Paradox Interactive Arvostelua 

I have recently tried buying Crusader Kings III. It is by all accounts a worth vile product. Unfortunately, they are affiliated with Paradox. A company that have been bought and sold so many times, that it doesn't matter if the product is a space rocket or a three'titted cow. It is all about inflating the value of the company, and no focus on development or support. And of cause it shows. A fine product of their development team is destroyed by their support. Approximently 1 out of four customers are unable to make the game work. But the company don't give a damn. I am one of the 25%, and I WILL REACT. Paradox is forever banned in my purchases. Both for me, and for grand children. The problem is known, but they choose, not to use resources. I can loose 100 bucks. No problem. But when i see on the net, that the problem have been known for 6 month, and not been addressed. Paradox is so on the list. Never again in my generation or the next. WE DO NOT BUY PARADOX even if they have the best product in the future. IT's DONE.

A lot of people rip them for basing their business model around releasing many DLCs, and I have to say that I don’t care too much about that. I actually like that for the benefit. The good part of that is that their games (even ones that aren’t A+ titles right away) will be improved and refined and supported for many years, which is really rare in the industry.
I just get upset when they release lame cash-grab DLC. The franchises I like most are Stellaris and Hearts of Iron, and both franchises added underwhelming DLCs recently, especially HOI which released a country pack with no new game mechanics. A little lame guys.
The other criticism worthy thing is their wokeness. Their company has been infected with political activists a bit. They need to be careful and remember that their core audience is wargaming fanatics and not purple haired activists. Stick to your roots and you’ll be fine. I think they don’t want to stick on that path though, which would be sad for the industry.

Never seen a website like paradox interactive and its stupid XSOLLA security payment checking. I tried 4 times to buy a game on their website using paypal as payment method and each time, XSOLLA cancelled my order, but kept the payment. I have to send 14 emails to Paradox Customs service to have my money back.....after more than 2 months.....result I did not get my game and I have to buy it through Steam.
May be a marketing strategy because Paradox Interactive announced the game with 75% of discount but at the end impossible to buy this game. I even tried by credit card but still impossible to buy the game because XSOLLA blocked the payment.
So I don't recommend this website, just a big waste of time. If I could put 0 star I would do it.

Bei Paradox kann man nicht sein Paßwort zurücksetzen lassen. Sind net mal in der Lage nen Bestätigungslink zu senden. Ich habe von Paradox sowas von die Schnauze voll!!!!!!!

I would never buy a Paradox game again, in fact I won’t. Stellaris was and is the last paradox title I will ever own, they only care to milk their consumers of every penny they can. I can tell you this, don’t buy a paradox game without weighing the cost of every big DLC they have, because you have to have them to play, why? Look up prison architect’s recent dlc for the why. Don’t touch this company, and don’t feed it.

Sviluppatori che creano il 98% dei loro titoli in tutte le lingue del mondo tranne che in italiano. Sono una delle poche software house che hanno questo comportamento... il discorso non è l'ipocrisia di alcuni che rispondono impara l inglese, allora se così fosse i titoli, tutti, dovrebbe uscire solo in inglese e basta, in modo che tutte le altre persone che non sanno l'inglese, e intendo persone che sono anche di stati al di fuori dell'inghilterra e degli stati uniti, dovrebbero imparare l inglese, perché solo noi dobbiamo accontentarci di giocare in inglese??? E arrangiarci??. No!! invece i loro titoli sono in inglese, francese, tedesco, coreano, cinese, spagnolo e russo, ma quasi mai l italiano... per me i loro titoli è come se non esistessero, comportamento spregevole. So bene che per loro l'italiano è difficile perché ha molte molte più regole grammaticali del povero inglese, ma cavolo se tu produci una cosa e la vuoi vendere nel mondo, sei tu che vendi che devi studiare le lingue non io che pago per avere il tuo prodotto, per me sbaglia chi di noi acquista titoli non in italiano, perché diamo adito a questa gente di continuare così, tanto lo comprano lo stesso....avevano promesso anni fa di inserire italiano in élite dangerous (bugia, mai inserito) crusader kings 3 in tutte le lingue del mondo tranne che in italiano...ecc ecc ecc...solo jurassic world grazie paradox, che fatica avrete fatto

i only play eu4 and hoi4, although the hoi4 multiplayer resync is BUSTED, itl have to do. Me and my friend always love playing hoi4, and we reach 1944 in our servers typically :)
and no im not paradox go look at my other reviews

5 Stars for the games
0 Stars for having to spend 200 Bucks for all DLC=the full game

What is it with Paradox and releasing games full of bugs, and not patching them? Take Prison Architect's Psych Ward DLC, with 'Mixed' steam and a lot of reviews also confirming that their DLC breaks the game, including very recent reviews. They're not even here on TrustPilot defending the comments. They seem to like throwing out DLC's like EA does with The Sims to catch at much money as possible. A typical greedy game dev.

And people wonder why I and others will pirate games for free eh?

Probably have 2k plus hours and then some in all of their a lot of their games combined (Eu4,CK2,Hoi4,Stellaris,Vic etc). The price of some of their DLCs(updates really) could buy a better game with more content. Not to mention their are probably hundreds of said DLC's. I have half a brain and decided not to buy their DLC's but after pirating some of their games with all the DLC(out of anger) to see if what would be a $250+ game would be even worth the price, I'm suffice to say that it wouldn't. Probably the worst part is, Paradox could have make good, fun, interesting, strategy games for a fair price. In a different reality. Maybe there is still hope ):

Another grievance: them meddling with city skylines years after it was made and I bought it adding a stupid privacy policy that you need to check to play the game. If you check it they will collect and sell your data to third parties. ugh

(Sorry about the sloppy review it was written in a fit of rage)

I did not have a game closed after purchace but Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings and Hearts of Iron games are dysfunctional Risk-type maps, where nothing has logical interaction yet it is filled with fake features. The games disappoint the strategy fans. Then they release the sequels. This company has never been honest, like say Mojang, Coffee Stain Studios or Tuxedolabs. This review is not about some particular game or taste. All their publicity is a funded campaign filled with buzz and extreme terms "world leader". Their idea is to expand aggressively or die. This is a Neoliberal scam and all of them need to be forced out of office.

I bought a game key from G2A before paradox was a thing, now i suddenly see that i can only get the game if i send a message to paradox support. But then i get this stupid reply back:
“ I'm afraid that if that's the case I won't be able to help you. G2A is not an approved re-seller and often sell keys bought with stolen credit cards, and these cards are then inactivated when it's discovered. You did not do anything wrong, but I'm afraid that you've been tricked and if you want to play Prison Architect again you'll need to purchase an official copy from one of our approved re-sellers:” Useless.

Went down hill in 2016 when they became a public trading company. Now they serve investors and shareholders, not their customers. Lots of unethical, anti-consumer practices. Mostly overcharging for incomplete games, then charging for updates in the form of over priced DLC to not only fix core balance issues, but add it core game play that should have been in the base game. For example, Stellaris is a 4X strategy game, and the vanilla game does not allow you to play a 'tall' empire. This is one of the 2 core ways to play a 4X game. This option was sold back to players in utopia. THen nerfed out, and sold back AGAIN in apocalypse.Do not buy their products. Do not support them. They will cheat you out of your money one way or another.

The System is very broken If you would want something remotely close to this then I would recommend the Total war series from my eyes I've seen.

Want to buy a demo at full game price and later pay 10x as much for the full game? Buy from Paradox.

Crusader Kings und Europa Universalis gehören bislang zu meinen absoluten Lieblingstiteln. Ich finde es zudem bemerkenswert, dass sich Paradox die Mühe macht, seine Spiele mit DLC's zu versorgen und auf Spielerwünsche eingeht. Man merkt ihnen an, dass sie Spaß an ihren eigenen Titeln haben.

Wenn man hier ein Spiel kauft, kann man sich sicher sein, stets neuen Content zu erhalten.

Übrigens: Dass neuer Content (Zeit und Geld) nicht umsonst ist, versteht sich eigentlich von selbst. Hier wird Zeit und Mühe seitens des Teams investiert - wer da nicht bereit ist, das mit max. 9,99€/ DLC zu honorieren, gehört für seine Unverschämtheit weggesperrt.

I tried to buy something while it was on sale, the cart reverted to original price, and the company wouldn't fix the issue.
Avoid doing business with these people, they really are poor in quality when it comes to providing a service, and one can assume that their games are equally poor in quality.

DLC scam, they want your money, actually toxic

1. Publish an Online only Product.
2. Fill buyers with promises.
3. Make its acess limited to ONLY ONE server provider.
4. Almost ONE YEAR LATER, sudenlly cease support and closes all servers.
5. Forbid users to rent or create new local servers making it impossivel to continue using the paid product.
6. Let all buyers with empty hands and an installer that simply does nothing.
7. Remove it from Steam.
8. Goes to the next project with a full package of DLCs and repeat.

Be aware when signing for services provided by this company.

If you want to know more, just check what happened with War of the Roses and War of the Vikings franchise.