TheVoidDragon
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Paradox Interactive's games are currently being flooded with poor steam reviews as a result of sudden price increases for their games and DLC in multiple regions, with the reason being given as:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/price-increase.1022680/#post-22833834
Their games have suddenly got a large amount of bad reviews on Steam because of this. From reddit:
This just seems absurd to me. Their reason basically seems to be "You seem to have more money than last time we checked, so you can give us more from now on". They say this is something other publishers do but i can't recall any prices increases of old games like this before. Paradox seem to have fairly bad buisness practices overall, they released unfinished games that need 'fixing' with overpriced DLC, with patches that seem more temporary fixes that they then need to go back over later on to do properly, and now they're increasing their prices suddenly.
It's right before the Steam summer sale as well.
Hey gang,
As you have noticed prices for our products have increased in certain regions around the globe and this is something we've intentionally done. The reason for this is to make our prices match the purchasing power of those areas, as well as create a more equal price point for our products across the globe.
Our prices have remained pretty much the same for several years and it's only natural for us to re-evaluate price points at regular intervals based on the strength of various currencies, fluctuations in world markets and many other factors. This is something that all publishers do and we are no exception.
Sadly this means that the price has gone up for certain regions and whilst this is something we'd like to avoid, it's necessary to keep our price point more in line with our other markets. We sincerely apologize for any frustration this may cause and hope you can understand why we are doing this.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/price-increase.1022680/#post-22833834
Their games have suddenly got a large amount of bad reviews on Steam because of this. From reddit:
EU4 down to Mostly Negative with 29% positive
CK2 down to Mixed with 40% positive
HoI4 down to Mixed with 58% positive
Victoria 2 down to Mixed with 48% positive
Stellaris down to Mixed with 63% positive
This just seems absurd to me. Their reason basically seems to be "You seem to have more money than last time we checked, so you can give us more from now on". They say this is something other publishers do but i can't recall any prices increases of old games like this before. Paradox seem to have fairly bad buisness practices overall, they released unfinished games that need 'fixing' with overpriced DLC, with patches that seem more temporary fixes that they then need to go back over later on to do properly, and now they're increasing their prices suddenly.
It's right before the Steam summer sale as well.