Game has been broken for 3 months now after the release of the most anticipated DLC the game ever had
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i blame the obama administration, but I bet the flying spaghetti monster cultists are behind this too
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I suspect that paradox has stopped any real development of eu4, instead milking it for dlc while they work on eu5. They really showed disregard for the players after releasing a broken patch and going on holidays the week after.
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A global pandemic struck as the dev team was in a transition/dissolution period for their move to Spain, and in that same period was their mandated vacation time. There's like 3 layers of reasons why nothing much got done.
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Team felt confident they could patch it before the summer holidays. Paradox should hire more pessimists like me.
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If there's anything I learned from working in software development, is if you think something will take 1 year, it will probably take 2.
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The pandemic hit long before the release, they could have delayed the release to fix things.
As for vacations, they can be moved or rescheduled. Especially when the majority of employees probably already had any plans cancelled.
It was a decision by Paradox to release the expansion as broken as it was. It was a decision by Paradox to go on vacation without fixing significant issues. We need to call out Paradoxfor unacceptable actions.
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and heeereee we go again.
major bugfixing patch for any DLC usually comes 6-8 weeks after DLC, including free map and mission tree updates for areas in last DLC. It has been that amount of time, and the patch 1.31 will likely arrive soon.
Its true that this likely has been the most buggy DLC patch ever, but DLC problems have been adressed. So all in all its just the usual free patch problems that get dealt with in next patch. Hotfix does not usually fix these, as its not so easy as it looks.
I'm sure it would have been WAY better if they had let everyone wait for emperor until September, so everyone wouldn't have played eu4 in summer, only to hop into CK3 after (sarcasm). For obvious reasons (money) they did not want this, so they released emperor a month before their vacation.
Its debatable however whether or not it was realistic to fix a DLC path in 4 weeks, before their holiday, or if the dead radio silence of DEVS on game breaking bugs in the free patch was showing respect to the community.
major bugfixing patch for any DLC usually comes 6-8 weeks after DLC, including free map and mission tree updates for areas in last DLC. It has been that amount of time, and the patch 1.31 will likely arrive soon.
Its true that this likely has been the most buggy DLC patch ever, but DLC problems have been adressed. So all in all its just the usual free patch problems that get dealt with in next patch. Hotfix does not usually fix these, as its not so easy as it looks.
I'm sure it would have been WAY better if they had let everyone wait for emperor until September, so everyone wouldn't have played eu4 in summer, only to hop into CK3 after (sarcasm). For obvious reasons (money) they did not want this, so they released emperor a month before their vacation.
Its debatable however whether or not it was realistic to fix a DLC path in 4 weeks, before their holiday, or if the dead radio silence of DEVS on game breaking bugs in the free patch was showing respect to the community.
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This not being unusual for Paradox shouldn’t be a defense, it should be a condemnation that they keep their shitty business are continuing.
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No, this time you are wrong. It's in fact a Russo-Chinese conspiracy. They want to bring down the Swedish Gaming industry. It's a war against fun. Because there's a correlation between fun and democracy.
EDIT: damn it, now that I think about it, it actually makes sense....!
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I've played thousands of hours of EU4, for years straight, played it a few times since 1.30 came out due to the bugs, not touched it in 5 weeks.
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If only they had some way of knowing they would go on vacation and move to Spain, they could had readjusted their game publishing schedule.
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Have not touched the game since June. It's worth nothing atm with all the bugs and broken balance.
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Paradox does make the choices that lead to this fan outrage, and they don't deserve a free pass because they've done this before, quite the contrary. I've written about this issue recently and while I think their silence prior to Johan's post was a mistake rather than an outright decision, but it reflects very badly on the company ontop of the already broken DLC.
Trust isn't just an EU4 game mechanic.
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I'm fairly certain it's illegal (under Swedish law) to reschedule or deny already approved vacations (which usually are requested well in advance since booking is cheaper then) without exceptional reasons. Some minor bugs and balance issues in a game certainly aren't even close to sufficient cause - there was even controversy about cancelling/decreasing the vacations of medical personnell to handle the increased pressure on hospitals from the corona pandemic. Sweden isn't USA, workers actually have the right to decent conditions here.
Sweden also cancelled all restrictions on domestic travel as early as June, so that wouldn't have affected summer vacations except for those optimistic enough to plan a trip abroad.
Basically, the only "decision" Paradox had in the matter was to delay the release date until sometime around now at the earliest, but I would assume quite a few people would have been upset by that and, besides, this way everyone had a choice of whether to play 1.30 or backtrack to 1.29 instead of being limited to only 1.29 during a summer of widespread quarantines all over the world. I don't think giving people that choice was wrong.
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Its broken enough, I've been playing Imperator, which appears to have potential perhaps someday.....but, is more broken than EU IV at the moment.
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They did stop real development, but not due to some reason as "milking with DLCs!" or "Working on EU5"
The thing is that EU4 will no longer be developed by Paradox, and instead this game and its successors will be developed by the new studio they are founding in Spain which will be headed by Johan (which also suggests that most of the team won't continue working on it).
Paradox still works on it, but one shouldn't expect much in this transitioning phase. It's possible that much of the team has already been moved to other projects.
Maybe they should have delayed this business decision until EU4 is in a more stable state but what's there is there.
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Kind of seems at this point like people are whipping a dead horse on this subject. As long as EU4 is in the top 50 steam games played and DLC sales are good PDS is not going to care much about the same repeating rants ad nauseum. Yeah the communication sucked over the summer (nothing new there), the patch didn't live up to the hype, and is still broken to some degree. They have a hot fix in beta that fixes some issues and eventually hopefully PDS will fix the other introduced issues. Or not, given the track record.
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So we should ignore terrible business practices because they keep employing the same terrible business practices?
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The EU IV team doesnt have the power of hindsight that all of us armchair developers have. Thats how that happens.
Someone thought this project would take x month. And then it took more month and other plans (new studio, vacation, not dying to the plague) started to interfere with production. Which slowed it down further.
And while "just delay it until its ready!" sounds like a sensible thing to say, Johan has posted multiple time, why that is just not a thing when you are not steam or Blizzard or GoG (guys with their own platform).
Or in other words: if you want to play paradox games bug "free", just dont buy them when they have to release them. Buy them, when you think they are ready.
Someone thought this project would take x month. And then it took more month and other plans (new studio, vacation, not dying to the plague) started to interfere with production. Which slowed it down further.
And while "just delay it until its ready!" sounds like a sensible thing to say, Johan has posted multiple time, why that is just not a thing when you are not steam or Blizzard or GoG (guys with their own platform).
Or in other words: if you want to play paradox games bug "free", just dont buy them when they have to release them. Buy them, when you think they are ready.
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