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.
You are talking about forum registration keys then, which are not necessary to run the game, and indeed don't actually do anything any more as the forums are all open now.
So noob question. I only see the main game and 1 DLC on my games tab (I bought everything on steam). I synced in my forum profile and I see the DLCs in my forum profile. But I still only see the base game and 1 DLC on my games tab. Is this a bug or feature?
Not really clear what you mean by 'my games tab'. I can see everything from Paradox store on both my forum profile (https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/prdx-owned-items/ ) and on the account link from the store (https://accounts.paradoxplaza.com/games ). That link adds a few non-software things I've gotten from the store though. I can certainly see Steam items that pre-date the launcher but just bought Lithoids on Steam to test and after syncing it showed up on forum profile and after doing 'update' in launcher it shows up there too but not yet on https://accounts.paradoxplaza.com/games; not really critical as long as it shows up in the launcher. Odd though since if older stuff appears I'd expect new stuff to as well.
Not that weird since they're two separate lists; e.g. the account page shows stuff that has no forum icon. Weirder is that it doesn't show it there when it does show in the PDX launcher. That it shows pre-launcher Steam games but not those purchased after the launcher was 'launched' (which you wouldn't see if you didn't buy any PDX games before that) would suggest they did a one-time sync at some point but aren't syncing going forward.
The "if Steam collapses" scenario is probably not an issue as long as Paradox still exists. When other distribution platforms have gone away many/most of the game devs re-released their games on Steam. Gearbox took some months to rework the Borderlands MP code that had been dependent on another platform and this was long after Borderlands 2 had been released. The major issue would be games where the dev studio no longer exists (I had a game that happened to). Given that Paradox is already working on MP code independent of Steam (see the Stellaris cross-play beta) they would probably have no problem moving to a different platform.
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No, but also yes. The distribution client in its current shape will not be released on MacOS. However, we have other things in the works that I hope will scratch your itch. I'm not ready to announce exactly what it is yet though.
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Thanks for the reply!