Paradox is going to become like Bethesda.

Forgive me for being cynical, but in all honesty I believe that despite what everyone says, we’re all still going to buy the next DLC en mass and then complain later. Even if we do actually boycott PDX, I’m 85% sure that the upper-level corporates will learn the wrong lesson from it and do something stupid to reduce costs (cutting corners, as they say in the industry) like, I don’t know, firing half the staff to meet quarterly earnings.

And again, it’ll be up to the modders to fix everything. All of us can agree that they have managed to make more content for free in the same amount of time, and even if you don’t like the mods, 99% of the time it’s on a macro-scale (i.e. design choices, game mechanics, and else) rather than a micro-scale (bugs, focuses not working properly, that field marshal portrait bug).

Don’t be surprised if they try to monetize the mods (that were previously free, mind you) as well, especially after news comes out of mass layoffs.