https://strategyandwargaming.com/2024/09/26/what-happened-at-home-of-wargamers-2024/
Flashpoint: Cold War - "a new baseline" for the series. Damn, I thought I've heard this already with Southern Storm. According to Erik Rutins, owners of the Southern Storm will be able to "easy and inexpensively" upgrade to Cold War. Well, call me not fully convinced.
No different than gas stations rebranding under new management I guess. If you liked Flashpoint games I suppose it is good news but a company can only go so far before they blow up their own reputation. These games has a limited following, it not like they are going to pull in a whole new crowd, so they pretty much either cater to their current player base or they won't sell the game period
Quote from: rss334 on October 01, 2024, 08:17:23 AMNo different than gas stations rebranding under new management I guess. If you liked Flashpoint games I suppose it is good news but a company can only go so far before they blow up their own reputation. These games has a limited following, it not like they are going to pull in a whole new crowd, so they pretty much either cater to their current player base or they won't sell the game period
As you said, games like Flashpoint are a niche market. Given the time and expense in developing these games, they have to do stuff like this, if games of this quality are to be produced and maintained. The only alternative is to do what Command Modern Operations does: Make a government version, and use the some of the funds and development related to it to maintain the commercial version.
I keep waiting for a WW2 version.
Quote from: solops on October 01, 2024, 12:35:30 PMI keep waiting for a WW2 version.
Command Ops is basically this.
Quote from: CaptainKoloth on October 01, 2024, 01:54:42 PMQuote from: solops on October 01, 2024, 12:35:30 PMI keep waiting for a WW2 version.
Command Ops is basically this.
Or vice versa -- that engine has been around longer than some of the people who work for me. (But I don't really have a comparison, as I haven't used the Flashpoint engine at all.)
(Also my age, it burrrrrnnnsss!)
And WEGO is a BIG deal to me.
Great