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snozzled (Golden Rainbow)
All worlds
03 Nov 2010 21:44Link
I'm back. I've spent the last 5 years or so in deep space (www.eveonline.com) and it seems that whilst simcountry has gained a few cool new features in the meanwhile it's substantially unchanged from what I remember. That's not really a surprise - Tamara knew the problem back in 2003:
"to implement [ extensive new features ] into the game would require the game be totally recoded and currently the player base is too small to justify the added expense W3 would have to fork out to pay for it."
Simcountry occupies a small market niche. It's got too much math and not enough graphics to appeal to the mass market. No 50m+ players[1] here, and we like it that way: thanks W3Creative. It does have some drawbacks though:
"The vast majority of W3's costs are in staff (developer) salaries. Without new features they can't attract a large number of new subscribers, but
"to implement [ extensive new features ] into the game would require the game be totally recoded and currently the player base is too small to justify the added expense W3 would have to fork out to pay for it."
Simcountry occupies a small market niche. It's got too much math and not enough graphics to appeal to the mass market. No 50m+ players[1] here, and we like it that way: thanks W3Creative. It does have some drawbacks though:
"The vast majority of W3's costs are in staff (developer) salaries. Without new features they can't attract a large number of new subscribers, but