We are Paradox Development Studio - creators of the game Hearts of Iron IV and its upcoming expansion La Résistance - Ask us anything!

Hello there,

We are part of Paradox Development Studio and Paradox Interactive. We are currently working on the upcoming expansion La Résistance for the WW2 Grand Strategy Game: Hearts of Iron IV. La Réistance will release on February 25 2020.

We are here today to answer any questions you may have about the expansion, game development at Paradox, or any other questions you may have for us.

If you never heard of us or our games before, please check out the Paradox Interactive website, google us or whatever.

We’ll start answering questions at 1pm ET / 7pm CET. We’ll keep on going for at least an hour, maybe longer, depending on how much you want to know! As

Here's our proof! https://twitter.com/HOI_Game/status/1227937526058536961

The ones answering your questions: Björn Blomberg Community Manager u/Paradoxal_Bear Engin Mercan Programmer u/PDX_taytay/ Viktor Dahlberg QA Tester u/CraniumMuppet/ Daniel Sjöberg QA Tester u/TheDa9L Dan Lind Game Director u/podcat2 Vachon Pugh Producer u/VashTheStampede_PDS Paul Depre Project Coordinator u/PDJR_Alastorn-PDS Albina Lind Artist u/albina_lind Manuel Molina Content Designer u/ManoDeZombi Gabriel Blum Content Design u/PDX_Archangel Drikus Kuiper Content Design u/Bratyn Katya Boestad Analytics u/Nyctala Josh Bassett Community Ambassador u/Addaway23 Robert Dotson Game Designer u/YaBoy_Bobby Viktor Stadler Commercial Manager u/wazp_/ Troy Goodfellow PR u/TroyAtPdx

We are ready for your questions! :)

It's now 9pm here in Sweden and it's time for us all to retire for the evening. Thank you all for coming and asking us your questions, it's been great! It's officially over, but some more questions might still be answered in the morning. Good night!

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Paradoxal_Bear112 karma

It's now 9pm here in Sweden and it's time for us all to retire for the evening. Thank you all for coming and asking us your questions, it's been great! It's officially over, but some more questions might still be answered in the morning. Good night!

swagomon17 karma

What’s the best part of working for PDX?

Paradoxal_Bear30 karma

I really love my co-workers and being able to talk about computer games most of the day. Been here for 8 years now, the longest employment of my life, and the best.

CraniumMuppet20 karma

For me its the coworkers, they are great

Paradoxal_Bear23 karma

For me its the coworkers, they are great

Verifying this is an official answer :)

discountshelley13 karma

Hi.

I love your work and I love the passion that goes into it. I'm looking forward to playing the new expansion.

I want to ask a sensitive question, but I want to be clear I am not suggesting any ill intent or bias by Paradox.

  1. Any one who spends time in your community knows there is a small fringe of the far right in your fan base. What is Paradox doing to make these people feel unwelcome?
  2. On a related note. Hearts of Iron obviously does not depict Axis atrocities. This is both a morally justifiable decision, and in many countries a legally justifiable one. However, it does show events like The Great Purge, the Bengal Famine, and the flooding of the Yellow River dykes. Right now, the Allies are depicted as killing more civilians than the Axis. Again, it's obviously not intentional. But the implications are unfortunate. Apart from legal constraints, how does the team decide how to portray such sensitive subject matter?

Thanks for the great content. I know that those questions are about unpleasant stuff, but I'm asking them honestly.

Paradoxal_Bear31 karma

As Community Manager I'll reply to 1 and let the game designer answer 2 :)

We are actively supporting and acting to push our values of inclusion and acceptance. I guess this usually make extremist fringe groups feel unwanted judging from their reactions to such displays.

We are also removing hate speech and bigotry to the best of our abilities in all our channels. Sometimes things slip through, and we appreciate when you bring such occurances to our attention.

SergantS3 karma

Good Evening.Sry for my bad english, but i'd like to know what kind of collaboration World War Two channel will be doing with you? Will it be a series of promotional videos or something more deep?

Thanks!

Paradoxal_Bear2 karma

I think we will let the video(s) speak for themselves. We hope you'll enjoy them :) It was great fun working on it together with Indy and his team. Amazing guys!