r/Paladins Jul 23 '26

MOD Regarding the "Paladins 2" fan project fundraiser

404 Upvotes

Hi all,

We’ve been removing posts promoting the recent “Paladins 2” fundraiser as quickly as they’re reported to us following an enormous amount of spam. However, given the sheer number being submitted, and the amount of trust some people appear willing to place in its creator, I felt a brief announcement was necessary.

As Killgoon has confirmed, the Paladins IP is not currently for sale, and any money donated to this project will not ultimately go towards a Paladins 2.

We’ve also identified several accounts which appear to be AI-operated repeatedly posting the promotional videos and leaving supportive comments beneath related posts. Whilst we’re not going to outright label the project a scam, there's no denying that the circumstances are certainly suspicious.

It’s clear that much of the support for this comes from a place of passion, and that many people simply want to see the IP continue. Personally, however, I don’t believe this project represents a realistic way of achieving that -- as much as I wish it did!

At the time of writing, the fundraiser is displaying “Suspended donations”, which the creator says is because they paused it following concerns from the community. They have nevertheless confirmed that existing donations are being retained.

The creator has stated that donors will be refunded if they have done “nothing serious” with the money by November. That condition is intentionally vague and should not be treated as a guarantee that donations will be returned. If you’ve already donated, I would strongly encourage you to review this information carefully and contact GoFundMe directly if you have concerns.

Automod has now been updated to remove links promoting this fundraiser. If there are attempts to circumvent this filter (as AI bots like to do...) then it will result in a permanent ban, so please don’t test the system.

There are plenty of meaningful ways you can still support Paladins. Continue playing the game, (re-)introduce your friends, create and share content, and organise/participate in community events a lá SEA Revival. Maintaining a visible and active community is the clearest way to demonstrate that we still care about this IP, not throwing your money at dubious projects making vague promises.

Best,
Callum & the r/Paladins mod team


r/Paladins Feb 06 '25

NEWS | HIREZ RESPONDED Paladins development Is being halted

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4.1k Upvotes

r/Paladins 1h ago

MEDIA Moji Team Wipe

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Follow EdgyOgEnvy on YouTube or Edgy_Og_Envy On TikTok for more.


r/Paladins 1d ago

HUMOR Through the years.

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141 Upvotes

Remember grinding for champions back in 2016? The evolution of Paladins is wild, and I can’t believe how far it’s come.


r/Paladins 21h ago

MEDIA Paladins Dlss5

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71 Upvotes

r/Paladins 18h ago

MEDIA Night full of crash outs

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28 Upvotes

Is this normal lmaooo I haven’t played that often at night (eastern) almost every game, everyone was trolling/crashing out immediately

I’m kinda amazed by how angry everyone is 😭😭


r/Paladins 1d ago

CHAT What exactly does Hi-Rez do?

89 Upvotes

Is Smite 2 the only thing they are working on these days? What is the financial incentive for them simply maintaining the servers for paladins? seems like plenty of people are willing to buy the battlepass and whatnot so can anyone tell me what the deal with this game company is >:( also any word on if they will allow community servers once official support is over? The fact that there is only a PS4 version of the game makes me kinda sad that it probably won't be on next gen platforms at all


r/Paladins 13h ago

BUG Controller sometimes doesnt react

3 Upvotes

I use a switch pro controller on my laptop.

Most rounds i can play normally but sometimes the controller doesnt react.

It is still normally connected to my device and even paladins itself reconizes the controller because i can still get to the pause menu.

This bug happens in one match and after the match it starts reacting normally again.

Does anyone know a solution? Thank you


r/Paladins 1d ago

ART New Vora x Io drawing. It's a prequel to a drawing I already posted on X. You can check it out on my profile @soroakoficial

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350 Upvotes

r/Paladins 20h ago

LFG Last Man Standing Trophy.

13 Upvotes

I know it has been a while, but I'm interested in the platinum of this game that i've spent hours and hours into it. Just reaching out if anyone is interested into doing a 5 squad to make it done to each one of us. Thanks.

My PSN ID is: Psychedelicasyy

Let me know so we can arrange a day and hour to get it done!


r/Paladins 1d ago

F'BACK What if?…..

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14 Upvotes

If you could introduce 6 different clash royale cards into paladins as a champion who would you have and what would their abilities be? This would high key be cool since clash royale is the only game that could match aesthetics with paladins as a PvP shooter😭


r/Paladins 1h ago

MEDIA People who still play paladins when overwatch and rivals are free

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People who still play paladins when overwatch and rivals are free


r/Paladins 1d ago

ART "Without you I'm nothing"

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97 Upvotes

How you even play without this card?


r/Paladins 1d ago

F'BACK Discussion Updates

7 Upvotes

Heya all. I have a question I wanna discuss with you all.

Why did Paladins fall?

Let me explain first:

I always had a theory why Paladins did fall off compared to Overwatch which was and is based on my understanding of what "Peak Paladins" is or was.

But I discovered I'm actually wrong, at least if I analyse the steam charts.

So I'm an open beta player. And we all know that open beta was peak Paladins gameplay for many fans and that OB64 was a big turning point in the history of the game. But I want to go into depths and for me it was not only the open beta but also the year 2018, so actually the phase after the most criticised patch.

All those great events, absolutely iconic skins, so much variety in game modes and much more.

I always thought that Paladins did overcome the critical update and that the events were actually attracting more players and that the shortage of those later on was a major cause for the games final dying stage.

The steam charts tell a different story though. Most people seemed to play in-between the events and I can't find a solid pattern that explains the stats.

So maybe you have an idea.

So while Paladins had it's gameplay/balance peak arguably in its beta before OB64 (more movement, more options), I also like to remember my favourite events a lot and in my opinion Dark Tides was the best overall.

The new dark pirate themed map, the release in autumn close to Halloween/October, the grind to get all the coins from the Vivian minions that spawned in random games. Just awesome.

But for some reason the player stats dropped around those events.

Let's check the steam charts. So we have beautiful numbers until mid 2017. Then we saw a rapid decline because of critical updates that peaked in OB64.

And while it's purely logical that quite a few players probably didn't return afterwards, it wasn't really dying at this point.

The biggest crash happened in february 2018 but the numbers began to rise again until summer 2018.

August and september/october mark the months of the greatest events in my opinion but we got another huge crash here which makes no sense to me. And I think that late 2018 was actually the point of no return. Early 2019 peak players did fall below 25000 and there wasn't a real recovery since then.

So while I thought that the lack of variety was a major cause I now think that this is not the entire picture cause the events couldn't catch new and old players like they did catch me which actually surprises me a lot.

If I try to draw a bigger picture I think that OB64 started the cascade but I can't really explain what happened late 2018 because for me it was the second peak phase of the game.

So what do you think?

Btw. my solution, even today, would be to rewind the most critical changes, keeping the skins and characters and restart the events. I would maybe even use the old events in rotation at the beginning. We are close to october again so I would start with Dark Tides. I would bring back cauterize and the old cards, I would rebuild the movement talents (BK, Maeve for example, to allow more outstanding gameplay) and actually also bring back the top play even though a lot seemed to hate it but enabling the option to skip it.

So I would combine the variety and events from 2018 with battlepasses with old beloved game mechanics.

I would also ask for community artworks and skins again. I would let the community decide and get seasonal fitting themes back into the game.

Because it's a matter of cost I can't start with too much new stuff, that's why I would just the best of what was already in the game. I would also bring old gamemodes and maps back, always in rotation or I would introduce more bots at the beginning to get sufficient players while keeping the queue time low.

If the game recovers I would restart eSports. I don't know why this was stopped in the first place. You can do this stuff without spending too much money. There are sponsors and we can see on games like trackmania what single people can do and achieve.


r/Paladins 2d ago

ART 3d printed Androxus 1/10 Statue

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314 Upvotes

Hey guys, I designed and 3d printed this Androxus statue.

Its about 25cm tall

Cheers!


r/Paladins 1d ago

HELP Oceania Servers

15 Upvotes

Pretty much I used to play the shit out of paladins 5+ years ago, and every now and then try to hop on but every time I wait 15 mins then play against 5 bots with the same character. Is the game this dead in Oceania? Usually around times that the game should be more active, just checking if this is normal or I’m missing something. Suck to see this go unplayed down under


r/Paladins 2d ago

CHAT PALADINS SEA ( SOUTHEASTASIA) SERVER REVIVAL

35 Upvotes

​Hello, everyone! I think its time for me to have this post now! First of all, thx for my friend trolleroid doing the reddit post to attract people to come to queue SouthEastAsia (SEA) server at every friday at 9pm SGT! I am the one who host it and stream it on twitch every week,
here is my twtich channel: https://www.twitch.tv/marcopro200
Now, i want more people come to join the queue if possible, we are also hosting custom on SATURDAY and SUNDAY too! If you want to know more information,
here is my discord server link: https://discord.gg/xvkntkfge

I really want people come back to the game and have fun together , remember to queue SEA CASUALS at EVERY FRIDAY 9PM SGT! (We have been doing it for 15 weeks)


r/Paladins 2d ago

CHAT Current state of the game

33 Upvotes

I played a lot this game in the past. What's the current state of the game? Is it still worth playing?


r/Paladins 2d ago

HELP How long does ranked take to get into on eu?

4 Upvotes

Just wanted to know since i figured it would be fun if i tried out ranked after 3 years or so of playing casual


r/Paladins 2d ago

LFG Any Discord server?

3 Upvotes

Hi, was wondering if there's any european paladins discord server to find people to play with or js make community.


r/Paladins 3d ago

CHAT September 13th?

73 Upvotes

Hi, folks! Considering how successful August 9th was, could we maybe consider doing this sort of campaign every 2nd Sunday of the month, maybe?

I think it would be cool to make this sort of revival a monthly event to also capitalize possible new players. Does that makes sense to you all?


r/Paladins 3d ago

MEDIA a Ninja Push is always satisfactory

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124 Upvotes

OFC the emote was necessary


r/Paladins 2d ago

MEDIA The best types of matches :)

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26 Upvotes

r/Paladins 3d ago

MEDIA Streamer Icenek's perfect BK ult to win a 1v5 late game

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343 Upvotes

r/Paladins 3d ago

ART Vivian Portrait.

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119 Upvotes

So I changed Vivian a bit, I wanted to have a serious yet beautiful look. Beauty hidden in plain sight. Tried my best to have that Disco Elysium style but it was too hard for me.

In the end I love it. Nice to give some attention to Vivian. Hope you guys like it.