Paradox take the blame for Bloodines 2 not selling as planned, will "evaluate" how to do World of Darkness games going forwards

"Promised expansions" and updates volition inactive beryllium coming to the vampire crippled successful the adjacent year

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 hasn't sold arsenic good arsenic publishers Paradox predicted. As such, the institution person announced plans to write-down 355 cardinal Swedish Krona (approximately £28 million/$37 million) of the game's improvement costs - fundamentally the fiscal mode of saying thing on the lines of 'oops, this isn't worthy arsenic overmuch arsenic we thought it was'.

In a announcement announcing this write-down Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester said the game's a "strong vampire fantasy" and that Paradox are pleased with the enactment that's gone into it from developers The Chinese Room. As such, the digit of blame's being pointed astatine Paradox themselves for having overtly precocious expectations regarding however good Bloodlines 2 would bash financially.

"A period aft merchandise we tin sadly spot that income bash not lucifer our projections, which necessitates the write-down," Wester said. "The work lies afloat with america arsenic the publisher. The crippled is extracurricular of our halfway areas, successful hindsight it is wide that this has made it hard for america to gauge sales."

Here are the bits which are applicable to those of america who aren't present to look astatine Paradox's wealth numbers. In airy of this, Wester said the steadfast volition "evaluate however we champion develop" World of Darkness games going forwards, but stressed that Bloodlines 2 volition inactive beryllium getting the additions which person already been acceptable successful chromatic for it. "Our post-release program remains firm; we volition present updates and the promised expansions to the crippled successful the coming year," Wester confirmed. So, if you bought the premium edition, you'll inactive get the 2 expansions you paid for.

Paradox's admittance present follows departed Chinese Room co-founder Dan Pinchbeck precocious revealing that the workplace started trying to person the publishers to telephone the crippled thing different than Bloodlines 2 was a precedence for him astir arsenic soon arsenic helium became progressive successful the project, which bumped from workplace to workplace during development. "I came successful and went, 'we can't marque Bloodlines 2, we can't marque Skyrim, but we tin marque Dishonored," Pinchbeck recalled.

The sanction didn't change, leaving Bloodlines 2 arsenic a crippled that successful the eyes of galore is defined arsenic overmuch by what it isn't arsenic what it is. "The wide occupation present is that successful a twelvemonth packed with perfectly astonishing games of each shapes and sizes, Bloodlines 2 is simply okay," wrote Dominic Tarason successful our review. "An entertaining mid-budget mode to walk a fewer evenings successful a acquainted setting."