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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.

[–] Skullgrid 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was so intrigued when I thought the name of the game was "Afterlife by you"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Indeed, we need an afterlife version of the sims lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Well deserved. Maybe they can get bought up by EA to make the irony of what they have become even more perfect.