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Originally Posted by SEE
Madfish, whatever your opinion regards discussing alternative titles, the OP has abided by the rules set out in the 'sticky'. I am sure that if there were any problems with his post it would have been deleted.
It appears that there aren't!
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I'm impressed. Didn't take long until the next guy comes, twisting my words and tries to provoke I guess?
I am not, especially in my last post, saying this thread is violating any forum rules. Since you posted since my first posts, where I indicated it might be odd to discuss a direct competitor here, then I wonder why you bring this up now, pretending I want this thread to be deleted?
The thing I pointed out was that apparently some people can't keep their calm without calling names and starting personal attacks. I have no problems discussing some points but instead of doing so names get thrown around.
The thing is that times have changed and while, and I even admitted that naturally there are examples of people that "switched" from arcade to real sim titles, this is not what the big numbers are about. Those few people are not what's feeding a development company over the years either.
The problem with market cannibalism can be seen looking at the MMO genre. Do you know how many MMO's wen't "free to play" just because they couldn't get a foot into the door since World of Warcraft? It's in the dozens.
But whatever, I'll just try avoid that topic and if it makes you, robo and addman happy I'll gladly let myself be called a childish, narrow minded, ignorant, scared mob and fanboy for the sake of mentioning that it's eventually bad taste to discuss this here, knowing how much of a threat that game
could prove to be.
But of course we all know that things in real life always turn out perfectly and that no product or title ever caused even almost unrelated products to be in deep trouble. See iPhone, World of Warcraft and many others... Yep.
Irony aside I only want to bring to the table that you cannot simply say it will help CloD. Eventually this could happen - eventually it'll turn out to be that threatening to the financial potential of CloD that we will not see any / many expansions at all. Just because they wouldn't sell in large numbers - maybe, maybe not.
The thing is that I belive only a minority has the equipment at home to play CloD well. E.g. for CEM, head tracking and more. It'd certainly help the title to prepare for the worst, being that WoP will prove to be a nemesis and making it necessary to provide a better tutorial, being more open to the casual players with a nice story campaign, even if it's fictional, and a great multiplayer interface even if the hyperlobby community is very established. Basically getting rid of a few (unecessary as I believe) weaknesses.
[EDIT]Oh and by the way; this includes the community! For example the trend to go full realism all the time. In theory CloD could be as arcade as any other sim out there if you turn off/on all the options necessary. But the problem with that is that it's not as refined for arcade and that the community is VERY very very unforgiving. The idea of arcade or a balanced gameplay even if that means sacrificing a little bit of authenticity is very unaccepted. I remember a lot of occasions where this happened[/EDIT]
That said I'm not sure what causes all this name calling and (mis)judging of people. I wonder if you guys would act like that just sitting together at a table or a bar.
