Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear in my post! The two experiments I mean are selling games in early access and also giving 1 year exclusivity to Epic Games Store. I don’t hope that the game fails, I hope that this 1 year EA exclusive period fails to get the adequate sales to make Paradox consider this same route for another game in the future.
In a year’s time, assuming it’s out and not tied exclusively to EGS, I will strongly consider the game as I do any Paradox title. I liked Surviving Mars, even at launch, and the devs always struck me as good people.