Timespan between game announcement and release?

[Cagallo]

For those long enough around... how much time passed between, for example, Imperator Rome announced and released? And EU4? Or even CK2 itself?

It does not necessarily need to be a good benchmark comparison, but...

 

[Silversweeeper]

Stellaris took about 8 months from the first dev diary to release. CK2 took about 16 months. EU4 took a bit over 11 months. I:R took a bit less than 11 months.

It is hard to say if any of these are comparable to what we can expect for CK3 as various things (e.g. the current Covid-19 pandemic) could cause delays, and at least some of the earlier games had... rocky releases that perhaps could have been less rocky if they had been delayed a bit.

 

[Denkt]

They have said it is set to be released in 2020, which mean at most it can be only like 14 months from annoucement to release which fit the annoucement to release window of the past games quite well.

 

[prismaticmarcus]

announcements tend to be about 12 months out

 

[Krajzen]

It should be faraway enough for them to do few dozens of dev diaries, I'd say between 35 and 50 DDs would be an ordinary amount. But look how specific they are - it took 7 DDs just for them to cover lifestyles!!! And beyond mechanics we want to see obligatory "look how the map of this part of the world looks like" DDs and "this major religious denomination" DDs...

Stellaris took about 8 months from the first dev diary to release. CK2 took about 16 months. EU4 took a bit over 11 months. I:R took a bit less than 11 months.

I like how you didn't include HoI4, we don't talk about development process of HoI4

They have said it is set to be released in 2020, which mean at most it can be only like 14 months from annoucement to release which fit the annoucement to release window of the past games quite well.

They have also said somewhere that "2021 is possible too" or something like that.


Personally I am like 90% sure we'll get this game by 2021 given this, other factors, and for example mess caused by the Pandemic

 

[Denkt]

They could release the game 2030 if they want to, I don't care about when it is released.

 

[Silversweeeper]

I like how you didn't include HoI4, we don't talk about development process of HoI4

I skipped it because I've not played it.

 

[Denkt]

I skipped it because I've not played it.

Don't mean you should skip it.

 

[Tschobo]

At the beginning of the announcement in 2019 I assumed September or early October 2020. But now with so many launches in this window I would even assume that they will wait for the Christmas release window or even February-March 2021.

 

[Silversweeeper]

Don't mean you should skip it.

... in a post I'm making when I'm in a hurry and don't have the relevant information about HoI4 readily available due to not having had a reason to check the dev diary pages for that game due to not having played it (due to not being terribly interested in a WWII game in the first place)? I disagree.

 

[petty king of my room]

At the beginning of 2019 I assumed September or early October 2020. But now with so many launches in this window I would even assume that they will wait for the Christmas release window or even February-March 2021.

Also, that whole “shut the Gate” event can seriously mess up your production cycle.

 

[Denkt]

... in a post I'm making when I'm in a hurry and don't have the relevant information about HoI4 readily available due to not having had a reason to check the dev diary pages for that game due to not having played it (due to not being terribly interested in a WWII game in the first place)? I disagree.

I'm not really interested in any of the games here but what the OP wanted to have a good idea how long it can take for the game to be released and HOI4 had one of the longest annoucement to release of any paradox game. It is not that hard to find out how long HOI4 took from annoucement to release and if you have time to write that stuff you probably had time to check up how long it took for HOI4 to be released.

Anyway, all recent paradox games:

• Victoria 2: annouced 6 Aug 2009, released 13 Aug 2010, ca 12 months between annoucement to release
  
• CK2: annouced 19 Aug 2010, released 14 Feb 2012, ca 18 months between annoucement to release
• EUIV: annouced 9 Aug 2012, released 13 Aug 2013, ca 12 months between annoucement to release
• HOI4: annouced 14 Jan 2014, released 6 Jun 2016 , ca 30 months between annoucement to release
• Stellaris: annouced 6 Aug 2015, released 9 May 2012, ca 9 months between annoucement to release
• Imperator: Rome: annouced 19 May 2018, released 25 April 2019 , ca 11 months between annoucement to release

As can be seen it can vary alot from as few as 9 month to as much as 30 months.

 

[Cagallo]

Also, that whole “shut the Gate” event can seriously mess up your production cycle.

It is a "shut the gate" event indeed

As can be seen it can vary alot from as few as 9 month to as much as 30 months.

I had in my mind --I don't know why-- that announcing the game meant the release was kind of imminent. Completely wrong! I'll go back to CK2 then.

 

[Denkt]

I had in my mind --I don't know why-- that announcing the game meant the release was kind of imminent. Completely wrong! I'll go back to CK2 then.

It have been like 6 months since announcement.

 

[prismaticmarcus]

It is a "shut the gate" event indeed


I had in my mind --I don't know why-- that announcing the game meant the release was kind of imminent. Completely wrong! I'll go back to CK2 then.

Cities: Skylines do that, but that's colossal order, not PDS

 

[Axis89]

... in a post I'm making when I'm in a hurry and don't have the relevant information about HoI4 readily available due to not having had a reason to check the dev diary pages for that game due to not having played it (due to not being terribly interested in a WWII game in the first place)? I disagree.

Dont feed the troll

 

[stantz]

We should expect delays on anything set to release this year, unless it's coming out immediately, like the FFVII remake this week. Trying to manage an entire development team working from home will certainly cause delays, and once the first wave of the virus passes it will take some time for the economy to recover to the point that people are buying video games again instead of agonizing over rent and necessities.

 

[pesco77]

Also, that whole “shut the Gate” event can seriously mess up your production cycle.

Don't worry, Paradox, you're doing the right thing! You won't get a malus for abandoning us commoners!