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Originally Posted by Skyhigh
Which casual player is ever going to do a subsim...
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Just look at all the Youtube videos. In addition to Jive (who's seen a explosive growth in subscriptions) There are a lot of other channels that normally does not cover serious military sims (some do have a military theme). They're getting hundred thousands of views (Jingles latest CW vid have gotten 50K view in 12 hours). Cold Waters is getting playthroughs from channels that covers a wide range of games from racing sims, RPG, Sci Fi and even trucking sims and while we would laugh at some of the gameplay decision, they seems to be having a lot of fun and the word is spreading.
Youtube and games like Cold Waters may actually bring in a lot of new players with just a casual interest in military sims but was afraid of the complexity of some of the more in depth ones (or the I don't want to read a manual crowd). A couple of tutorial video on youtube and anyone without any modern naval knowledge can jump into this game and actually start having some fun in the single missions.
In a way, the 84 missions are easier to get started than any of the SH game series as with a MK48, you have a good chance that just a point and shoot will give you a decent chance of a hit (well it has a good chance to come back at you too but let's not worry about that for now). That make it fun enough for some of them to dig deeper (watch more video).