Players were not thrilled with the recent Crusader Kings 3 DLC.
The developers of the global strategy game Crusader Kings 3 presented the Coronations DLC in September. It received "extremely negative" reviews on Steam, with only about 17% positive.
There are complaints not only about the quality of the Coronations DLC (technical issues, various bugs). Players also note the small amount of content.
The quality control manager at PDS Black, the studio working on Crusader Kings 3, responded to the community's dissatisfaction:
«I want to talk to you directly and honestly. First of all. I'm not a PR person, and I don't have an elite team of speechwriters who could write this response for me. I work at Paradox and care deeply about this game and our community.
I want to take a moment to express what has been on my mind all day and prompted me to ask management for permission to publish this post: I'm sorry.»
He said that the team put a lot of effort into the upcoming All Under Heaven DLC, and therefore less resources were allocated to Coronations:
«This is the largest expansion we've ever undertaken, and in order to make it both interesting and stable, it required most of our experienced developers and almost all of the studio's resources to ensure that performance meets your expectations. Because of this, our other projects, such as Coronations, were allocated fewer resources. While I am very proud of the development team and amazed at what they have achieved with such limited resources, we did not allocate enough people to oversee the release and meet our quality requirements, and this was clearly unfair to both them and you, our fans.»
The manager assured that the studio will now conduct testing more thoroughly, and also announced that there are plans to release "at least one more patch for Coronations to fix many of the problems we encountered before release but did not have time to fix."
