Ahead of the digital version of PDXCON scheduled for later this month, Paradox's segment and portfolio manager for strategy games, Bevan Davies, posted an update on the official forums, explaining the studio's organizational changes According to Davies, currently Paradox Development Studios has more than 150 developers on staff, but the restructuring has divided them into three teams, each working on a separate project. Unfortunately, none of them is "Imperator": it is Rome.

Davies explained, "We realized that we needed to strengthen some of the projects in PDS, and considering the status of Imperator until the launch of 2.0, we decided to move people from Imperator to other projects after the launch of the update. Currently, no one is working on Imperator: currently no one is working on Imperator: Rome, and there will be no "new content coming out in 2021," but it will return eventually.

"We are currently working on a plan to reorganize the Imperator team and continue development," Davies wrote, "but in the short term we needed to focus our efforts on these other projects."

These other projects are under the control of three Paradox Development Studios, nicknamed PDS Green, PDS Red, and PDS Gold. Each is working on an unannounced game ("We will know more about at least one of them at PDXCON this month") and maintaining one existing game: PDS Green is working on Stellaris, PDS Red on Crusader Kings 3, and PDS Gold is working on Hearts of Iron 4.

Europa Universalis 4 is currently being handled by Paradox Tinto, an outside studio that opened last year. Its latest expansion, Leviathan, has been poorly received and has the lowest user rating on Steam at 8%. Meanwhile, the content designer for Hearts of Iron 4 has said that player toxicity is keeping Paradox developers away from the forums."