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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
No, you cannot blame Sonalysts, they made four outstanding modern naval sims. They did not sell enough copies to warrant further game development. That's our fault as customers.
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Yes and no. Yes the game was a commercial failure but not because of us who bought it but because the "brainwashed masses" just didn't get it.
Which brings me to the second point, when you're going to sell something to someone make sure you give him what he wants (at least in part). Bringing a game with a 10 years old graphics engine was not a good decision. Say what you want, but the first thing to hook people to games is "eye candy".
Once you have them on the hook, you can go on saying how realisitic the simulator is etc, etc, etc... but until that point you have got to do everything in your power to excite new players.