Didn't paradox say this game was going to be unoptimised on launch?

[NoName]

If you guys still bought the game knowing that, you brought this on yourself

[Neme]

I do remember seeing something about that not to long ago

[Amber [CatinHat]]

sounds like Sword of the Stars again...

"We’re changing our QA processes based on this game, and we’re changing the whole model of how we make games with third parties. We’ve added amendments to existing contracts to prepare, to try and stop it from happening again."

"But it was bad, and I’m the first to admit it was my fault and we’re doing our best to fix it."
https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/2012-27-01-paradox-sword-of-the-stars-2-was-a-big-failure

There was an article that had this gem from long ago...

"Another thing is we didn’t have enough producers to actually take a good look at the game and actually decide if the game was good or not."
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/2wciuh/paradox_admits_it_shoved_sword_of_the_stars_ii/

Sword of the Stars 2 was the last of bundle of failures before Paradox changed their practices. I guess those polices cost to much money... now we have the failures of Star Trek Infinite and Cities: Skylines II.


Really its a failure of Paradox and the developer.

[briansterling81]

unoptimized can mean many things. Completely unplayable for a non-insignificant portion of buyers is not generally one of them. I bought the game before the announcement but I honestly can't say I wouldn't have bought it anyway because I expected it to be playable on my system that is WAY above min specs. I would say Paradox brought the negative reviews on themselves. I'll never pre-order or release day purchase from Paradox again for sure.

[wolfpost]

Games working fine for me.

[SoddenStar]

So why would they release it if it wasn't optimized? And to all the people saying that the game runs fine, even the devs themselves know it doesn't.

[Explicable]

Originally posted by NoName:

If you guys still bought the game knowing that, you brought this on yourself

Does that make it okay? No. It should be illegal to sell a broken game as a "full release". This should have been an early access at best. And they should only be allowed to charge up to 30$ for something in this state. The game industry is so fked now. Every release this year has been a nightmare.