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Crusader Kings III Available Now!
The realm rejoices as Paradox Interactive announces the launch of Crusader Kings III, the latest entry in the publisher’s grand strategy role-playing game franchise. Advisors may now jockey for positions of influence and adversaries should save their schemes for another day, because on this day Crusader Kings III can be purchased on Steam, the Paradox Store, and other major online retailers.
The imaginary person asking you questions is rather rude...
Thank you for your work. I imagine it's very important, so the games are made for players, not the devs who already know how everything works.
Thank you for your work. I imagine it's very important, so the games are made for players, not the devs who already know how everything works.
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She may be weak, but her learning is amazing, especially since CK3 has no artifacts or societies to bump that stat (and she's not even a Mastermind Theologian)!
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Huh, I think using exclusively players already familiar with PDX games might not be quite a good indicative of the overall picture.
CK3 being played by someone coming from CK2 (or even another PDX game) will look very different from someone fresh into these games, it's worlds apart.
Also, we are now 4 DDs away from release, might be nice to use them to showcase the rest of the world outside of Western Europe.
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I'm sure they are scheming some kind of mobile freemium game. It is a sad path companies like to go down for some reason.
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Cool how much thought has been put into this game.
My user experience with this dev diary would be improved greatly by more screenshots... even if they are of just random characters and things.
My user experience with this dev diary would be improved greatly by more screenshots
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These portraits are mobile-tier awful, why in the world were they considered a viable option? Jesus, had you stuck with them you would just drown in negative feedback and your playerbase's faith in CK3 would be irreparably shaken right after its announcement.
Please slap the person who came up with them.
Please slap the person who came up with them.
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So you're saying you and your team were responsible for setting portraits off the cartoony path and on the path to what we have today? In that case, you're my heroes and I wish I could buy you all a grand feast. The new portraits are a big reason I'm so excited for CK3, and those early ones... I don't know how excited I would have been if that were the style of the final look...
I wouldn't take her lightly if I came up against her. They say the pen is mightier than the sword, and look at that 27 Learning stat!
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Probably because a great many people have mobile devices and use them regularly. I don't expect PDS will be going there anytime soon, though. Their games fit a popular niche, and they do so because of depth that would be incredibly difficult to capture with mobile hardware.
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If you read the entire dev diary, you'll see that they perform many tests, and one of them at least involved total newbies.
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Great to hear about your work; this is something paradox games definitely need in addition to bug testing. Would it be possible to use these methods to help with balancing and the late-game experience too? While not entirely practical, seems you'd also want some data on how the back end of a centuries long campaign goes in order to help keep CK3 a great experience throughout an entire campaign. Could also help with some other Paradox titles such as Stellaris or EU4 where the fun tends to die down after a certain amount of time...
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STOP! COOKIE TIME