Over the last six months, the demise of The Sims has been pronounced in abundance. Print mags and webzines SIM have been telling you sims are void left and right Jane's A-10: Canceled. Wolfpack II: Canceled. Silent Steel II: MIA. M1Tank Platoon 3: Canceled. Fighting Steel Deluxe: Canceled. Jane's Attack Squadron: MIA. Thunder Over Europe: MIA. The list goes on.
We all know that this is a down cycle for the Sims and we believe that We can hope that in a few years, things will turn around and Sims will be hot stuff again. Hey, I remember in 1973 when the EPA and OPEC strangling life outside of the muscle car scene. I had a 1970 Cobra Torino that had 450 hp and ran the quarter in the upper 13s. In less than three years, every car from Detroit was a smog controlled, gas saving slug. They even started to make them as ugly as they were slow! It was heartbreaking.
But over time, things change. Now you can get a high performance machine that handles and has luxuries like front / rear AC. My '99 Riviera has a supercharged V-6 that would make my old Torino proud.
Then, keep the faith. Things will improve, even if nobody knows when. Silent Hunter II and Destroyer Command are showing signs of life. Harpoon 4 is still in development. There is turmoil in the camp Sonalysts.
When a new subsim not reach shore, try to remember, creators and producers of games are our friends. They are the kind of game that we love because they love them too. Why would they work Armor tables in thickness, the physical model boat, and torpedo trajectories for a niche market? I know a few developers and like all genres.
Try to keep your criticism balanced. Should you blow a SIM card you have problems or do not benefit all the invective and animosity you would normally reserve for someone who stole your car or used your toothbrush? We I was told by producers that high level executives frequently ask him about hard-core negative Postings on newsgroups and forums. The industry we considered as demanding, ungrateful, and impossible to satisfy. It is much easier and more lucrative to crank Deer Hunter and Barbie games and their users rarely flame the game company to a crisp.
I work with an accountant CPA who loves computer games and them is pretty good. It can play a mean age of Empires warrior. I tried to interest him in learning Jane's 688 (I) some multiplay. He took one look at the full manual and waved it off. He assumed he would need to learn all subjects to play competition. The blessing and the curse of a good SIM card is its complexity. You want to order a fleet of combat or do TMA on a submarine Class Los Angeles? You need to acquire skills and study. This restricts the popularity of the SIM card. Games mass market generally do not bear the steep learning curve of a SIM card is. So even if we hard core sim players are delight in the minutiae of seven different stations and all their controls, casual gamers are going through the SIM card to a ratio of 20 to 1. Sims truly are a niche market.
Gaming market niche have limited teams are full movement and other fun stuff. But as one producer said, "We have no money to design and integrate these elements into the product. I wish we could too.
We should be finding the status of Silent Hunter II soon. Either Mattel Interactive is going to sign someone to complete it or it will be canned. I went through the "we intend to do this" stage with Ice pack legendary Jane's add-on for 688 (I), Crusader Studios Akula: Red Hunter, Silent Steel 2, and interoperability between the command of the fleet Jane and 688 (I). I'm not judging here, I just described that when the momentum dies, so does the target. For some reason, the champions of the product behind the Sims were unable to obtain funding to start work. To get a better idea of the whole process, read analysis of my friend John Sponauer of life and death of a SIM, M1 Tank Platoon 2, from his early development as an upgrade all the way through its last two weeks.
Despite my previous experiences with other sim companies, I am optimistic that Carl Norman and Rick Martinez believe what they say and SSI will continue to raise the banner of the series of digital combat while Jane's, NovaLogic, Microprose and around them fall like unfortunate tin soldiers. This does not mean SH2 is a done deal – that moment will come when you hold the box in your hand. We expect the next subsim rumor as our best hope for undersea warfare advanced. All we can do is stay positive, supportive, and if it's decent buy four copies when it comes out.
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