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Who runs the facebook, twitter pages etc?

If you refer to the Paradox facebook page and twitter it's a combination of Regina, myself, Fred and Sus.

The other ones we get help from devs and community volunteers.

You hear the phrase "who tweeted that?!" at least twice a day.

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Please post in the rome forum, this thread is not for tech support.
 

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2 questions.
1 how many work in every game( i am talking about the big games like hoi3,vic2,..... ( i mean now for patches ,expansions ....
2 when vic 3 come and is profitable what fredrick is going to do( wear his underwear in the head maybe
3 are you going to create a game starting:rofl: from - 1000 bc to 2600 ac
 
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Now when Majesty 2 Collection is out, is the franchise been put to sleep for now (no more expansions or sequels for time being) ?

Is Paradox considering resurrecting some other ancient title and bringing it to current century (only maybe doing it yourself this time) ?

( P.S. Where can i apply for CK2 alpha testing ? ;-)

Majesty is going to be around for a long long time. We're releasing Defenders Of Ardania, which is set in the Majesty universe.

Expect to hear more stuff within the next 12 months.

We've always got an eye for the "old stuff" and looking for sensible way to bring them back. Which ones would you like to see?


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We've always got an eye for the "old stuff" and looking for sensible way to bring them back. Which ones would you like to see?

Kingmaker!
 

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We've always got an eye for the "old stuff" and looking for sensible way to bring them back. Which ones would you like to see?

I think PI could do justice to Age of Wonders. :) One of my favorite games.

I'd leave to see a new Kings of Dragon Pass, but I'm not sure it's up PI's ally. It's a bit in a genre of its own.
 

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Which ones would you like to see?

I'd want someone to do a game like The Guild - it was such a great idea for a game and sequels just sucked while add-ons to them were simple rip-offs adding nothing, fixing close to not bugs and charging lots of money for them. They murdered the series basically and then they stabbed the dead body repeatedly when the police was on site already. :)

Not sure you ever seen it. It was a game where you'd play a dude of one of a few occupations sometime in the late middle ages. You'd "be" the head of a family and would have to plan a career and a future for all your kids and whole clan entirely.

It was an RPG where your character could just work the canyon crushing stones all day, working crops on his farm, serving beer in his tavern, feeding cows like in Minecraft - or use family and employees to do those jobs, but he could also start politically influencing the city competing against other AI families or just focus on dominating trade and crafting in the city flooding the market with own goods and buying out buildings in the city one after another. MMO/multiplayer options for expansion would be huge in a game like that - but even in single player a game like that would be fun and most importantly very unique.

I bet there's a lot of people very angry at how The Guild series was handled and those "orphans" Paradox could adopt if they made a similar game - since noone else seems to be willing to expand into this kind of a hybrid game. There's also plenty of Anno and CK2 fans that could be lured in.

Even if you don't pick it for a separate game, I think it'd be good if Salem devs took a good long look at this title while their game is still at design stage. It really had a ton of unique ideas in it that noone else ever reproduced in another title.
 

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I know, it's not exactly AoW, but i think you would be interested in Elemental: War of Magic

Last thing i heard was that they are porting KoDP for iphone and it's not that dead.

Elemental crossed my path before, but never looked into it much. Maybe time to change that. What do you think of it?

I totally wasn't aware of KoDP iphone port. It pleases me that the developers are still active. I don't care much for apple ports, but it does leave open the possibility for future development. :D
 

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I haven't actually played it yet :eek:o but i heard it was quite buggy at release. They have patched it, so it might be better now. They were planning releasing demo version of it after the official release, so you might want to wait and have half hands-on oppinion on it before purchase.

Yeah, I heard about the buginess, and it took a few patches to fix it. But the whole buginess talk sort off drowned the talk whether the game was actually good. :p

Wikipedia says a demo was planned for September 2010. I doubt they're going to release it still now.
 

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I'd want someone to do a game like The Guild - it was such a great idea for a game and sequels just sucked while add-ons to them were simple rip-offs adding nothing, fixing close to not bugs and charging lots of money for them. They murdered the series basically and then they stabbed the dead body repeatedly when the police was on site already. :)

I played the game for some time... The original that is, not the sequel. I loved the idea, but I really hated when my workers run away with all my property and did not come back until half a year later. :-( It kind of ruined my experience.
 

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I'd like some kind of Machiavelli/Merchant Prince remake.

Perhaps with more weight given to art, intrigue, and politicking in Renaissance Italy and less to trading/exploring. But a pure remake of Merchant Prince on Clausewitz would be awesome :)