Paradox CEO admits company made "wrong calls in several projects" in wake of Life By You's cancellation (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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[-] TheAlbatross 18 points 5 months ago

Baffling that they canceled the project when the target audience for such a game is so hungry for something other than an EA product.

I woulda thought that Paradox would have the right stuff to do a Sims-esque game considering their experience with character driven emergent storytelling in Crusader Kings.

[-] Blu@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months ago

I have to imagine the game was a disaster for them to abandon it like they did. Given what Cities Skylines 2 was like at release, their standards must be in the basement.

[-] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

Right,

It seems like they realized with Cities Skylines 2 that their QA and overall output quality had to be higher and Life By You's state must have been in such a position that they weren't confident they could turn it around.

Ultimately, they need to do some good-will gesture around CS2 in order to gain the trust of the sim audience again and I don't think it should be that difficult for them to course correct that game (though how they market it and get it in people's hands is another question...)

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

When are they going to do something good with the White Wolf IP they bought?

[-] shani66@ani.social 3 points 5 months ago

They are too busy trying to kill it, as far as i can tell.

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

something something shareholders something quarterly profit something

That's probably the real reason they cut back on a lot of stuff.

Shareholders need to hodl longer instead of trying to hit those quarterlies.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

I think they made the right choice with that one, it looked horrible. Lifeless, no personality whatsoever... It was for the best.

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Are there good videos or articles to demonstrate what you mean? I hadn't even had heard of it, and now it's canceled lol.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

The game's youtube channel has a lot of gameplay videos. If you want my opinion it looked like an uglier, jankier, poor man's Sims 3 with none of the charm or humor from that series and I don't think it would ever had much of a real chance against Sims, not without a few more years in development at the very least because even the gameplay videos from a couple months ago still have that "alpha" look to it.

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