Paradox Cancels Xbox Game Pass Launch 'After Discussion With Partners'

Maybe Valve offered more money

Pass then. Yea this is all I have to add

Paradox making some odd choices lately. Think they're losing favour with a lot of their fanbase.

I'm a big fan of Victoria 2 and paradox so I will still be checking this out.

Paradox is just a weird publisher. They have a ton of games but all of them look like third rate budget titles. I'll mostly just forever remember them as the company that, for years, spammed me almost daily about Prison Architect, and I have no idea how they ever even got my email because I'm pretty sure I've never had anything to do with them, ever.

@NEStalgia There you are! We've been trying to reach you about Prison Architect. Would you like to know more??

I rather liked Victoria 2 in it's time.. seems like a business deal falling through, happens all the time. Maybe they announced GP release on a handshake deal.
Anyway, wouldn't blame it on either side or devalue anyone without further context.

I am a big paradox fan. I own most of their mainline strategy games and their different offerings like I own all the hearts of iron games and EU games as well as all the CK and Vicky games and I just preordered this last night. However, lately especial with EU they have been doing a ***** job getting their releases out without massive game breaking bugs. I do appreciate the sub service for EU my wife can play with me and her own games without having to spend hundreds of dollars on the xpansions.

Dang! I was looking forward to that game. I bought Crusader Kings III. I like to play strategy games, too, in addition to games in other genres.

@SplooshDmg UWP is already gone. It only gets security updates now, the SDK is no longer updated with new features. And Game Engines such as Game Maker have now removed the ability to export in the UWP format.

You use the Windows App SDK to create games for the MS Store and Xbox now, not UWP. Xbox also has the GDK which most developers use, and physical games must use.

UWP apps are still accepted, but support for it is poor when developing, as 3rd-parties are starting to pull it out of their catalogues.

Either way I doubt that's a reason, as Paradox has many many games on MS Store, such as EU4, CK3, Stellaris, Cities Skylines, Hearts of Iron. Likely they didn't get what they wanted from MS in terms of the lump sum GP titles get offered, so they just pulled it entirely.

@Hexamex-Tex I don't think they care seen as you obviously wasn't going to buy the game anyway lol

Don't think I've often heard a third party game outed as a steam exclusive before.
This is a bad precedent though, might be just this game for all we know but it makes me wonder if any other previously announced game will just not appear on the service.

@Would_you_kindly obviously. However on Gamepass I would have checked it out. Purchase? Why? Not like there is a shortage of games.

I'm more of a Kalypso guy, but to each their own.

Was it them or MS that originally claimed it would be on XGP?

@Hexamex-Tex & if they decide to release a demo you can still try it

@Would_you_kindly yeah generally not interested in demos but maybe. I have more games than time. They advertised this as a Gamepass game then changed at the last minute. So whatever.

@Glare
If you are interested in game why dont you buy it then?

@Neverwild I don't like to waste money on a game that I will not play because I don't like the game, so I like to try them out or see gameplay videos before I buy the game.

And precisely zero ***** were given

@Savage_Joe Why would Valve pay a publisher money to make an obscure game like Victoria 3 a Steam exclusive when they want to make money, not dish it out?

The only PC store that does that is the Epic Game Store. What is likely to have actually happened was that the deal to bring this to Game Pass wasn't finalised and Microsoft decided to pull out.