People grumble about the price of Horizons but I don't see the problem and appreciate FDev's business model. I think it is progressive and very consumer friendly compared to other studios.
Paradox Development Studios, the developers of Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis 4 are, according to numerous pundits and game journalists, one of the highest regarded game developers according to PC gamers. You should check out their forums, those guys have a very loyal bunch of consumers. I am one of them.
Why? Because PDS blatenly respect their customers. People who love the game enough buy the expansions, which adds an extra chunk of focused content but isn't really necessary. BUT everyone benefits, with tweaks, minor gameplay improvements and support. Vanilla CK2 / EU4 is a very different game now compared to launch.
FDev is similar, though not quite as good.
To compare
Pricing:
Developer - Customer interaction (I think this should be included in business model):
PDS is just exemplary 9/10; FDev is pretty decent all the same at 7/10.
How do others feel?
Paradox Development Studios, the developers of Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis 4 are, according to numerous pundits and game journalists, one of the highest regarded game developers according to PC gamers. You should check out their forums, those guys have a very loyal bunch of consumers. I am one of them.
Why? Because PDS blatenly respect their customers. People who love the game enough buy the expansions, which adds an extra chunk of focused content but isn't really necessary. BUT everyone benefits, with tweaks, minor gameplay improvements and support. Vanilla CK2 / EU4 is a very different game now compared to launch.
FDev is similar, though not quite as good.
To compare
Pricing:
- PDS: release a couple of major expansions per year at £15 per expansion (£30 per year) plus little flavour packs (music, models, facepacks) which add another £10 per pack, with a bunch of patches, each of which add content throughout.
- FDev: (I think the plan is to) release one expansion per year @£40 and also release content patches throughout the year.
Developer - Customer interaction (I think this should be included in business model):
- PDS:If you look at any of the threads over at Paradox's forums, many of them have comments from the developers. I know the names of the people writing content for the games I play and have interacted with them a number of times. 10/10!
- FDev: Good! Compared to many other houses DB frequents the forums and there are very supportive of community BUT I am unsure of the presence the devs have in these here forums. I am fairly new but all the same, it takes mere seconds to see the dev presence at PDS's site.
PDS is just exemplary 9/10; FDev is pretty decent all the same at 7/10.
How do others feel?
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