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Paradox Interactive - What happened

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by RPGWatch, Oct 11, 2024.

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    The Dark Age of Paradox Interactive: What exactly happened to one of PC gaming's best publishers?

    From disappointing launches to delays to cancellations, it's been a rough time for the Swedish publisher, but it's trying to bounce back.

    Paradox Interactive once encapsulated the best parts of PC gaming. As a publisher, it celebrated niches like grand strategy and had a huge hand in expanding their popularity into full-blown genres. It took risks on new developers and gave modders the chance to create full-fledged games. There were missteps and mistakes, but from both the publishing and development side the Swedes kept knocking out bangers.

    Penumbra, Mount & Blade, Crusader Kings, Stellaris, Cities: Skylines, Surviving Mars, Magicka, Age of Wonders, BattleTech-its library of games includes an impressive number of all-time greats. The Paradox of 2024, though, seems to be in free fall.
    • Originally slated for 2020, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has seen constant delays and a developer switcheroo. It now won't be out until 2025.
    • Cities: Skylines 2's first DLC was so poorly received and timed that everyone was refunded and it was added to the base game.
    • Millennia landed with a thud, following a similar response to Star Trek: Infinite and Lamplighters League.
    • Life By You, the much-touted Sims competitor from Rod Humble and Paradox Tectonic, was delayed and then cancelled right before its early access launch.
    • Prison Architect 2 was delayed indefinitely, soon after its original developer was replaced.
    • Paradox announced a 90% dip in operating profit in its second quarter of 2024.
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