Fredrick Wester offered a frank criticism of Sword of the Stars 2 during the recent Paradox Convention, as the Paradox Interactive CEO called releasing the space strategy sequel in an unfinished state a "big mistake." according to Strategy Informer. He went on to explain this turned into a Kobayashi Maru scenario: "Sometimes you’re stuck in a situation where you can only choose between two really bad outcomes. Looking back I’m not sure what I could have done." He does offer an outlook on how they will attempt to prevent a repeat of this scenario:

We’re changing our QA processes based on this game, and we’re changing the whole model of how we make games with third parties. We’ve added amendments to existing contracts to prepare, to try and stop it from happening again."

"But it was bad, and I’m the first to admit it was my fault and we’re doing our best to fix it."