Adhesive86
Warlord
For me, they desperately need to move away from the superficial Civ Rev style approach (others can probably articulate that better, but you know what I mean).
Apart from the fact that I personally don't like it, the economics sucks.
Here we have one of the largest and most ardent fanbases of any game. I, like many others, would have paid 5x what I did for Civ 4 for quality DLC content additions and this would provide a massive revenue stream from core gamers. MY investment would probably work out really really cheap - since I have no problem spending £50 on a night out, this seems personally reasonable to spend the same amount on content which i can play regularly.
Instead, we have a series which was already towards the top of the popular charts attempt to be dumbed down in a 'populist' move which likely didn't really get too many more sales and also turned off the existing fanbase from paying for lots of additional content.
Firaxis/2k, if you are listening... get that deep playing feeling, 1 more turn feeling back, and you'll find that this is a better way to drive your revenues. £5, 5Euro, $7 or whatever is not alot of money to pay out many times over for content which is provided for a deep game that we love to play. However, 'casual' gamers do not want to pay for this stuff. And hardcore gamers refuse out of principle when the game is dumbed down.
I read somewhere that WoW gets most of its revenues from the 10% most harcore gamers. Whilst we'd obviously all prefer things to be free, most of us would happily pay more for a quality, deep 'hardcore' game, than have to put up with Civ Rev/dumb/whatever. This still works out as a cheap hobby... my girlfriend cost me over £100 on drinking, eating, going out last night. I could have every civ invented DLC for that, forever
Apart from the fact that I personally don't like it, the economics sucks.
Here we have one of the largest and most ardent fanbases of any game. I, like many others, would have paid 5x what I did for Civ 4 for quality DLC content additions and this would provide a massive revenue stream from core gamers. MY investment would probably work out really really cheap - since I have no problem spending £50 on a night out, this seems personally reasonable to spend the same amount on content which i can play regularly.
Instead, we have a series which was already towards the top of the popular charts attempt to be dumbed down in a 'populist' move which likely didn't really get too many more sales and also turned off the existing fanbase from paying for lots of additional content.
Firaxis/2k, if you are listening... get that deep playing feeling, 1 more turn feeling back, and you'll find that this is a better way to drive your revenues. £5, 5Euro, $7 or whatever is not alot of money to pay out many times over for content which is provided for a deep game that we love to play. However, 'casual' gamers do not want to pay for this stuff. And hardcore gamers refuse out of principle when the game is dumbed down.
I read somewhere that WoW gets most of its revenues from the 10% most harcore gamers. Whilst we'd obviously all prefer things to be free, most of us would happily pay more for a quality, deep 'hardcore' game, than have to put up with Civ Rev/dumb/whatever. This still works out as a cheap hobby... my girlfriend cost me over £100 on drinking, eating, going out last night. I could have every civ invented DLC for that, forever