Sorry ... i wanted to write you a reply, but i forgot about it. :-/
My comment about Paradox was less their games (especially the games they just publish) and more how they usually make the Dev Diaries for their GSG titles. Sometimes they acknowledge feedback and explain how it influences game design and such.
Not saying they are great, but that this specific practice could have lessened the disconnect between the EA-players and Larians final release.
As i said, i was watching their development of Bloodlines 2 very closely, i have read every Dev Diary, often even twice over just to be sure i didnt miss any important information i could chew meanwhile ...
And it was mostly disapointment.
I admit i dont remember content of all of them, but i clearly remember as i was allways exited when some was released, hoping i get some interesting tidbit about game, or its mechanics ... and as i was complaining after each and every single one of them, that they were complete waste of my (and anyone who wrote them as the matter of fact) time.
I remember that when whole world was 3rd or 4th month in quarantene, they wrote Dev Diary about "it was not really easy to work from home" ... like, duh ... we noticed mr developer, we are all living like this for 1/4 of year now. :-/ How is that any new?
And then we waited another few months for them to release another Dev Diary, wich was basicaly just poor excuse for them to repeat that working from home still sucks and show us pictures of their pets.
It was outraging and in matter of informations, absolutely useless.
So ... yeah, Dev Diaries can be usefull tool ... but i strongly recomend Lariain to NOT take inspiration from Paradox in that regard. xD
