I'd find it to be shocking if they didn't have anything to show us by PDXCON. If they have nothing by PDX, I suspect their will be serious questions about productivity from both the fans and corporate. My hope is that they have something to show/tease to us this month. We'll see what they have (if anything) tomorrow.
I mean, or so i hope, they are probably working already on the next expansion/pack/whatever.
If we were given at least some information on what that is we could already be making suggestions of our own to maybe give the devs some further ideas and have something to talk about. Afterall and despite some bad behaviour here and there, community involvement was and still is something that paradox has been doing in the past and present far more than many other developers.
But we still have literally no idea what it is going to be. Whether something about Italy, Scandinavia, Air, South America, Diplomacy or a Tannu Tuva focus tree. And this means either, unless the team already has something in store for us to share in the near future and i am just a prophet of doom, that they have delved very deep into development already and there is little room to change something (which sometimes leads to disappointement and y'alled threads) or they simply have not gotten that much to show which in turn means that we will have
to wait even longer for the release of the next expansion, and by extension the delaying of all future expansion. And we know that for Scandinavia, Italy, and others at least 2 or 3 expansions
are needed. I frankly don't know which is worse.
Finally, to make myself clear as always, i really do believe and can read it from both the engagement here in the forums and the general feel from videos/diaries that the people currently and previously working on HoI are passionate and hard-working. And despite the nay-sayers and people who claim that this game is """uNpLaYaBLe""" countless of us have spent thousands of hours (and hundreds of moneys on dlc's lmao) on the game which is a statement of it's own.
Yet the team either needs bring their workflow in order, which i wont judge because i am not there, or they really do need more hands on deck as is befitting for such a large game and playerbase, which i again can't judge.
However it may be though, what i can tell is that i have the distinct impression when comparing it with other pdx titles, that other pdx games have a feeling as if they are constantly being worked on. I know this may sound wrong because probably at this very day HoI has been worked on, yet every expansion feels like the sneeze that never wants to come out and you really have to focus and force it, so that one day,
maaaayyybeeeee... the sneeze will eventually come out. And when it does come out it is glorious of course, but in the meantime it sucks.
