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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
That is a terrible comparison. Even the most meagre of first-person shooters or flight simulators will outsell the greatest of submarine simulations. Respect and effort have nothing to do with it.
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
Agreed. Subject plays a large part in sales.
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True, but the man still has a point. Any good simulation/game should never alienate its roots or core fan base,
especially if it's very small and very loyal. IL2 never did that, neither did the highly unstable ARMA, both with outdated graphics. That alone would usually hamper sales in their large fanbase. It didn't, because the old gameplay is still there, and things were added instead of fan favorites taken out.
It doesn't really have much to do with sales and or a small/huge fanbase. It's happens primarily when a publisher pushes the dev team of a small title, that unfortunately happens to be under an umbrella that doesn't need them to fair well. It does that with its big titles, hence they get more time, money and corporate patience. I'm sure the devs would have liked to give us the ultimate reincarnation of SH3, so I can't really blame them, I blame UBI for that.
And DRM ofcourse.