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05-04-2012, 04:27 PM
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Most of these games on the stat page are expected to be played more than a sim. Also there's no other real sim on there. Not even casual titles like HAWX, none of the DCS games, no Take on Helicopters, not even Wings of Prey... nothing.
Personally I believe a well written and emotional campaign would be the best selling point. Scripted, voiced over, maybe even having a few nice cutscenes. I'd enjoy that and it's what most fan projects fail at. I wouldn't even mind if it was in native language (e.g. Russian / German with subtitles for the Moscow theatre). But that's another topic 
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05-04-2012, 04:35 PM
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Exactly, we need a campaign to get the newbies into the game. Just some quick missions and kludgy missions combined to a 6 mission long campaign dont bind people to the game.
Like the Deasastersoft campaigns as a stock campaign. Lovely missions with historical accuracy to make the player part of the events. I by far prefer an accurate scripted campaign rathzer than a dynamic one which missions are one like the other.
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05-04-2012, 05:09 PM
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I'm surprised that Cliffs showed up in the Steam top 100 at all.
Do you have any idea how small our niche (combat flight simulation) actually is?
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05-04-2012, 05:22 PM
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Over a thousand are playing Railworks... go figure.
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05-04-2012, 06:14 PM
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@ sid, there you go mate:
 ArmA II & Arrowhead are sims and on steam but that is a smallish niche but with a huge community. I think if you take Clod alone then its a small niche but if you take the entrie flight sim genre then that isnt so small by any means.
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05-04-2012, 07:29 PM
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I wouldn't call ArmA a sim though. It's an FPS and thus attracts a lot of people "by nature".
Steam shows a sad truth about the real numbers of an extremely small but also very picky niche. Weak sales but very high expectations. An explosive mixture.
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05-04-2012, 09:31 PM
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Same here 
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05-04-2012, 09:43 PM
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So are you guys saying you are just now realising that flight sims are a niche market?
That is to say flight sims are the red headed step child of games?  Welcome to 1998!
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