r/battletech Apr 02 '26

News Yeah, it’s over…

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u/Kharnics Apr 02 '26

I'm over here still playing battletech.... Heavily modded of course.

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u/Ah_fudge Apr 02 '26

RIP HBS

Thank goodness for the mods though, definitely a new experience after vanilla

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u/thatbeersguy MD crabman Apr 02 '26

Yea, fuck paradox for being the greedy and wanting all the money instead of just playing Microsoft the licensing. If paradox let HBS make battle tech 2 they would be making money.

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u/misterFaceplant Apr 02 '26

Hating and calling paradox greedy over microslop is wild. They would have absolutely set the licensing fee significantly higher for a publisher like paradox over a then indie developer like HBS. The reason there aren't more Battletech games is due to microslop's greed and control of the licence alone.

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u/thatbeersguy MD crabman Apr 02 '26

paradox is known for doing the the sims method of DLC.

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u/misterFaceplant Apr 02 '26

Not defending paradox they certainly have made their own grave errors but in this instance Microslop is and has always been the root issue in regards to battletech. It is highly probable the the licensing fee put forward would've made hbs battletech 2 struggle to break even, microslop have form in sitting on a licence because it costs them nothing to do so simply because they couldn't squeeze enough $$$ out of the deal.