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After Life by You's disastrous end, Paradox chalks up a 90% drop in operating profit for Q2: 'We end the second quarter of the year with mixed feelings' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[Wester, Paradox' CEO] "amid the well-deserved self-criticism, it is worth reminding ourselves that we have solid footing, because the foundation of our business is doing well."

No, Wester, you don't have solid footing. Stop fooling yourselves.

The solid footing for a game developer is the players' trust, something that Paradox has been using as toilet paper since 2016~2018 or so. At this rate you're only waiting for other companies to release grand strategy games - or even tweak their 4X games into GSG - and you're done, since you're still living off the CK/EU/Vicky series.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hope and dream for the day somebody makes the clausewitz engine look like the fucking dinosaur it is. I initially hoped it would be paradox but any loyalty to them has been squandered years ago.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Ditto. It isn't just a matter of watching Paradox to get rekt (although the idea gives me warm feelings), but also that the engine is... bad. As in, we're in 2024 and it has codification issues, pathfinding is awful, and I'm almost certain that part of the EU4 fort woes are caused by the devs working around engine limitations.