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What if scenario. If Stellaris turns out to be awful how will you go on with your life? What's the next thing you'll look forward to? Is your life basically ruined if Stellaris is sucky?
 
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Why even worry about this possibility now? Any game can flop, but there's no obvious reason why Stellaris would - it's looking way more promising than the new MoO.
 
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I shall whine on these very forums for about a month then I can console myself with Hearts of Iron IV. If that flops aswell, I shall whine until either of the games are fixed or they make Victoria III. Or a really good expansion for eu4.
 
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What if scenario. If Stellaris turns out to be awful how will you go on with your life? What's the next thing you'll look forward to? Is your life basically ruined if Stellaris is sucky?
From what we have seen I do not see this happening :) The worst that can happen right now are bugs and those pesky buggers will be dealt with.

If not there is always Star Ruler
 
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Well,

A/ A game can be BOTH awful AND succeed (Destiny). The reverse is also true : a great game can flop.

B/ Stellaris is really looking good and I don't see it getting less than 85% on metacritic. The only issues might be the UI and the optimization for a short time after the game comes out.

C/ If the game is good, considering it was only made by a core team of 12, it would have to do worse than all PDX's releases to "bomb". On the contrary, being a quality "space game" + multiplayer friendly (with the possibility of creating a race of nazi-slugs) might hopefully make it into a sleeper hit. Time will tell, but a good indicator will be the Let's Play's and community online on steam. Just look at games like EU IV : 3 years after, dozens of people still play it online and post the videos on Youtube. GalCiv 3 on the other hand has virtually no one playing it, or at least through Steam & posting vids on youtube.
 
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Don't know, don't care. I know I'm gonna be playing.

With Paradox games they are pretty niche, even if Stellaris is going to be the easiest to get into. It's not Starcraft, it's not Call of Duty but it is its own thing. Also, EU III according to steamcharts peaked at 1300 people, EU4 at about 25k and CK2 at almost 12k. These are not that big numbers when every random Steam sandbox crap comes close to them, but doesn't seem to stop Paradox :p

The games also are probably much cheaper to make, seeing they're not that heavy on AAA graphics, so they need to sell less to make a profit, too.
 
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Help PDS un-flop Stellaris... keep my signature... as I don't see any other emerging 4X title holding my interest... and enjoy the release of HOI4 even more!

However, I'm confident that this "what if scenario" could only happen in an evil parallel universe.
 
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What if the sun goes out tomorrow?

I try not to worry about unlikely scenarios...I just worry about the likely ones. Speaking of which, need to go find my cat.
 
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