Should 1C/UBI make Steam optional?

[Kikuchiyo]

Originally Posted by Thee_oddball

but why would steam people care whether it is optional? how would it affect them? they can still buy it through steam install it through steam join servers through steam....a non steam version would have no affect on a steam version...as with the case of Arma II that some one else pointed out .

A game has to use Steamworks for a STEAM user to join a server with it. I've never in all my days seen a MP platform that makes finding and joining a server easier than the Steamworks platform.

Originally Posted by Thee_oddball

and add the fact that the top 100 games (2 million players )being played right now on steam there is not 1 ww 2 flight sim in the group.

I know for a fact that there is at least 1 as I part of it.

The no metacrictic score is not the same as a 0 metacritic score. I never claimed that flight sims were popular. I said that it being available on STEAM gives it a wider audience. I am sure flight sims in general don't have near the audience of fpses. I also think that the reemergence of flight sims is coming. It was a genre that died off, but we have seen a number of recent flight sims do well, and not just with old die hard simmers either. My group as recruited, trained, and helped several new people (mind you there are only about 20 of us) discover the genre. I personally have brought a few people in myself to the genre. You haven't invalidated my arguments.