TIME TO BOYCOTT PARADOX AND COLOSSAL ORDER GAMES

[Iron Man]

DO NOT ENCOURAGE THIS GREEDY BEHAVIORS OF GAMING COMPANIES WHO DON'T CARE IF THEY RELEASED AN UNFINISHED GAME.

[Boycott PDX and CO]

Yes, it's MY time :)

[𝓕𝔁]

Yup, that's the plan.

I was thinking of PA2, but with everything going on recently, Paradox can stick it up their rear end. I'm done with them.

[Apples]

Honestly when it comes to game companies, if they make a genuinely *good* game, i'll buy it regardless of which game company/publisher it is.

But obviously depending on who they are i may be more cautious, before i would do so.



The only things that will stop me buying games is:

Store Exclusivity (Epic Games for example, and i try to avoid anything to do with Microsoft Store tbh)

Always online for a single player game (SimCity 2013)

Trying to force games down the path of subscription gaming. (aka Microsoft; no thank you, it would cost me more long term than it would buying the games i would play)

[Alarwyn Devan]

The game last a real update back in October, no mod support has materialized as was once promised, and the only thing we get is a "word of the week" bit that ignores the games huge issues and provides a bit of a fluff piece as "engagement" which apparently replaces any attempt to make the content that was advertised in order to get those initial purchases.

I wholeheartedly agree with boycotting both the Dev. studio and the publishing studio involved in this fiasco. If some miracle lawsuit let us delete the game and get our money back I would do it in an instant.

It runs like rubbish, has no mod support, and the simulation itself is broken to the point where it can harm or even outright end your city with its problems no matter what you do. Your only choice to keep playing at that point is use unsupported Mods and hope one of those can fix your issue.

Too bad steam does not curate who is allowed to put a game on their platform, because if they did neither company should be allowed to have sales here after this morally ambiguous release of what they call a "game".

[ste]

Their attitude absolutely stinks, I dont know if its arrogance or the snowflake generation that just cant handle anything but praise and they just want pats on the back no matter what or a combination.

They still cant admit any wrong doing or blame and no sort of apology. And have the nerve to insult their customers. And banning people for being annoyed. They are shameless scum. I cant be any politer than that.

Their casual nature, yeah, the game aint great but, but some people still enjoy it, and we can decide whenever to fix it at out pace, just accept it.

If they werent so arrogant they might be embarrassed

[The Met4l God]

Originally posted by Alarwyn Devan:

The game last a real update back in October, no mod support has materialized as was once promised, and the only thing we get is a "word of the week" bit that ignores the games huge issues and provides a bit of a fluff piece as "engagement" which apparently replaces any attempt to make the content that was advertised in order to get those initial purchases.

I wholeheartedly agree with boycotting both the Dev. studio and the publishing studio involved in this fiasco. If some miracle lawsuit let us delete the game and get our money back I would do it in an instant.

It runs like rubbish, has no mod support, and the simulation itself is broken to the point where it can harm or even outright end your city with its problems no matter what you do. Your only choice to keep playing at that point is use unsupported Mods and hope one of those can fix your issue.

Too bad steam does not curate who is allowed to put a game on their platform, because if they did neither company should be allowed to have sales here after this morally ambiguous release of what they call a "game".

They Word of the Week told you what the roadmap to modding was. The modding tools are still in Alpha and they plan on rolling out certain aspects of it over the course of the year.

[The Met4l God]

Originally posted by Iron Man:

DO NOT ENCOURAGE THIS GREEDY BEHAVIORS OF GAMING COMPANIES WHO DON'T CARE IF THEY RELEASED AN UNFINISHED GAME.

Well if you consider DLC constituting a complete game, then I guess you can pick up the finished game in about 10 years.

[Daedalos]

Originally posted by Alarwyn Devan:

Too bad steam does not curate who is allowed to put a game on their platform, because if they did neither company should be allowed to have sales here after this morally ambiguous release of what they call a "game".

There is is simple explanation why Steam does not curate the games: money
Do I need to say more?
BTW, Developer/Publisher/Retailer are not a gamer's friend, usually they are all business owned by investors, who yearn only short term profit. Bless the fiew small exceptions

[GeekedOnJenkem]

Originally posted by Iron Man:

DO NOT ENCOURAGE THIS GREEDY BEHAVIORS OF GAMING COMPANIES WHO DON'T CARE IF THEY RELEASED AN UNFINISHED GAME.

I've already uninstalled the game. I refuse to purchase anything else from Colossal Order until CS2 is fixed. The CEO is arrogant so this may take a while. Did they seriously think we'd let them take our money without delivering a finished product? It's been months! Fix the game already!

[Jojo]

Paradox are a sinking ship, I think. They've seemingly lost their ability to release quality games. With the exception of CK3, I think all their releases over the past 4 or 5 years have been duds?

[JimmysTheBestCop]

Originally posted by Jojo:

Paradox are a sinking ship, I think. They've seemingly lost their ability to release quality games. With the exception of CK3, I think all their releases over the past 4 or 5 years have been duds?

Look up their releases since they went public 2016. It's a disaster list

[The Met4l God]

Originally posted by JimmysTheBestCop:

Originally posted by Jojo:

Paradox are a sinking ship, I think. They've seemingly lost their ability to release quality games. With the exception of CK3, I think all their releases over the past 4 or 5 years have been duds?

Look up their releases since they went public 2016. It's a disaster list

They changed CEOs in 2021 (appointing co-founder Fredrik Wester as CEO) and decided to focus on core IPs instead of just anything/everything.

[JimmysTheBestCop]

Originally posted by The Met4l God:

Originally posted by JimmysTheBestCop:

Look up their releases since they went public 2016. It's a disaster list

They changed CEOs in 2021 (appointing co-founder Fredrik Wester as CEO) and decided to focus on core IPs instead of just anything/everything.

Doesn't appeared to have helped. They had 3 failures in October. Star Trek, lamplighter league and cs2

[The Met4l God]

Originally posted by JimmysTheBestCop:

Originally posted by The Met4l God:

They changed CEOs in 2021 (appointing co-founder Fredrik Wester as CEO) and decided to focus on core IPs instead of just anything/everything.

Doesn't appeared to have helped. They had 3 failures in October. Star Trek, lamplighter league and cs2

You do know games take longer than 2 years to make, right?

[JimmysTheBestCop]

Originally posted by The Met4l God:

Originally posted by JimmysTheBestCop:

Doesn't appeared to have helped. They had 3 failures in October. Star Trek, lamplighter league and cs2

You do know games take longer than 2 years to make, right?

Irrelevant. Still his decision to release games that weren't ready for launch. Which means they should have either been cancelled in development or delayed and not have had their releases when they did.

He has a board and majority stock holders to answer. It's about turning profit not making a good game for the gaming community. It's about how to milk more money. If the game happens to be good it's just a bonus for them.

Lamplighter league still had a day 1 dlc for 8 bux while 75% of the dev studio was fired over the summer and they knew the rest of the studio would soon follow.

He is CEO now while they still have a dlc #2 posted for sale on steam for empire of sin. A declared dead game the developers abandoned. But pdox is still selling a non existent dlc that will never ever be made.

You also forgot to mention he was CEO until 2018 and only had less then 36 months before becoming CEO again.

So cut out this defender of the faith garbage.