Paradox Interactive today announced that multiple titles from their recent catalogue have reached impressive new milestones for worldwide sales. Three games, all created by the publisher’s internal teams at Paradox Development Studio, have enjoyed highly successful launches and ongoing sales in recent weeks, thanks to Paradox’s dedicated community of players and their ongoing, long-term support for each game in their library.
Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox’s recently released World War II-themed grand strategy game, has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide in less than two weeks after its release, making it the publisher’s fastest-selling historical strategy game to date. Stellaris, the developer’s first sci-fi grand strategy title, has now sold over 500,000 copies worldwide in just over a month since its release in early May. Finally, Europa Universalis IV, Paradox’s iconic world-conquest grand strategy game, has now sold over 1 million copies worldwide, not including sales of expansions and other downloadable content (DLC) for the core game.
Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive, said:
“PC gaming is thriving, and we’re doing incredibly well in a market that is increasingly competitive. Over the course of our company’s lifetime, we have remained dedicated to creating deep and challenging games for players who want experiences that will last for countless hours. The key to these successes – games that not only sell well at launch, but sell sustainably for years to come – is that we continue to provide ongoing support and development, and remain connected to our community to understand what our players want from their time with our games. The PC platform is ideal for keeping our games updated and supported, thanks to our ability to easily share updates and new expansions – and for our players to share their creative mods.”
To celebrate these milestones, Paradox is offering a new musical add-on for Europa Universalis IV to all players for free for a limited time. Starting today and lasting through July 4, 2016, the new DLC “Fredman’s Epistles” can be downloaded from Steam at no charge, adding a collection of traditional Swedish songs from the 18th century to the game’s soundtrack. The songs, arranged from original works by famed Swedish poet and songwriter Carl Michael Bellman
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Good to see these sorts of games doing well on PC, especially considering the generic, scripted, third person, cut scene madness junk shown at E3 recently.
Yeah thats true, to many same crap all over, but hey thats what sells atleast on console junk :/
I’ve put in nearly 100 hours into Stellaris and has the game continues to be updated with new expansions that Steam counter will only grow.
well deserved.
Realy really good news. I dont play those kind of games but im glad they doing great!
Every news about pc gaming that sells, is F*CKN good news!
Good!!
All those games and hardly a new C&C in sight. How I wish for real time strategy base building games to make a proper return in a big way, it’s been far too long.
AFAIK, Grey Goo has similar gameplay mechanics as the (not so) old C&C games. But yeah, more games would be welcome (especially if they are not targeted to the eSports crowd like StarCraft 2).
It had similar mechanics but it’s execution, marketing and gameplay ended up being flawed, it became one of those RTS titles that had a brief spark of light but then quickly went out soon afterwards.
and none of those games use the D.
But hey piracy is ruining pc gaming and other excuses.
I am still waiting to see how ubisoft is gonna spin their low sales now they got the D.
Agreed. But, on the other hand, you can’t blame studios from covering their backs with the D. If anything, taking away the excuse from piracy, studios now have the duty to deliver a well optimised, working product or it will not sell. I guess, in a way, the D was partly the reason why Arkham Knight was pulled from Steam to be worked on to fix it (that and, obviously, the new Steam refund policy): due to criticism of the PC version being overwhelming, not only people avoided buying it, but those who bought it were also refunding it. Thus, WB was losing money and now they couldn’t blame pirates due to Denuvo. You can say the game is not entirely fixed as of today, but they still had to endure that backlash and relent and fix it (mostly). And you can now see the result: the base game, a year after release, lies at the $29.99 price point, lower than the less well received Mad Max (still at full retail price).
My point is, if Paradox or another publisher decides to use Denuvo to give their games an extra layer of protection (without hurting the game, like losing mod support), I would not hold it against them.
I dont blame them for using the D I blame them for going after a boogieman when they are not getting new sales because of the D
” studios now have the duty to deliver a well optimised, working product or it will not sell.”
And so far they dont do it.
After Lords of the Fallen and AK, I’ve not seen many disasters using Denuvo, with the exception of Just Cause 3.
One thing i learned about these GrandStrategy games is this: They have a great community, i just aksed some questions about these types of games in steam and youtube (two troll fest location) but in return i get answers and tons of information and help from others.
Stellaris is the best Paradox game so far and a true successor to Master of Orion 2 I’ve been waiting for. Comparing new MoO and Stellaris, latter is a clear winner. It does everything a space 4X strategy should and even more with RPG elements and tons of events. I hope for additional content, more ship types, races, events, techs, etc.