An open letter to Paradox

[Darkrenown]

As a trivial example completely out of proportion with the tutorial request (so, it is fighting dirty ), just about all customers of Paradox games are clamoring for significantly more bughunting, balancing, interface programming, and general testing before game release, which taken together would probably expand the development time by 40%-50% (given the short length of the current development cycle), but it is not clear that it would generate enough extra buyers to pay off.

Why does that sort of thing have to cost a lot? The answer would seem to be more betatesters. I know it takes time to manage the testers so a limit is imposed on the total number possible to coordinate before it cuts too much into development time. Ok. But Johan has also said 3/4 of the testers drop out during testing, for various reasons. Why then not harvest the forum for additional testers? I'm sure I'm not the only one here that would have been thrilled to be offered a beta slot, and I'm sure we could have helped.

 

[Darkrenown]

again thanks a lot to Rafiki, Memmon and all the others !

See, you two DO get all the credit!

(Just an old joke with those 2, Gil, I'm not really mad )

 

[Darkrenown]

Once again, there won't be a tutorial. Not an official one or a fan-made one. The parts of tutorial there are around are AFAIK only what was about tutorial in HoI code, to make it work would require access to the source.

BTW, Grosshaus, I hope you didn't think I was being an ass by bringing out the tutorial pics right after you said this. It's just after you said that I started wondering how much work it would take to get the tutorial working, so I tried a couple of things, fully expecting it to fail, and it worked

 

[Castellon]

Just a couple of points.
1) To those who complain that the forums are English only, Perhaps you totally missed the other language forums on the main screen, Including I might add a French language one.
2) Please do not say support is no good since I am esentailly the Tech support guy for Paradox games, and you will be hard pressed to look in one of my forums for any Paradox game including Victoria and tell me support sucks. Compare these forums to other game company support forums and I think you will find you have nothing to complain about here.

 

[Castellon]

Excelente!

Eu falo un poco de Portuges tambem!

The rules require English language posts in this forum guys.

 

[Darkrenown]

:rofl:

 

[Darkrenown]

And spent all last night spamming the boards about what a great guy he is and how he'd never do anything like that.

 

[Johan]

Victoria is not given up on.. However, its a stable, balanced and bugfree game at this point.

Some new guys have been taken into the vicky beta group this week though.

 

[Darkrenown]

Welcome back, hopefully we'll get more patches to address some of those CTD bugs, tarriff, barrel, dreadnaught, etc. bug?

Well they're reported anyway, hard to say when Johan will have time away from HoI2 to fix them though.