this is how they should do Silent Hunter

[JU_88]

if an expansion came out for SH2 in 2010, do you think many will buy it?

Steel Beasts is a 10 year old game, ALOT has changed since then. Back in 2000 your average games retailer had several shelves of asorted simulators for the PC, now you are lucky to find one with several shelves of PC games period.

Fact is, sims are not as popular as they once were, look at the success of the Wii - casual and retro style games seem to be all the rage. While 360 and PS3 can compete with the average PC in terms of eye candy.
In General, the PC seems to have lost its edge over the consoles as the games platform of choice, throw in spiraling hardware requirments & costs/ bugs/ patches/ piracy/ DRM into the mix and its not really hard to see why.

[FIREWALL]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Steel Beasts is a 10 year old game, ALOT has changed since then.
Back in 2000 your average games retailer had several shelves of asorted simulators for the PC, now you are lucky to find one with several shelves of PC games period.

Fact is, sims are not as popular as they once were, look at the success of the Wii - casual and retro style games seem to be all the rage. PCs have lost their edge over the consoles as the games platform of choice, throw in spiraling hardware requirments & costs/ bugs/ patches/ piracy/ DRM into the mix and its not really hard to see why.

JU88 Best I've heard it explained in a long time.
Easy for even the slow to understand.