Personally I'm now fully convinced that the "poor communication" from past months as well as this new "total absence of communication" were both motivated by a fear to tell us the truth: they won't fix the game.
A couple bugfixes and optimizations here and there, sure why not. But the real gameplay and performance fixes that we all expect? They can't. Maybe because they don't know how to achieve it, like many people suggested. Or maybe just because it would be too long/expensive. Meaning either they created some monstrous codebase that ended to be too complex for them, or they don't have the means to live up to their initial ambitions. More probably it's a mix of both.
I think they're out of options. Now it's either tell the truth (aka, "the game is already dead because fixing it is too complicated/long/expensive") and face the consequences or just bury their heads in the sand. I think the silence we are witnessing since 3 weeks now speaks for itself.
Anyway... to come back to the point of this thread: it was obviously just a hoax from some bad joker. Nothing very interesting. But the fact that nobody from CO or Paradox came out with an official clarification on this is the ultimate proof that they have given up on us.
They have nothing more to say to us. And the most logical explication to this silence is probably what I just explained above. This game is dead. It will never be what I naively paid for, I will never get my 90€ back, and nobody will never apologize to me for this. Typical dystopic capitalism.
A couple bugfixes and optimizations here and there, sure why not. But the real gameplay and performance fixes that we all expect? They can't. Maybe because they don't know how to achieve it, like many people suggested. Or maybe just because it would be too long/expensive. Meaning either they created some monstrous codebase that ended to be too complex for them, or they don't have the means to live up to their initial ambitions. More probably it's a mix of both.
- At first they tried to hide that truth under the carpet by building as much hype as they could. But we noticed an infinite list of bugs and inconsistencies in the game.
- Then they tried to gaslight us players by pretending that was our own expectations that were too high and that we were toxic. We disagreed with that.
- Then they tried the "we're here, we listen, please talk to us on the forums" way for a bit. Until they refused to publish a roadmap and ran out of things to say in their WOTWs.
- Then they bet on the PDX Mods + DLC release to bring back some enthusiasm. And that failed brilliantly.
- Finally, the silence.
I think they're out of options. Now it's either tell the truth (aka, "the game is already dead because fixing it is too complicated/long/expensive") and face the consequences or just bury their heads in the sand. I think the silence we are witnessing since 3 weeks now speaks for itself.
Anyway... to come back to the point of this thread: it was obviously just a hoax from some bad joker. Nothing very interesting. But the fact that nobody from CO or Paradox came out with an official clarification on this is the ultimate proof that they have given up on us.
They have nothing more to say to us. And the most logical explication to this silence is probably what I just explained above. This game is dead. It will never be what I naively paid for, I will never get my 90€ back, and nobody will never apologize to me for this. Typical dystopic capitalism.
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