Wiz is stepping down as Game Director of Stellaris

[Dsingis]

He just announced it on stream. Wiz will step down as Game Director of Stellaris, and move to a secret, unannounced project.
He will hand over the game to Daniel Moregard, former Game Designer of Stellaris.

On one side I'm hyped that Wiz, (the best game director of Paradox in my humble opinion) is working on a new project.
On the other side I'm careful, because I don't know what to expect from Daniel.

We all know what happened to EU4 when Wiz stepped down, but I'm carefully optimistic, since Daniel seems to have a similar vision for Stellaris as Wiz.

He posted about it on twitter as well. The forum rules don't allow linking anything outside the forum if I recall correctly, so you just have to go there yourself^^

 

[Gen. Skobelev]

Victoria 3 confirmed!

 

[Serenity84]

Daniel and Wiz seem to be pretty similar in what they want from Stellaris. And he's worked on the game for some time

 

[Hapchazzard]

Though I had always known that this day would come, I at least hoped it would happen after the mythical diplomacy update. I can only hope that Wiz's successor will be as passionate and creative with the game as Wiz was . Best of luck to them.

 

[CheesySnake]

I might be wrong, but I think linking to Wiz's Twitter post is ok (at least I've seen it done for Twitter teasers both here and in the hoi4 forum).

 

[ciurra]

I am super sad! @Wiz I will miss your contribution to this great game! I hope the best for you

 

[stavern]

I thought something was going on since not seen Wiz write any of the Diaries for last two months.

 

[Zavaleta]

I had hoped he would stay on until after the Diplomacy overhaul, but LeGuin lays the ground work for Stellaris for years to come. Grateful for what he did with Stellaris.

 

[ashbery76]

He did a great job with brave choices and made Stellaris a much better game for the future.Yeah the last DLC needs a lot of work but that it just fixing bugs.The design is massive improvement.

I hope this doesn't stop the diplomacy vision he had.Galactic UN's,etc.

 

[steve.bd]

Speaker voice

"Attention please. Victoria 3 hype train is leaving from platform 9, Victoria 3 hype train is leaving from platform 9"

 

[PedroLuiz]

Speaker voice

"Attention please. Victoria 3 hype train is leaving from platform 9, Victoria 3 hype train is leaving from platform 9"

WAIT FOR MEE!! FINALLY!!!

 

[exi123]

They anounced the diplomacy DLC will come at some point. And that they will slow down the pace for stellaris to have more time for bugfixing. And this is really a good thing...

 

[Skyhunteren]

Sad to see Wiz leave.

Look forward to getting to know Daniel.

AND DOES THIS MEAN VIC3 IS CONFIRMED?

 

[Mcwynne]

Please don't jinx Vicky again or it will never happen D:

 

[Olliganak]

To Wiz: Thank you for not being incompetent, and I hope you bring glory to Victoria 3 (Sidenote: There is no proof that Wiz is working on Victoria 3. However, he is working on Victoria 3, and I refuse to accept any evidence otherwise)

To Daniel: Assuming you are not incompetent, I look forward to your work, and I hope you bring glory to Stellaris.

 

[PedroLuiz]

The King is dead! Long Live the King!

 

[wundte]

Speaker voice

"Attention please. Victoria 3 hype train is leaving from platform 9, Victoria 3 hype train is leaving from platform 9"

sadly i belive that we wont get it.
i think wiz will start doing europa V or some other new game comletely.

 

[monkeypunch87]

I'm not too sad actually. Wiz and the dev team lost some goodwill with the FTL-changes back then. But they managed to create some nice expansions on the base of these changes, so he leaves on equal footing for me.

 

[Matoro_TBS]

We all know what happened to EU4 when Wiz stepped down, but I'm carefully optimistic, since Daniel seems to have a similar vision for Stellaris as Wiz.

So when was Wiz the game director of EUIV? Which expansions are his work?

I'm a little sad, since Stellaris has been so strongly Martin's vision (which is awesome) but it's far too early to say anything about future development. I just hope the diplomacy DLC will have more internal struggles, civil war mechanics etc. Please, stay away from EUIV model where every DLC just stacks more and more bonuses.

 

[PedroLuiz]

So when was Wiz the game director of EUIV? Which expansions are his work?

I'm a little sad, since Stellaris has been so strongly Martin's vision (which is awesome) but it's far too early to say anything about future development. I just hope the diplomacy DLC will have more internal struggles, civil war mechanics etc. Please, stay away from EUIV model where every DLC just stacks more and more bonuses.

More or less every Dlc before he came to Stellaris he was the director