Stellaris Game Director Eladrin here!

Earlier this week we released our major expansion for the year and the first “episode” of Stellaris: Season 08 – The Machine Age. The team has worked tirelessly on this expansion, with some (admittedly rough) estimates putting the amount of work that went into this expansion somewhere on the order of 20 man-years.

Stellaris 8th Anniversary Trailer​

The Stellaris team and I are overwhelmed by the Community’s response to The Machine Age. We’ve been watching our Community channels closely over the past two days, looking for both the things that you like, and the things that you dislike about the new expansion. But today, we just want to stop for a second to say: Thank you! Thank you for being part of our Community, for playing Stellaris, for the support you’ve shown us over the past eight years, for being excited when we get it right, and for letting us know when we’ve got it wrong.

As an anecdotal example of this, we recently did an AMA on /r/Stellaris (you can find it here): out of the hundreds of questions we had asked, we had 0 comments removed for being inappropriate and/or breaking rules. I don’t know how many Game Directors would be able to come out and say something like that, but I’m gonna gloat about it a little bit during the next Social Hour.

Happy Anniversary, Stellaris Community! ​

Thank you for being there for us over the years. The future of Stellaris looks so bright, we have many more space adventures planned, and we can’t wait to bring you with us through the Cosmic Storms!