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Whatever happens in the future, this game became amazing due to Arheo and his team.
Without them, it won't be the same.

Also, it obviously would take at least a year for a new team to become familiar with the game, develop a concept for new content, create it, test it and release it. 2 years is probably more realistic. By then, this game will be forgotten and its former fanbase gone with a sour mood.
No one will risk all this effort for a game that has severely limited economic potential. I mean, if continuous ongoing development failed to restore a large fanbase despite being a masterpiece like 2.0, how should a new team ever succeed???
 
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I mean, yes?

You do realise that CK3 is the only PDS game that isn't years old at this point?

Yes, that's exactly what it is. There's zero correlation between having a competent dev, marketing and managing teams in charge of a game AND the game being carachter driven, that's clearly just coincidence.

There's no evidence for what you're claiming at all, neither is the movement of devs from IR to CKIII proof of anything.

Well naturally I disagree but I think it's pointless to move this conversation any further.
IR no matter what people talk or not, is dead. One less Spirit of the nation game is being developed while the character driven one is having a second successful release. This is the fact and I have no joy in IR being dead.
 
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The problem is that... this is only true for the graeco roman world and not the rest of it, from india to gaul to spain, etc. All these places need the same love to really shine.
yeah, that is true. but, the core mechanics are solid and if the modding community still has passion and/or care for the game, then there is a bright future ahead.. sort of :((
 
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Of course it is, it is a PR death announced in stages.
Hey, it’s not just you who were upset by this announcement. But if you go to see the other members they are reacting better than you. And that was what I liked most about this part / community of the forum called Imperator: Rome: they were the most courteous members with the other members and with the devs, and together with them, they took this game to a level well above that of the time launch. And seeing from the quantity and quality of everyone's reaction
on this thread, unfortunately, paradox's decision makes it even sadder.
 
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The worst thing about this news isn't even the hiatus, it's that even if we do see more content developed, it will likely be by a different dev team. While I have faith that they will be quality, if the time comes, the team directed by @Arheo has stunned me time and time again by consistently meeting and exceeding my expectations. With very few exceptions *cough rulers and legions cough* they have been so on point with their decisions, so focused with the interplay of their mechanics and so true to a final vision that just became clearer and clearer with each iteration of the game that it just kept blowing me away.

Though I hoped for more - especially in diplomacy and trade - I am still of the opinion that this is the best title in the current Paradox lineup. Whatever the future holds, the past was glorious.
 
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Hey, it’s not just you who were upset by this announcement. But if you go to see the other members they are reacting better than you. And that was what I liked most about this part / community of the forum called Imperator: Rome: they were the most courteous members with the other members and with the devs, and together with them, they took this game to a level well above that of the time launch. And seeing from the quantity and quality of everyone's reaction
on this thread, unfortunately, paradox's decision makes it even sadder.

I agree, it makes this sad day a little bit brighter to see that the Imperator community as a whole can accept this disappointing news without cursing and blame the devs.

I suppose at the end of the day we all knew this time would come sooner or later.
 
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I agree, it makes this sad day a little bit brighter to see that the Imperator community as a whole can accept this disappointing news without cursing and blame the devs.

I suppose at the end of the day we all knew this time would come sooner or later.
Too soon.
 
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Whatever happens in the future, this game became amazing due to Arheo and his team.
Without them, it won't be the same.

Also, it obviously would take at least a year for a new team to become familiar with the game, develop a concept for new content, create it, test it and release it. 2 years is probably more realistic. By then, this game will be forgotten and its former fanbase gone with a sour mood.
No one will risk all this effort for a game that has severely limited economic potential. I mean, if continuous ongoing development failed to restore a large fanbase despite being a masterpiece like 2.0, how should a new team ever succeed???
Like wine. You will not taste a Bourgogne when is bottled for first time, it needs years to grow in the bottle. Just ask how much are paying for them.

If I:R is really a hidden jewel, then player numbers will come with time.

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I cannot express how disappointed I am to hear this news. Imperator is my favourite pdx title, even though it doesn't have the content of competetors like EU4. It has the basis to be well loved by all. It just needs more content. I hope that it is still getting that in the future.
So the question, is no one working on Imperator now? What about Thalassic?
 
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I agree, it makes this sad day a little bit brighter to see that the Imperator community as a whole can accept this disappointing news without cursing and blame the devs.

I suppose at the end of the day we all knew this time would come sooner or later.
We're well drilled for this through civil responses to all the doomthreading and the self-deprecating humour about player numbers we've had here. I mean, just look at the Bass Scale. That kind of thing is why I love this forum and have probably posted more here than on any other PDX forum combined, despite having played since EU3.
 
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Why not stop development of other games like EU4, which seems to be 200 years old, instead of Imperator? And move the EU4 progammers and developers into Imperator?
 
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Very disapointed here. I finally decided to buy the game after all the great reviews on the last update.
I greatly enjoy it as I have started playing. I was fully expecting an upcomming DLC focusing on fleshing out the neglected western nations such as the Gauls, Iberians, Britons or Germans. This is a big let down just when this was starting to roll.
 
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Why not stop development of other games like EU4, which seems to be 200 years old, instead of Imperator? And move the EU4 progammers and developers into Imperator?
because, despite eu4s badly aged mana mechanics (mechanics which ppl despised IR for originally), it has a huge playerbase willing to throw money at
 
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Why not stop development of other games like EU4, which seems to be 200 years old, instead of Imperator? And move the EU4 progammers and developers into Imperator?
They gave EU4 to an entirely new studio for a similar reason. Which, uh, well ended with what we see now. Iunno about EU4, but Pdox has always.... uh.... been rough on their not PDS studios if you've noticed the high attrition rate of companies that come to dev for them and the often end quality of the games.
 
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I.Cannot.Believe.
 
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