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Originally Posted by HorrorRoach
Their line of thinking is all wrong.
"Unfortunately, as all businesses we have goals, budgets, profits, losses, expenses, and wages. We have milestones to meet with our future products, and we just cannot miss those."
"Most of you have probably guessed that Cliffs of Dover was not exactly the most profitable project in the world, and for at least the past year supporting it did nothing for the bottom line but put it deeper into the red."
They're acting like they can't make money off Cliffs of Dover anymore. This is ridiculous. It's not like the market is "tapped out"... As a matter of fact, the fastest way for them to make money is to fix Cliffs of Dover so more people buy it. Some advertising would help too. The money they're spending on developing the sequel should be used to advertise Cliffs of Dover. All company personnel should be working on making Cliffs of Dover a game that people are forced to buy because it's awesome. I don't want to hear crap about how the flight sim market is small, not many people are into these types of game... The sales will never be spectacular. Well, make a damn game that increases the simmer base, give newcomers motivation to overcome the learning curve required to enjoy the game. You just need an awesome game.
They're going to make this sequel, and it's not going to be much better then COD is now. Mark my words. They're going to keep releasing half finished products for spurts of money to keep afloat. I think they're only half serious about these games.
EJ
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Wishful thinking....
1. The Simmer-Community already knows about the game and many have bought it. So you wouldn´t win a lot of customers extra with a fixed game in the Simmer-Community. Additionally you also can win these customers with a perfectly working BOM which will include CloD as it seems.
2. Advertising costs (a lot btw). And...
3. be sure it is easier to advertise a brandnew Product (sequel) than a broken one of which tons of negative Feedback on the Internet already exists.
So I see no reason to try to push it to a fixed CloD instead of a working BoM because
all you can have trough a fixed CloD you can also have with a BoM that works well. (plus you have time to develop new things as you don´t loose time with fixing which means you can deliver new content).
Simple as that.