Crusader Kings II Review (BWheatley)
edit: after paradox pooped the bed again recently 2024-04-18
This is the final straw for me with paradox games.
It pains me deeply to say that as a fan of paradox developed games, and published games going back to being a kid playing HOi1.
HOI1 was janky poop, but you could see the potential, you could see the love and attention, you could see paradox sticking with it. The last 2 decades have seen you guys lose your path, i loved this star trek game, and i just had thought, ok paradox will stand by it and fix it up like you did with imperator rome.
Then you dicked over harebrained schemes, who made the amazing battletech, it's not them it's you paradox. You guys are screwing up, you have lost your way, stop chasing profit and start chasing good games.
You dicked over the Cities devs, you dicked over the star trek devs.
Take care of your people, stop being greedy. I was ok with the DLC system you guys had because it was good meaty content worth the 10-20 bucks. But you putting the screws to yoru devs and then just throwing them under a bus and saying they are screwing up??
No sir, if it was just one of your dev teams ok maybe. But when it's multiple dev teams that you're throwing under a bus, i think it speaks more that your fish is rotting from the head.
I'm going to leave this bad review on ALL my paradox games. I'm going to remove all my wish lists for paradox games.
I don't want you to go under, I want you to get back to basics, making good games, taking care of your people, focus on the fundamentals of your business and stop being greedy and selfish.
I looked forward for years to telling my son about how great paradox was and I can't do that anymore.