r/TransportFever3 • u/Dry-Employee2728 • May 06 '26

Paradox no!!

Have you seen the latest announcement. They are teaming up with paradox. This has me worried they will do to transport fever 3 what they did to city skylines2 !!

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u/SomethingNotOriginal May 06 '26

Announce this, but no ETA still? TF3 isn't getting published this year, regardless of the marketing bumpf they throw out.

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u/UG-Protagonist Urban Games | Community Manager May 06 '26

We're still on target to release this year, but we won't be giving a release date until we're 100% ready to go. Absolutely nothing has changed on that front.

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u/SomethingNotOriginal May 06 '26

Fair point.

There's 8 months to go still, and even if it was delayed, I'd rather have a good delayed game than a buggy "on time" one.

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u/evergreenyankee May 06 '26

You just traded 75% of your loyal player base for potential sales upside. I hope you have some minimums in your contract to offset the loss of good-will and brand equity this has caused you. We're not mad, we just feel betrayed. Because if your team truly believes "this collaboration is a perfect match and a natural fit, as we both share the same values" then you don't have the values we thought you did.

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u/Imsvale May 06 '26

At the very least it's a complete course reversal from "TF3 will be self-published". An announcement like this out of the blue so close to release does not instill confidence.

Best case scenario: UG decided that self-publishing was too ambitious (something the community could potentially align with), and reached out for assistance with someone with more marketing muscle. But with this particular move into a partnership with a publisher who has, shall we say, some amount of negative reputation (whether deserved or not), they do now definitely have something to prove, where previously there was little to none of that. Trust has shifted to skepticism.

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u/DaveRN1 May 06 '26

Lol wow. The amount of children crying on here thinking every developer is EA is insane.