To restate the blimming apparent: sure, Paradox will in the future flip away from Crusader Kings II expansions and make a full sequel to their historic lord administration simulator. The firm’s present strategy to creating technique video games is to develop, rework, and patch ’em for yonks earlier than ultimately leaping to a sequel once they need to make modifications that will contain twiddling with the foundations. CK2 has held out longer than many Paradox sequence–six years and going robust–however CEO Fredrik Wester lately stated (as I’m certain he has a number of instances earlier than?) that sure, in the future the bell will toll for it too. It sounds just like the time is drawing nearer, however nonetheless not right here fairly but.
“We will probably do it at some point, and the reason for that is the technical depth that we have in Crusader Kings 2,” Wester advised our company siblings at GamesIndustry.biz throughout PDXCon in May (and solely posted on Friday).
“We can’t add much more to the game as it is now. It’s crowded. The map is really big, there’s so much content in there. It wasn’t really built for all of the expansions we made. It’s getting heavy. We might need to take the etch-a-sketch, shake it a little bit, and start over.”
It’s a dangerous place. Every time they begin over with a sequel, it’s inevitably lacking a lot that years of expansions and updates had added to the earlier one. It’s the identical drawback EA have with The Sims. Not to say that Paradox technique video games could be a bit wonky at launch – take a look at how Stellaris has taken two years to start out discovering its toes.
Wester didn’t say once they may begin over with CK2, however when it does occur you’ll be able to’t say you’ve been caught off-guard. For now, Paradox are nonetheless increasing away, with Holy Fire coming to CK2 subsequent.
We’re now in Fred’s ultimate few days as CEO of Paradox, after virtually a decade. In August he’ll change into govt chairman of the board, whereas present board member Ebba Ljungerud will take over as CEO.
