SO many cancelled games.... and they're going under too LMFAOOOOO

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/the-dark-age-of-paradox-interactive-what-exactly-happened-to-one-of-pc-gamings-best-publishers/

>2024

>>2058298 (OP)
I hope Victoria 3 gets cancelled and Gilded Destiny takes its place

>>2058298 (OP)
>one-of-pc-gamings-best-publishers/

>>2058298 (OP)
it's over paradogbros

>published 10 October 2024
ban brown people from using this board

Johann Rex Andersson's Magnum Opus EU5 will single-handedly save both Paradox and the GSG genre

>>2058343
it's vic3 but even worse ui and less content

>>2058351
*more content
It has current EU4 content as base

>>2053574
>>2053574

what did he know?

>>2058300
>>2058330
Retarded adhd zoomers

>>2058343
it will save 14th century european demographics

>>2058298 (OP)
They literally haven't been good since crusader kings 2
Stellaris was the last game of theirs even somewhat interesting and they have fucked that up too
Rest in piss

victoria 3 is a leftsim simulator, slavery bad, communism good, debt good
eu5 even if by some miracle isnt shit would nee at least 6-8 years of dlc support to have content which would put it on par with eu4

/gsg/nigger thread
OP is a gigantic faggot along with his fellow threadshitters

>>2058506
Paradox was only ever "good" in a fairly brief window in like early '10s.
Eu3, Vic2, Hoi3 era is fine but it didn't really become "good" until late in their lifetime either and they were still pretty janky niche games. Stuff before that is pretty much too archaic to be worth any consideration.
CK2 was the breakout hit for the studio, It had ups and downs and eded up pretty bloated but I feel like it still ended on a high note. Eu4 was teh second big hit but that was somewhat controversial from the start and vastly overstayed it's welcome with some absolute garbage DLC.
Feeling the money they also started really moronic attempt at becoming a "real" publisher with things like buying out battletech only to nto do anything with it, white wolf to close it because of controversy and let WoD IP rot, getting on Prison Arcvhitect bandwagon years late to make some mobile port nobody cares about, shit out a few low effort DLC long past the games time and failing to make a seqel etc etc. They burned huge amounts of money while their main titles are made by a team of like literally 2 glorified modder faggots who can't do anything other than write events.

>2058298
>STRAIGHTS
straits

yes thank you at paradox it is imperative that we avoid misgendering and assuming anyones sexuality

>>2058298 (OP)
the 1 time sale and full transfer of ownership model has failed.
companies would need to make new games all the time and they cannot be too good because people would keep playing those and not buy new ones. it does not work.
the subscription model is the solution and those yuropoors were too retarded to see it. wanna play for an hour? pay for an hour.

>>2060551
They've already been offering subscriptions. They introduced that a while back because otherwise the games like EU4 late in their lifecycle are just impenetrable with the DLC model. Playing without all the DLC is a shitty experience because random mechanics get paywalled behind even unrelated DLCs so it was a bad entry point even if they pretend it's possible to play. They are charging like $10 a month for each of their games separately though rather than have a paracuck pass or something, but it still might be a better deal if you are only interested in playing a few campaigns.

>>2060551
Only MMOs have made subscriptions actually work, your options are microtransactions or DLC spam

>>2060951
Nowadays we start having gamepass type shit and it seems fairly popular. We'll see if that actually ends up a viable buisness model though

>>2060575
how much would you pay for a paracuck pass?

>>2061130
It's always a question of price, isn't it?
I believe the business model is workable for both sides of the equation, but I studied enough production economics at university to know that the company is incentivized to charge as much as whales are willing to pay for it, with other factors being marginal.

>>2058298 (OP)
EuV will save them, I mean they literality fled to another country and hired only mod makes and those who already loved the game instead of the far leftist that ruined literally every other game they had.

Seriously why can't leftist make games.

>>2060551
Or games could have a limited dev cycle like they used to, instead of endless dlc Jew nonsense.

>>2061348
The feedback loop for modern paradox fans is pay for DLC, play DLC as whatever powercreep modifier spam tag they changed, get bored of it because there's no substance there and want something new, then pay for DLC again.

Meanwhile Victoria 2, that hasn't received an update in over a decade still has an active community of players.

>>2061253
Because it's not about the game for them. The game or the making of a game is just another means that they must seize for their own ends.

>>2058298 (OP)
I hope and genuinely really that they fucking go bankrupt
Useless piece of shit of a worthless fucking company

>>2058298 (OP)
Nothing to worry anons, I am sure their next DLC will save them.

>>2060551
either bait or genuine trannoid retarded
if you make mediocre shit nobody going to buy it and you will go bankrupt
also you are entitled cunt which thinks that somehow making one good product means everyone should pay you forever for all subsequent shi. Imagine if grmm wrote first book of asoiaf and then just wrote complete shit afterwards and when people compalined he would tell them that they are ungrateful little shits. thats you.
I am not gonna pay you fucking anything, make good product you will get a fair reward. You are not entitled to anything more than that.

>>2061253
mod makers are leftists

>>2062493
I doubt they will any time soon. Companies can live on as zombies shitting out shovelware for a very long time. Especially since paracuck games are all made by like 2 people and an intern each. Instead of reinvesting in the games they are just driving down cost. They don't need that many paypigs to keep going, they've optimised their business model for it.

>>2058298 (OP)
>straights

>>2058351
>vic3 with less content
impossible

>>2058506
Haven't been good since march of the eagles