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Originally Posted by Sonarman
There is also a big opportunity for UBI if they do a Japanese localised version of SH4 or include Japanese playable vessels. - Japan's population is equivalent to 43% of the US population! and to my knowledge there has never been a true subsim released in the Japanese language which could equate to a huge number of sales.
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UBI has the opportunity of involving more than US and Japan in this sim, ie UK and the Netherlands. This could also be done by providing some (no more than 2) japanese and one UK subs (plus the capaigns) and keeping the rest (plus the Monsoon boats
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On topic, now: Although SH3 is the second best game I have ever seen (after the Civilization series) and the community is far more mature and enthusiastic, I do believe that SF played at least a minor role in the game's success, because it seems that delayed the emerging of a pirated version of the 1.4 update.
But this delaying whould not mean anything if the game did not have the durability that it presents. So many months have passed and we still see exciting mods and modpacks to appear. Probably, also the target group of this sim involves a lot of people above their 30s with kids and family, who do not change their games every week.
But my opinion might be biased and wrong, since I am very picky on which games I buy. It would be interesting to learn about other recent games' fates and how SF affected their success.