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Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Very surprising. The game looked like it had a lot of potential and could've been the most popular sims alternative, but it's suddenly been cancelled.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably because it would be the death of Sims is why it was canceled this way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What in the actual fuck are you on about?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wow people here don't comprehend the third order calculation

Ea regularly buys out or pays off anyone who makes sim competitors.

Look it up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In order to buy out Paradox, EA would have to make an offer for their entire existing share float, which would then have to be accepted by the shareholders. This means that they would almost certainly sell their stock at over market value (because why would they accept less?).

From their point of view, this would be a good thing. So why then would the shareholders allow this project to be cancelled if it was about to net them a huge payout, according to your theory?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Holy fuck I think the bots here cant fuckin read

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

well we still have paralives right as an upcoming"sims killer"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

im interested in it but i don't know if it will kill the sims

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Well, this is fucking depressing…

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Sad. In a way, it is amazing that The Sims 3 is 15 years old now and still, no game is able to match it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

There's some ageless classics. HoMM3 came out 25 years ago and is still pretty much the top of its genre. Freespace2 more or less shut down the spacesim genre 25 years ago, as well...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oof. Wasn't this the one that was going to have in-depth object customization? I was looking forward to it from a dollhouse-building perspective. Even if it wasn't great, having some competition might convince EA to allocate more dev resources to the Sims, which has ruthlessly embraced the "minimum viable product" philosophy for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

i dont know if its MVP or if they are just taking as low a risk as possible on their investments. they have no financial incentive to try anything new

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