'You don't know anything about what it's like under the surface, because a lot of companies are so good at presenting this facade.Buy Europa Universalis IV: Ultimate Bundle 'When it comes to when people talk about bugs and stuff in games, you always hear 'QA don't do their job, blah, blah, blah.' But what they don't know is that there's so much more stuff going on behind the scenes at these games companies that they don't know about,' one person told us. Last year, we spoke to several current and former Paradox QA staff who alleged being underpaid and poorly treated.

Prison Architect's DLC has been similarly criticised for being buggy and imbalanced. Dharma, the DLC before that, has mostly negative reviews. The previous DLC, Emperor, was buggy albeit less so and currently has mixed reviews on Steam. This isn't the first time Paradox DLC has been released to heavy criticism from its community. I can however promise you that we are working as hard as we can to get patches out, and we've taken a good hard look at how this could be allowed to happen.' But as I also said earlier: at this point no words alone, we or I say can fix things.

'We obviously made a grave miscalculation of the state of the version we decided to release and we are truly sorry about that. In a post on the same forum, Paradox community manager BjornB expressed similar sentiments.

In a since deleted post (available on the Web Archive) on the game's forum, Andersson wrote that they had 'identified and corrected some issues in our production process based on learnings from this release and are taking concrete action - both to fix the existing issues and to ensure future releases meet the quality you expect.' Leviathan is the first EU4 DLC produced by new studio Paradox Tinto, led by original EUIV designer Johan Andersson.

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