Trivia / Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun

• Content Leak: The first dev diary for Victoria 3 was accidentally published a few hours before the game was officially announced at PDXCon 2021.
  • The whole game, although an unfinished dev build with many things missing, was released to the public in April 2022, even before the "Developer Diaries" were even finished.
• Dummied Out: Upon release, Victoria II had submarines and aircraft carriers as possible naval units, just like the original. For unspecified reasons, both were quickly dummied out in The House Divided and the patch related to it. They are still in the game files, however, and at least a few mods have brought them back.
• Sleeper Hit: One of the reasons support for Victoria II was discontinued so early and that it took so many years for a new Victoria sequel to be announced is because the game sold poorly, and indeed, continuing the Victoria series at all seemed like a gamble for Paradox. It came as a huge surprise to pretty much everyone when it was announced that Victoria 3 sold over half a million copies in its first month of release.

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