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Originally Posted by Nevar
I don't believe this is true. As far as I'm aware, KB is considered a cult classic- it has a small, dedicated number of players. There aren't that many people who prefer turn-based strategy over an FPS, RPG or RTS. I just don't think there is enough demand for KB to ever be a best-selling series, and it's not just because of the problems with WotN.
For the same reason, though, I don't think the devs will ever invest a lot in a multiplayer version of KB. You can argue and tell me HoMM has multiplayer, but HoMM is a different series.
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You don't have to prefer turn-based strategy over a certain genre in order to get a top selling game. You have to be able to make the game fun for people to play and put a lot better effort into your game then this game got. I play every type of genre game made as long as I find the game fun to play. Do I think that King's Bounty in its current condition is going to be a top seller....hell no. But you go on to say that turn based strategy can not be a top selling game and that is wrong. Civilization 5 is a turned based strategy game. Hell I mean its more turn based then King's Bounty is and people buy the crap out of it. Is it number 1 selling game of all time...no. Civilization is a good example of how if you make a turned based strategy game and you do a good job people will play it no matter what kinda game they like.
Why do people buy Civ 5? Well for one its a long running proven series that kinda started out like a cult classic but got pretty popular. They also buy it cause its a lot of fun to play and they do not care what category or genre it fits in. I mean hell over 2 years after release its still 1 of the top 10 played games on steam so I say turn based strategy can be a top seller if the effort is put into it. I have a lot of friends if I asked them if they liked turn based strategy games they would tell me..."no". But then I go on to say "but you play Civ 5 and its turn based strategy." And they say "Well that game is a lot of fun to play"
Even DragonAge on pc they thought people would not like the fact that you can pause the action. So basically DragonAge has turned into almost like a turn based strategy where you pause...issue orders...unpause and then repeat the process. But again where most people said it was a bad idea you have people that only want to play on PC cause of that feature alone that is not available on console.
I could argue from a single player point of a lot of people told Bethesda you going to have to make your game multiplayer or its just not going to sell. And they refused to make it multiplayer and after Morrowind,Oblivion,Fallout 3,New Vegas(they only partially developed this), and then Skyrim they basically continued to improve their game as time went and now not only have a best selling series they literally have thee best selling single player game of all time. Take a look at Arena(Elder Scrolls 1) would you have said that series would become the number 1 selling single player game of all time? Arena was crap it was pretty bad but a few people liked it. How about Daggerfalls(Elder Scrolls 2) would you have said it then? Probably not, so to say that King's Bounty is not capable of becoming a best seller I think is very wrong.
I know you going to say well civ 5 has multiplayer and you are right it does. Then you will go on to say that a single player turned based strategy game will never make it as a best seller. And well you could be right there,but you never know with their current effort especially with wotn. I see this game getting maybe one more installment if they do another halfazz job like that again.
At this point I think King's Bounty has a very good foundation to become a lot better selling of a game(not like we trying to make a best seller out of E.T. from Atari) it just depends on how much time and money 1C Company is willing to give it. And by my guess is not much.