He admitted that some of the later expansions like Horse Lords were not as successful, trying to model societies that didn't really think about land ownership the way we do today within a design space meant to support warring feudal lords. Crusader Kings 3, secretly, had been in some stage of planning since 2014 and in active development since 2016. We want players to tell stories within our games."Īnd as it turned out, Crusader Kings 2's game director Henrik Fåhraeus agreed with me.
This seemed to run counter to what Paradox's Chief Business Development Officer Shams Jorjani told me about the company's philosophy: "We don't want to tell stories. I lamented at the time in a personal blog post that my favorite game had "lost track of what made it special," with marketing efforts focusing too much on pre-scripted content instead of on the systems and possibilities for emergent storytelling. 2018's Holy Fury marked the beginning of the end for Crusader Kings 2, and fans didn't even know it yet. The problem I was starting to notice even as far back as 2015's Horse Lords expansion (which sought to add nomadic steppe empires), though, was that Crusader Kings 2 seemed to be painted into a corner by its own core systems. Paradox's EVP Creative Director Johan Andersson loves to chat about World of Warcraft any time we sit down-a game that is still getting expansions 15 years after release. In fan communities, the question arose: if we keep buying DLC, will they just keep it going forever? Core roleplaying features were deepened with excellent additions like 2014's Way of Life and 2016's Conclave. Then-CEO and current Chairman of the Board Fredrik Wester admitted he "would have laughed" if asked what the game would look like in 2019, but as the expansions kept rolling, people kept buying them. Appropriately enough, given its setting, there have been questions and speculation for years about when crowns-and-castles strategy RPG Crusader Kings 2, which has received seven years of expansions and patches totalling hundreds of dollars of optional add-ons, would finally fade into the annals of history.Īs we discussed in our chat about the history of Crusader Kings 2, the idea of supporting a game so long after release was unprecedented in the grand strategy genre and something of a great experiment for Paradox.
They didn't have a lot of hard data to confirm this like we do, but it seemed to be a pervasive mood nonetheless. Among other things, they always seemed to be convinced the world was ending. Medieval people resembled many of us alive today in some interesting ways.
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