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TinyWiking said:
I've got no info to share and just to make it clear I'm not part of the EoS team, I'm the support manager, which means I'm not always in the loop of what's going on. I mentioned in January that Fred had confirmed we have a new developer working on the second DLC but I've not heard anything since then and I don't know when there will be information to share.
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Now that you mentioned it, I am getting curious. I don't even pretend to know how the corporate structure of Paradox works., but is it so isolated that you cannot send simple email or message to whom ever working on Empire of Sin and check if the project is going forward or not? Each department may not be able to share complete project progress, but they can at least say if they are working on it or not? The company I work for does not have such a high barrier in department communication, but does it work differently with Paradox?
 
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TinyWiking said:
I've got no info to share and just to make it clear I'm not part of the EoS team, I'm the support manager, which means I'm not always in the loop of what's going on. I mentioned in January that Fred had confirmed we have a new developer working on the second DLC but I've not heard anything since then and I don't know when there will be information to share.
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No offense to you for trying, but honestly at this point, why is there no one who is willing to speak to this on a leadership level from the actual team of paradox developers? Why is Fred not delivering this confirmation to us? They are still selling the season pass on steam, and yet have said nothing officially, OFFICIALLY, for over THREE years! I know that the original developers they were working with jumped ship, but if Paradox could just put a mea culpa out like Cities Skylines did, like Sega did with Total war: Pharaoh, like other dev companies have done with projects that have not met expectations, instead of the endless silence, then maybe trust could be established. At this point, however, there is NO trust here. Sad to say.
 
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To be fair, this thread is the most read on the front page with 19k views, followed by the DLC 2 thread with 8K views.
 
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makslaskabata2 said:
Seeing as you, @TinyWiking also have forum permissions, might you pin or somehow promote this post so it sticks out as soon as you go on here? Not that is necessarily needed (this post already has thousands of views), but it would help bring a greater light to this.
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Oops, my above post was in reply to this. I didn’t see we’d moved on a page.
 
kamikazerockets said:
Now that you mentioned it, I am getting curious. I don't even pretend to know how the corporate structure of Paradox works., but is it so isolated that you cannot send simple email or message to whom ever working on Empire of Sin and check if the project is going forward or not? Each department may not be able to share complete project progress, but they can at least say if they are working on it or not? The company I work for does not have such a high barrier in department communication, but does it work differently with Paradox?
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They probably can send internal emails and receive internal information. It is what can be published here that will be more tightly controlled.
 
Four and a half years and counting.
And they are still selling Expansion 2 on Steam for $14.99 ($5 more than they are selling the base game, which actually exists, for right now).

It would be hard to make this nonsense up. There is zero chance anyone at Paradox is even thinking about this game anymore, much less the customers that bought content they are never going to give us.
 
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It still boggles my mind that PDX appears to be so incompetent that they're letting a small dev (yeah, I know it's Romero, still) walk all over them and make them look like they're either asleep at the wheel or scammers. Feels like that theme has been running through a lot of PDX's products lately tbh.
 
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Paradox only cares about it's three flagship series, and gives a i-don't-give-a-fuck attitude to every other game of theirs (because they mostly find success from sticking the existing IP on the same formula for their three most successful games)
 
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I hope we get some more info soon. This game could have been so good if they worked on it a little more. I will buy any new DLC once it comes out. The game just needs some more content such as new maps to fight on. Kind of like how Civilization as new nations, the more nations the more replay value.
 
I thought that I had posted this, but apparently not.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1805170362361032813

So, it looks like the DLC is in development.

To me, it looks like Fredrik does not know or/and is not very interested in what people think and feel about this whole thing. It's not that he does not have anything else to do, and I can imagine that he does not have good memories of this game either.

I'm interested if we will learn anything about that dlc or if they will just throw it in with. Like, they could introduce that new studio or something.
 
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Kinda weird that they are developing something that is supposedly released this year but no one at the company knows anything or can apparently say anything about it. The confirmation that people would get a refund if they decide to cancel is certainly interesting though.

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I mean, this was predictable. I already made the assumption a year ago that they would infinitely delay the development by adding more "late this year or next year"'s to keep the complainers in check. Frankly, they will never release this DLC, and once they get a question they will just respond with the usual. They have never explicitly mentioned it is their or Romero's responsibility to release this DLC.
 
Let’s think it this way. This DLC is in development for about 5 years now, probably longer than the base game itself. It’s also priced higher than the base game too. This gotta be one hell of a DLC coming on our way. Our expectation for the DLC content gets higher every minutes we wait.
 
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kamikazerockets said:
Let’s think it this way. This DLC is in development for about 5 years now, probably longer than the base game itself. It’s also priced higher than the base game too. This gotta be one hell of a DLC coming on our way. Our expectation for the DLC content gets higher every minutes we wait.
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I can`t wait lol
 
Seems obvious that, after the CEO of Paradox has admitted openly this past week that Paradox has been making very bad decisions with game development (particularly those third-party games they produced,) and needs to get back to what they are good at, this game is toast, no matter what one person who claims they have insider info on the development has to say. Hopefully they will just admit failure here, offer refunds for those who did the pass, and end this charade.
 
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