
>>683781540incredibly dumb post, historical fags get an entire asset flip games being sold for full price.
>>683786559>but the game just looked uglyWe're on 4chan here, anon. You can just say that the game put interracial relationships and fagshit front and center. You don't have to use a euphemism
>>683787456>the idea that someone doesn't give a shit about culture war shit is literally incomprehensible to the average touristthe absolute state of /v/eddit
>>683774637Please die please die please. If there's a development studio I genuinely HATE, it's Paracuck. I hate them, I hate their business model, and I hate that they're successful.
>>683777813Who is the pic
>>683787659They make by far the best games in their genre, maybe when Espiocracy comes out things will change but for now thay are alone at the top.
>>683787762They're the only people who make games in their genre. Being Nr. 1 with no competition is no achievement.
>>683775745>>683781129I'll pay you 50 milliions if you replace your devs with blind people. Would make sense to refuse that money?
>>683774637Surely the solution is to half ass more games and sell 3/4 of the content as dlc packs.
>>683781129>you can have 1 million now and then never gain money again>or you can make 500.000 every year until the rest of timeThink long and hard about whats the right choice here
>>683789785>get massive growth>get bonus from shareholders>bail the fuck out>let the new ceo sort out the fallout>get new job at company because they see how much you grew profits at previous jobThis is all public companies in a nutshell anon.
>>683788282It'd be fascinating to find out what they'd produce at least
>>683774637what an ugly game
>>683774637on one side, good riddance to them and their shitty business practiceon the other, i do enjoy their games and pirate their dlc
>>683774637Good i hope they burn down into the ground.
>>683775876Its such an accurate depiction of how insufferable real life teenage girls are that I could not survive past the first 20 minutes. I already have to deal with them enough in real life I don't need this shit in my free time
>>683777219Honestly, just creating a shitload of assets to place around and for your sims to wear, hair customizationg etc. That alone makes it mostly certain that no indie dev can make a decent sims clone. The actual mechanics of the game are really easy to program
>>683774637>profits are down>time to chop another game into 30 piecesI hope they burn
>>683789785>you can have 1 million now and then never gain money again>or you can make 500.000 every year until the rest of time>Think long and hard about whats the right choice hereYou take the 1 million, dump the company, get re-hired at another studio and repeat the process for 1 million a year instead of 500k.What are you, stupid? Why would you want HALF the money?
You fools. If Paradox dies, then Project Caesar dies too, and the entire grand strategy genre dies with it because they're the only ones making these games.
>>683781129>sure the arrow will hit rock bottom tomorrow>but today it'll go up 0.4%
>>683793856You can't threaten me with a good time
>>683793856Grand Strategyfags are autistic enough that if Paradox shit the bed, ten hyperautists would make indie clones before the year ended.
>>683794259Nothing but trash, like the countless XCOM fangames after that series died. Now it's dead again; where are your precious XCOM clones? It's just dead.
>>683793856Modders already generate more quality content for their games than they do for free so its no skin off of anyone's bones.
>>683774637Never heard of this one, is this the sequel to the You testament?
>>683775779so rimworld?
>>683788282The funniest part is that you could do this in america. The concept of foreign entities using economics to intentionally buy up and then crash major parts of business infrastructure hasn't been explored even though it is the perfect attack vector for state actors.
>>683774637Good, maybe they'll learn not to release 50 DLCs for 300+ dollars w/ every fucking game.
>>683785876why did they even keep in the chick sliding across the road at mach 10?
>>683774637I like their games but they can fuck right off with their DLC. Would probably give them more money if their DLC was condensed into larger, cheaper packages. I'm not paying $10 for a couple of reskins. Their launcher is also fucking gay. Imagine needing to install another launcher after buying a game from steam. The company makes decent games but have absolutely shit business practices.
>>683785876we have sims at home
>>683795286It's supposed to be a skateboard but it looks so shit and she's in the middle of traffic that it does look like she's being propelled across the road
>>683774637they would have died 10 years ago if they had any competition
Good, that company needs to die purely because of their dlc policy.
>>683774637That's what they get for having a lack of diversity.
Paradox needs more African, Muslim, trans, POC, LGBTQIA+, women, and overall disenfranchised developers and more blog posts about those groups and less about grand strategy games and they would do better. They had a lot of that for a while and I noticed they’ve been slipping lately, no coincidence the company is struggling now! Diversity is our Strength let’s not forget Paradox!
>>683794259>>683793856We'd just keep playing full conversion mods for CK/EU for another decade, it'll be fine. If Paradox only makes trash then they don't deserve to continue.
>>683797539they need to wokemaxx so when they fail, they can blame white men and republicans for pitybux from the government
I need my EU5.
>>683774637>operating profitIrrelevant metric. Ubisoft has had its operating profits at negative for two decades.Videogames are now funded by Larry, not consumers.
>>683798128>Ubisoft has had its operating profits at negative for two decades.Ubisoft is propped up by government grants. That's part of why they cannot successfully sell their company.
>>683798046You're the problem with gaming. How about instead of wasting your time and money on objective trash you save it and invest in yourself in some manner. I understand people like you are desperate for anything that will numb the pain you feel from our current soci8, but this is only making your life more miserableStep up anons. Stop supporting these trash devs. Do something else with your life that grows you
>>683787548No, chud, we all knew you were trying to fucking say.
>>683798128>>683798341i don't think anyone at ubisoft cares if they make a profit or not. if they did, they'd probably just have to pay taxes/dividends to whatever government programs that have subsidized them. i think the old guard at ubisoft have realized that it's much easier to pay themselves big salaries with government gibs than actually succeed
>>683785876>multiple scenes showing romance>all gay couplesnoticed
>>683776257CK3 and Stellaris are both bretty gud, (until the inevitable CPU death if you dare to actually play the game for a while), but actively harming themselves with their cancerous DLC blobs. I took one look at the store page and said fuck that pirate time lmao
>>683800146CK3 is breddy gud**still worse than 2
>>683775704there's only so many times you can sell the same DLC to the same handful of people before they just stop paying and stick the game they already have
>>683777195retarded suits are in charge of like 99% of companies, it's just that most companies are entrenched enough to not have to care or sell something so basic that it's near impossible to fuck up
>>683775745>business law written by jews forces goyim to take jew money or be sued by jewsgrim fate
>>683800146>CK3 and Stellaris are both bretty gud,CK3 is a glorified SIMS game that chases the "RPG" memes that the CK2 community made, over making an actually compelling GSG, still missing many features that the BASE(non-DLC) CK2 had, such as being able to tell your war allies where to go. Haven't played much of Stellaris but what I've played was a barebones 4X with GSG elements that tries hard to bank on your different political options. But all those do is give you differently flavored pop ups to read, with the gameplay still being the same among them.
>>683800486protip: jews cannot takeover your business without your consent
>>683779425>>683779537>>683781391Just "borrow" the DLC?
I just want a Sims-like game that isn't so bubbly and goofy like The Sims. Everyone in TS4 feels like the same person because they always have a wacky demeanor at all times.
>>683781129The low iq teenagers on /v/ do not understand the difference between taking on debt and increasing revenue.
>>683800708Play The Sims 2 then, zoomie
>>683777219Rimworld shows just how easy making an "acceptable" sim for an individual is, and with that simple model you can add complexity via interaction with other Sims/colonists.>Person has a bunch of "needs" such as sleep, food, recreation, hygiene, outdoors, social interaction, etc>As needs get lower person tries to refill them via using world object, interacting with other person, or just going for a walk if they want to go outside>Do things they like=mood go up>Do things they dislike or can't "do the needful", mood go down>Mood above X good event or whatever, mood below Y bad eventThat extremely simplistic system is all it takes to make a sim/pawn/whatever behave in a simplified but semi-realistic way, and adding on to that system or modifying it for certain people (ie; hates going outside instead of needing to or having mood loss), or simply making the social interaction caused by said needs more nuanced via it's own interaction system that's activated by the above Needs system is all it takes to make anywhere from a just acceptable social simulation to an actually impressive one, depending on how much effort is put into said system by devs.
>>683774637Everytime I look at their games to buy I realize its a 300 dollar endeavor to get all the basic features of an old game for a mediocre excel sheet and then I don't buy it. Fuck companies like Paradox and Creative Assembly
>>683800825Sims 2 is the same thing. Shit plays like a big cartoon
>>683784980Holy moses dont get my hopes up
>>683794353>XCOM clones?Are you retarded? Xenonauts 2 just came out and it is by far the best entry in that entire series, rivaled only by Xenonauts (1).
>>683774637They still made a profit retard.
>>683774637They need to go back to releasing FINISHED GAMES with a FEW MAJOR expansions. I don't even look at their shit because you buy the game and month there is a content pack. I don't like missing out on shit, so I'm not even bothering anymore. I can't even be assed to pirate their shit anymore. EU3 was perfect, the game was good. They made a few expansions for it which made it better. That's fine. But expansions every fucking month is just insane. Who has time to play enough to even learn what the differences and changes to all these expansions are?I think paradox got greedy once the autism-bucks from CKII chuds started coming in. But I'm suspecting many gamers are TIRED of the nonstop paid content additions.
>>683774637Where’s the shitty vtmb2 at
YOU CANT POST ON THIS SITE IF YOU HATE LIFE IS STRANGE YOU FUCKING QUEERS
>>683774637Based Johan is hogging every single paraducks resources for EU5
>>683804959If those are the map graphics that are going to be in the final game its looking awful, like HOI4 tier awful.
>>683805121It looks better than EU4, HOI4 and V3.
>>683804959This province density looks so fucking delicious but I just know it's going to release with a total of two dozen events and get old very very fast. Can I take a time portal to a future when it already has DLC and mods?
>>683805276>EU4 and V3On what planet? Those colors are especially bad
>>683774637I don't get why Life by You gets so much attention in the media when it looked like hot fucking garbage vaporware when they teaser it. I know people desperately want a Sims competitor but not once was I excited for what Paradox showcased, and to imply that was what put them down financially and somehow the colossal failure of a launch for Cities Skylines 2 isn't the main reason these """journalists"""" talk about. I thought I heard it was being developed by a small group as well.
>>683800751Or that not all debt is bad/useless to a company
>>683774637It all started really when they went public in 2016 NEVER go public it's so apparent at this point in the industry
Can a paratroon defender explain to me why CK3 still has nowhere near the content and replayability CK2 does? How is that defensible?
>>683776257I think City Skylines is the only game I ever bought twice because it randomly disapeared from my library, I couldn't even play it for 5 minutes before closing it and never playing it againEverything bad that happens to this company is 100% deserved
>>683774637Why are scandinavians so bad at making video games?
>>683777743Exactly, If I can't plop my entire inventory on the ground and literally leave my mark on the world by junking it up and being a filthy slob it's not a real role playing game
>>683777480>Pajeetsoft>Feminists>IndiansMake up your mind
>>683777496Good example, went from a studio of dudebro's to Starbucks drinking hipsters completely detached from the real world
>>683777684Sounds more like Suicide prevention. They are done and know it, they're just deciding if they're done with life or want to try one more fuck up
>>683775876Life is Strange is just bad>you can bring items back in time>except when you can't>you can take photos and have them exist in a different time period>except when you can't>breaks these rules within the first chapterlol, lmao, gotta have those plot points, god forbid you build the game around the mechanics you put into the FIRST FUCKING LEVEL
>>683774637but doubling the price of all their DLCs and replacing their art team with AI was supposed to save them!!
>>683785876This looks like some dudes Unity store asset discount sims, not a full on companies game.
>>683807793Swedish labour laws are legitimately insane, they can't fire anyone without justifying why to a court and legally they are barely allowed to workthey have like 3 month long mandatory holiday breaks a yeara large portion of their economy is also stockbros fucking around which is where shit like Embracer comes from, they have some kind of weird state capitalism mafia going on where they buy/invest everything to make sure "swedish voices are represented" aka their legion of CEOs are raking in cash while dictating a bunch of stupid shit
>>683777219It's code heavy, not particularly difficult, but your average gamedev uni course graduate junior won't be able to handle it. So not only do you need to 10x the code work, but it has to be done by expensive programmers, those that could actually work outside gamedevMost mainstream games are actually not that heavy on systems
>>683774637>Paradox is in a death spiralgood
It doesn't matter if EU5 is the best GS ever made, since the best GS is only for chuds and autists which the modern Paradrone is neither of. If it doesn't have pop culture historical trivia facts then it wont be popular, simple as.
>>683812669I think the game is going to be great but it will fail, most "pro" EUIV players are already disliking how it isn't arcade enough and that the ticks are going to ruin MP.
>>683774637Everyone bitching about DLC but that's not the problem, the problem is overstretching and missing quality controlsIt's funny that their expansion plans got big with CS1 and basically died with CS2. Turns out you actually need to release a good game before you can milk DLC for it
>>683774637>>683785876>Sims 3 came out in 2009More than a decade, is it really that hard to just make the same game but slightly better?
>>683777195It's notYou just don't pay attention when a grocery store or a phone carrier or an appliance maker does it
>>683800593>be private company>jews refuse you loans severely limiting you and possibly meaning bankruptcy>go public>jews can buy stock and shareholder supremacy means youre their onahole
>>683776257>sims clone>civ cloneWhen the fuck are they making a total war clone, it's the only one that I could trust them to not fuck up as bad as CA
>>683777219Koreans are making their Sims right now
>>683816252>realisticgay and boring, will flop hard
>>683774637Good. They've been abusing autists spending habits for too long.
>>683816442I don't know, it looks pretty
>>683816252>>683816678>even the previews render is subpar frameratesThis'll run even worse than sims 3 kek
>>683816252I Heart Uncannyslop
>>683778719>Sweden is the California of the nordic region.you mean from being ruined by immigrants
>>683774637Oh, they cancelled that shit? Not surprising, when they announced it I warned people Rod Humble was an even bigger hack than Todd.
>>683774637victoria 3 killed all my interest in paradox games. it actually retroactively killed my love of victoria 2 as well. selling, essentially, an early access game and then charging you $40 to fix it should be a criminal fucking offense
>>683817490As much as I enjoy Paradox games, this has been their policy for too long and now it's biting them in the ass
>>683817490Victoria 3 is the only game where I asked steam for my money back after buying it.
>>683782629>buy trilogy for 20 buckaroos>creampie the dlcsimple as
>>683775876>>683775976 >>683776085 >>683776152 >>683778601 >>683779520 >>683781216 >>683781593 >>683792045 >>683808609I fucking love that /v/ hates one of my favorite games personally
>>683774637Never even heard of this game, so maybe that was their problem.
>>683777219The thing with it is not even difficulty, but that every sims clone that got canned always forgot that life sim is not the entire point of the game and it is not supposed to be "come home from work to play a realistic game about work" thing. It's supposed to be this whimsy semi-realistic charming world full of cartoony people speaking gibberish with weird unusual or downright paranormal shit happening often with very lenient lifesim mechanics. Sims, no matter how life sim it got, always had its own identity. Adding realism to the formula is missing the point entirely, since realism is lacking identity by definition.That's why Rimworld is the only "proper" sims clone due to it being somewhat realistic, but still being detached from reality enough to make it fun and be its own unique thing, even if it doesn't go as batshit as sims does with stuff like ghost psychologists, unstoppable IRS agents stealing your shit or insane home invading clowns due to it being more of a colony sim rather than a life one.>tldr cut down on autism realism you fucking faggots
>>683818259>rimworld is just the sims for men
>>683816807I'll take low fps over californian slop. I'm also buying a 5090 when it's out.
>>683816807People are still playing Sims 3 and 4. If this game has that longevity then performance at launch won't matter in the long run.
>>683774637why cant developers develop anymore?
>>683775662Do you think blackrock buying stocks on the open market means that the company somehow gets that money? Paradox haven't taken on new capital on forever.
>>683817813one step away from ICP glow-up
>>683818789Can't just hire white and east asian men
>>683817490Their games from ck2 and beyond are basically only worth it on deep discount, it is unfortunate. I get that grand strategy is a niche genre so they need to get more money out of less people, but it's still scummy.
>>683818837ICP is fire too.
>>683818443Is he wrong?
>>683817683This.>waah, muh dlcThey are just better free updates, only redditors get mad at more content.
>>683781320>Victoria 3maintained by skeleton crew since it flopped hard>CK3maintained by slightly larger skeleton crew since youtubers love to pay $30 for its DLCs with a dozen text events for wacky videos about turning christianity into a nudist incest religion>Europa 4maintained by different team on the other side of Europe that mostly pumps out bugfixes and $30 DLC with different buttons for a country to press for free mana>Stellaris seems to be maintained by a slightly larger team that just keeps making shitty expensive DLC while reinventing mechanics to pretend the game is under constant development>HOI4ditto>Incoming DLC for Victoria 3You already mentioned that one>EU5 in development Considering all of their releases since Imperator I'm not hyped at all
>>683819464EUV will be good, trust the plan.
>>683819464>>683819812Aren't they removing mana for eu5? Just seems like it's going to make the game less unique
>>683774637So what's so bad about them anyway? I just got into tHeir games 2~ years ago with HOI4 and CK3. I exlusively play total conversion mods and use creamAPI to unlock all the DLC.I have more gripes about some mod teams taking forever to update rather then the base game devs themselves since I never play vanilla.
>>683787758Wasn't hard to find, some guys waifu.https://winkil.artstation.com/projects/6AkAx
>>683819940it looks like they’re trying to incorporate mechanics from meiou at a baseline. their dev diaries have honestly gotten me excited, but i’ve been burned one too many times by these faggot swedes
>>683819940No mana, at least for now.
>>683775910Second wind just did a video about cargo cult thinking and it applies to a huge chunk of the gaming industry. A lot of companies do shit just because other companies did and they think it's expected.
>>683818789>>683822724Competency Crisis. The stock that used to make your favorite games are no longer making games. Their kin is not in the industry anymore. The ones that inherited the infrastructure are not equipped to handle it, let alone maintain it.
