Paradox Interactive completely cancelled Life by You (update Paradox Tectonic to close)
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Paradox Interactive announced today that Life by You from their studio Paradox Tectonic is now fully cancelled, after previously being delayed.

Very surprising. The game looked like it had a lot of potential and could’ve been the most popular sims alternative, but it’s suddenly been cancelled.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    93·
    5 months ago

    Realistically, at least for Stellaris, Paradox updates the game for free for everyone that breaks everyone’s in-progress games and breaks key features of the game by fundamentally changing how the mechanics work. Then they sell the DLC that is absolutely necessary to fix whatever they broke for people who don’t own the DLC.

    Paradox creates the problem and then sells the solution.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      I haven’t played that one, so that’s news to me, as I didn’t experience that in Cities: Skylines or Surviving Mars.

      • lath@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Ck3 with the plague mechanics does this. The base game has some default settings that absolutely wrecks everything once plagues get going and only having the DLC can change those settings.

    • KombatWombat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      I only played Stellaris off and on, but I went years without buying an expansion and always thought the new systems were complete and better than what they replaced when I returned. Breaking current saves is frustrating, so I guess you would need to delay an update if you had one you planned on returning to.

      If you didn’t know, you can roll back to older versions of steam games with some work. A few games have a built-in system, but most of the tile you have to manually replace files after redownloading the old versions.