is sengoku kind of beta for CK2?

[Captain Gars]

This gave them enough time to finish CK2 without great financial loses.

The decision to make Sengoku had nothing to do with any sort of "financing of CKII".

 

[Captain Gars]

Sure seems like it. It was a cash grab.

You seem to like that phrase, "cash grab". How exactly was the game a cash grab? Are you saying we made a lot of money on it?

 

[Chaingun]

Welcome to the business of selling games and the power of hindsight.

 

[Captain Gars]

What is true about Sengoku is that it cost me about $40 on release and then was given away for free with a $20 game what, a year later?

It was released almost one and a half years ago and it did not cost $40 but $30. But I'm not sure what your point is.

 

[Captain Gars]

I agree with OP and not everyone else: In my opinion, Sengoku was a beta for some of CK2's features. It was common rumor shortly after Sengoku was released.

Well if it was a rumor than it must be true.

 

[Captain Gars]

Well, with all due respect, debunk the rumor then...show us what Paradox otherwise intended for this game.

Paradox intended to make a historical strategy game set in medieval Japan - which it did. If it had sold better there would probably have been a number of DLCs and expansions - but it didn't.