Hello there, my name is Erik Jakobsson, but most of you know me as “Katten” and ” I’ve had the pleasure of being your Community Manager for these past few years.
As you can see in the title of this post and the video embedded below, I will be leaving Hearts of Iron and moving on, alongside my colleague Alex Dunk, or as you know him, “Midgeman,” who has been one of your Community Ambassadors for more than four years.
Before I hand things over to the new Community Manager, I want to take a moment to reflect on all the fun things we’ve done over the years. It’s been incredible to be a part of creating the War Effort updates, building the Frontlines multiplayer support event structure, starting our very own YouTube channel, and to have had the chance to talk to all of you every day across our community platforms. It’s wild to think this journey started with me hosting Friday night multiplayer games on my Discord, Hearts of Iron IV Community. From there, I went on to work as a freelance Community Ambassador for Paradox, eventually stepping into the role of Community Manager and helping to reshape how we work together with the player base. It has truly been an amazing experience.
To all the modders I’ve had the chance to collaborate with on Day 1 updates and beyond, to the YouTubers and streamers I’ve worked with on videos and projects, and of course, to all the players I’ve talked to and worked with—thank you for making this community truly special! <3
Now, to answer the big question: where am I going? I’ve recently taken over the Europa Universalis brand and will be dedicating my full attention to it as we move into 2025. And yes, I’m “kidnapping” Alex “Midgeman” too! So, wish us luck!
I guess that's my queue to chip in here - Hello! I'm Alex / Midgeman and like Erik said, I too am sadly being redeployed to the Europa Universalis team. I had the pleasure of interviewing and then joining the Hearts of Iron community over four years ago now, in the height of the pandemic. Like many, the pandemic was a massively diverging time for me and joining the HOI team was the start of a pathway I never thought I'd be heading down. Over the years i've been blessed with opportunity after opportunity to represent Paradox and HOI in so many events and situations, from conventions to lans to livestreams - its been one hell of a ride! I doubt this will be the last time I do *something* HOI related, the community is a wild and wonderful place but for now, thank you all so much for joining me during this journey; I'll never forget this awesome portion of my life - Besides, I'll see you over on Europa!
Before I go, I leave you in the capable hands of my new colleague and your new Community Manager, @PDX_Per .
And that looks like my queue to say hi. Well, some of you will have seen me (my posts or comments) around. Although I do enjoy the shadows, I'll pop up every once in a while.
Going to miss Erik and Alex, but we have a great team so we will...soldier on... so to speak.
As you can see in the title of this post and the video embedded below, I will be leaving Hearts of Iron and moving on, alongside my colleague Alex Dunk, or as you know him, “Midgeman,” who has been one of your Community Ambassadors for more than four years.
Before I hand things over to the new Community Manager, I want to take a moment to reflect on all the fun things we’ve done over the years. It’s been incredible to be a part of creating the War Effort updates, building the Frontlines multiplayer support event structure, starting our very own YouTube channel, and to have had the chance to talk to all of you every day across our community platforms. It’s wild to think this journey started with me hosting Friday night multiplayer games on my Discord, Hearts of Iron IV Community. From there, I went on to work as a freelance Community Ambassador for Paradox, eventually stepping into the role of Community Manager and helping to reshape how we work together with the player base. It has truly been an amazing experience.
To all the modders I’ve had the chance to collaborate with on Day 1 updates and beyond, to the YouTubers and streamers I’ve worked with on videos and projects, and of course, to all the players I’ve talked to and worked with—thank you for making this community truly special! <3
Now, to answer the big question: where am I going? I’ve recently taken over the Europa Universalis brand and will be dedicating my full attention to it as we move into 2025. And yes, I’m “kidnapping” Alex “Midgeman” too! So, wish us luck!
I guess that's my queue to chip in here - Hello! I'm Alex / Midgeman and like Erik said, I too am sadly being redeployed to the Europa Universalis team. I had the pleasure of interviewing and then joining the Hearts of Iron community over four years ago now, in the height of the pandemic. Like many, the pandemic was a massively diverging time for me and joining the HOI team was the start of a pathway I never thought I'd be heading down. Over the years i've been blessed with opportunity after opportunity to represent Paradox and HOI in so many events and situations, from conventions to lans to livestreams - its been one hell of a ride! I doubt this will be the last time I do *something* HOI related, the community is a wild and wonderful place but for now, thank you all so much for joining me during this journey; I'll never forget this awesome portion of my life - Besides, I'll see you over on Europa!
Before I go, I leave you in the capable hands of my new colleague and your new Community Manager, @PDX_Per .
And that looks like my queue to say hi. Well, some of you will have seen me (my posts or comments) around. Although I do enjoy the shadows, I'll pop up every once in a while.
Going to miss Erik and Alex, but we have a great team so we will...soldier on... so to speak.
