Paradox Interactive, that studio that publishes all those grand strategy games with oodles of DLC, announced via a forum thread and a post on X earlier this week that inactive Paradox accounts will be “cleaned up” come March of next year. In other words, those accounts will be deleted if they don’t show some sign of life in the intervening months.
The posts clarify that an inactive account is one that hasn’t logged in since Sep. 2025, and Paradox staff forum account Elmaze said the “maintenance event” is happening because getting rid of excess accounts in the database “helps us maintain performance, reduce clutter, and keep our systems healthy for active players.” And to be clear, logging in via a game launcher counts—you don’t have to log into the Paradox website or anything.
That means the upcoming housecleaning likely only concerns a tiny number of people anyway—if you’re any kind of active Paradox player, you’ll be fine. Local save files and owned games will be unaffected either way since they aren’t managed by the account. The main thing Paradox accounts are used for is multiplayer, and if you aren’t attached to your old info or forum badges, you can always just make a new one.
There is one fringe scenario where this might mean you lose access to a game you own: if your Paradox account is attached to an unclaimed game code, and you never received an email for it or somehow lost it. But in a forum post, Elmaze said that can be resolved through Paradox’s regular support channels.
Suffice it to say, this should really only worry you in a very narrow set of situations. And if you happen to fall within the above criteria, you have eight months to log in once. And if you don’t, why not take the excuse to start a new Crusader Kings save? It’s about to get playable popes, you know.
