Alternate title: Paradox discovers that players aren’t willing to buy a broken game with the promise that it will maybe get fixed within 1-2 years.
It doesn’t help when your scummy studio is infamous for it’s egregious DLC practices, nickel and diming basic game mechanics into a million separate packs. And then you have the gall to release a game as broken as that, after having the excellent prequel as comparison? And it’s still broken, a year after the initial release.
Yeah you bet your ass that customers won’t be accepting of that.
There is no guarantee a broken game will be ever fixed. See KSP 2.
No Problem with buying games that launch broken and get fixes later. I‘ll just get them once they’re fixed.
Yeah. Particularly for a sequel where you have a direct comparison to a prior version, it needs to be polished.
For a new title, this still applies if it is part of a family of games (see Imperator).
Stellaris was broken in many ways on launch but had so much promise that we were willing to go through that journey with Paradox to see what would become.
CK3 was actually playable out of the gate.
