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Originally Posted by utops
This whole situation is not according only to subsims,but sim genre in general,
for me Red Baron is still very playable, so as Knights of The Sky by Microprose just because of details, newspapers with whats new on the front, randomness and nothig really was the same from mission to mission.
My Amiga, floppys B-17 FF,KoTS,RedBaron,Silent Service and I 18pm to 4 am
sweet times of the 90s.
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Utops, I don't know if you've heard of it but you should check out Over Flanders Fields. It's the closet thing I've found to that old-school style that exists today.
There is one primary point to make: Giant corporations like Ubi make decisions based on perceived business value, market research, profit-loss margins, etc. With the massive cost of developing games these days due to graphical complexity, any dev team that works under a corporate umbrella will never produce the type of games you guys are looking for. It doesn't make sense from a bean counter's perspective. Believe me, I work at just such a company.
Only small independent developers or studios can make decisions with artistic merit as the primary factor. For example, see the excellent mods made by the modders here, which are labors of love.
Everything else is just a business.