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Imagine playing modern paradox games
I used to be a big fan, not so much for their Grand Strategy games (I've played CK2, Victoria for about ~15 hours each and it didn't click), but because they worked with Colossal Order , the creators of Cities in Motion (upon which Cities: Skylines is based).
They really have become a European EA.
It’s ironic considering they were there to replace EA for the city building SimCity series with Cities: Skylines when SimCity 2013 utterly shit the bed.
I believe SimCity 2013 was the last EA game I played. I even pre-ordered two copies (one for myself and one for my brother).
They basically committed fraud by knowingly misrepresenting the nature of their product. The early promo videos pitched a complex non-statistical, agent-based simulation. That was of course de facto discarded and the whole game was a dysfunctional attempt at making a "live service" style multiplayer game in genre that's in many way fundamentally a single player experience.
Paradox feels marginally better than EA these days.
Yep...i fell for ck3. Buying that and for viki 3 because both were really hyped and i never played the predicesor. They dont get me with eu5 nore with all their recent DLCs
Imperator Rome was the first sign if we look back...just dropping something because it didnt make enought profit from the get go