[Skybird]

Originally Posted by 3Star

What the others said. It's a MilSpec sim, and is deliberately priced to make the casual gamer think twice about spending the money to buy it. Otherwise, it will be compared with other, run-of-the-mill games, and will then be slated for having moderate graphics, no campaign, and so on. Which are the last two things that the military are interested in. Thus, Esim decided that they would rather discourage such people from buying it, than to sell them to all and sundry, only to have people find out it wasn't what they thought it would be.

SB1 was the best play-hours-per-dollar I've ever bought. SBP/PE probably would come in pretty close. Basically, it's a niche piece of software. If you're looking for a traditional game, wait a year or two for SB2 to come out.

NTM

The price was not calculated to scare gamers away. It simply is the minimum price at which they could do such a limited release. Noone ever exopected a mass-succeess. To use their own words: "what we have is a dedicated sim for the military and professionals. All we do is this: we just do not stop civilians to buy it."