Paradox Interactive profits drop YOY 90% due to Life By You cancellation - Kotaku In Action 2

Paradox Interactive profits drop YOY 90% due to Life By You cancellation (www.gamesindustry.biz)

posted 153 days ago by dagthegnome 153 days ago by dagthegnome +29 / -2

Paradox Interactive profits drop 90% due to Life By You cancellation

Paradox Interactive's profits have significantly dropped by 90% following the cancellation of Life By You. The publishe…

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– LibertyPrimeWasRight 4 points 152 days ago +4 / -0

They keep prior releases available under 'betas' in the properties of the game on steam, and you can roll back to basically any of them. The versions from before EU's GDPR became law don't meet the law's requirement to show you the games privacy policy so they are locked behind a code you can get from paradox where they show you their privacy policy first in order to be compliant. One code per game, and once entered the oldest versions remain available without further effort.

Wow, I was unaware of that. That raises my opinion of them.

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– mharmless 2 points 152 days ago +2 / -0

Stellaris in particular basically turned into an entirely different game with the move from 1.9 to 2.0 when they ditched the three different FTL methods for hyperlanes for all, and again when they moved from 2.1 to 2.2 when they ditched planetary tiles for the jobs-based system still in use today.

It's fun to roll back to some of these prior versions now and then to enjoy those old systems. I actually liked the old starbase influence projection system from pre 2.0. Just wish I'd saved some of the mods.

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