Double Eleven, developers of the Prison Architect series for nine years, are parting ways with Paradox just months before the sequel is due for release.
  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    6 months ago

    Further info here about the move.

    Since Paradox Interactive went public in 2016, it was never the same; at this rate comparing it with EA is fair game. As such I'm not surprised that devs are getting

    I never heard about this Kokku studio, even paying taxes to the same government as its folks do. I don't have reasons to think that it's a good studio or a bad studio, but the fact that PI is throwing the game into the hands of a "who?" studio spells problems.

  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Paradox is becoming the new EA, they weren't great before but they're becoming absolutely awful now. Whenever I see "Paradox Interactive" associated with a game I get second thoughts about it.

  • JelloBrains@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    I was already wary of the change from 2D to 3D, then they had a couple of delays and now the main dev is bouncing just before the supposed release, it all looks really bad. This seems to be a wait a year or two and see if Paradox sorts it out kind of title.

  • reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Do they even need to bother with a publisher? I feel like they could just finish the game on their own time, throw it up on steam and get plenty of sales that way. Most people interested in this probably played the first one already anyhow, so marketing may not be that crucial.