Am I the only one who understands why PDX released 2.2 like this?

[C.N.]

As i understand it Battletech and Surviving Mars is developed by other companies. Paradox is just the publisher. How much they have been involved in development in those games who knows.

(More like City Skylines and Surviving Mars.)
It's true that games developed by others give in less direct money, but they also cause less direct costs for PDX.
My point is that there is no need for Megacorp sales to save Q4. Has there even been a quarter with six releases before?

 

[CrowScape]

Paradox could have waited until the holidays were over, but wanted us to have the game during holidays when most of us would be free.

Yes, I'm sure Paradox released a buggy, game-breaking patch just before Christmas break out of the kindness of their hearts. They wanted us to experience the crippling lag and broken end game for ourselves. As a gift.

Yes, yes, I know I'm leaving scores of things out, but I only managed to get back to Stellaris last week.

They knew it won't be enough, and I do not like the practice of rushing something before Christmas, but it was that or leave us with nothing until the holidays are over. Sometimes you have to make do with the current situation

And sometimes, nothing is greater than something.

 

[MK1980]

if the intent was to make it available over the christmas holidays, then they failed. at least from my POV. i tried it a bit right after release and decided it's too broken to even finish the first campaign and haven't even touched it ever since.

they will patch it up to a playable/enjoyable state sooner or later. i don't really doubt that. but they should have fixed more and released it later, imo. hope they learn a bit from the backlash they received and will be a bit more reluctant to release too early in the future.