Most Anticipated PC Game of 2010: vote for SoW! - Page 2

vpmedia · #1 12-21-2009, 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tanner

Here is a link to the NPDs for 2008 for the top PC games sold in North American Region:

http://pc.ign.com/articles/945/945328p1.html

Here's the list:

1. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack
2. Spore
3. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest
4. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
5. Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning
6. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
7. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
8. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Exp Pk Collector's Ed
9. Fallout 3
10. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
11. Call Of Duty: World At War
12. The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack
13. World Of Warcraft
14. Sins Of A Solar Empire
15. Warcraft III Battle Chest
16. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Expansion Pack
17. Crysis
18. Left 4 Dead
19. Diablo Battle Chest
20. The Orange Box

Do you see a flight sim on that list, or even a game with a plane in it? There are MMOs, RPGs, shooters. That's the games market. That's the PC games market in specific.

SOW:BOB occupies the tiniest of genres out there that absolutely no one cares about. That is why the only flight sims being made are now coming out of Russia and why Microsoft killed Flight Simulator and the studio that produced it.

Wake up, folks. You are in the smallest of minorities. No one has heard of this game. No one will ever hear of this game, but a very select few in the PC gaming market. SOW:BOB is being anticipated by no one. The sooner you can come to terms with that, the better.

gamespot.com for example lists IL-2 as THE top combat flightsim of all times...everybody intrested in planes knows IL-2

http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?t...c&official=all

Its safe to assume that this generates some interest in Sow:BoB too...

Skarphol · #2 12-21-2009, 09:48 AM

When it comes to what money can do for a flightsim, I think the biggest impact has to be on marketing.
One should think that Microsoft had enough financial resources to create the best WWII flightsim ever, especially considering their experienced staff with a lot of flightsims behind them. But they didn't, and IL-2 is still considered to be the best WWII-sim.
If you walk into a gaming store, the IL-2 titles are almost not promoted, and allways in the bargain-bin. Not very surprising for a game this old, perhaps, but nevertheless strange, considering it's strong position within the combat flightsim community. But that community is, as it has been pointed out, quite small. And big companies like MS is probably not able to make money on it. A small company like Maddox Games are more likely to be able to earn a profit. And create a new benchmark simulator in the process.

Skarphol

Flanker35M · #3 12-21-2009, 12:33 PM

S!

Voted. SOW was on 3rd place..

AdMan · #4 12-22-2009, 12:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tanner

Here is a link to the NPDs for 2008 for the top PC games sold in North American Region:

http://pc.ign.com/articles/945/945328p1.html

Here's the list:

1. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack
2. Spore
3. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest
4. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
5. Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning
6. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
7. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
8. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Exp Pk Collector's Ed
9. Fallout 3
10. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
11. Call Of Duty: World At War
12. The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack
13. World Of Warcraft
14. Sins Of A Solar Empire
15. Warcraft III Battle Chest
16. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Expansion Pack
17. Crysis
18. Left 4 Dead
19. Diablo Battle Chest
20. The Orange Box

Do you see a flight sim on that list, or even a game with a plane in it? There are MMOs, RPGs, shooters. That's the games market. That's the PC games market in specific.

SOW:BOB occupies the tiniest of genres out there that absolutely no one cares about. That is why the only flight sims being made are now coming out of Russia and why Microsoft killed Flight Simulator and the studio that produced it.

Wake up, folks. You are in the smallest of minorities. No one has heard of this game. No one will ever hear of this game, but a very select few in the PC gaming market. SOW:BOB is being anticipated by no one. The sooner you can come to terms with that, the better.

wow dood, you should calm down about 1000%, you act like a flight sim fucked your wife