Les_the_Sarge_9_1
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Well no game news is quite like the merger news
Wanted to comment, god how I wanted to comment. But I decided, no, wait till AFTER the official announcement.
Thought about making a new account, but decided, no, I don't need to hide, besides, it's time SOME people got over their many delusions. I was not run off, I DUMPED hanging out with THEM.
I've been reading the thoughts.
No, I don't think Matrix Games is doing Slitherine a 'favour'.
No, I don't think Matrix Games makes better games necessarily.
No, I don't think Ian is rolling in cash.
No, I don't think Slitherine makes dummied down wargames.
I DO think both companies will make each other stronger.
No, I don't think David or Ian needs to be 'the boss' over the other.
Honestly, reading some of the comments, I don't think anyone has thought over the whole merge all that collectively intelligently.
Wargaming is not big business.
We can call Matrix Games a powerhouse in wargaming, but let's not forget what wargaming is to the gaming industry. Walk into your local gaming store, and ask 'what do you think of the Matrix Games/Slitherine merger? I predict you won't find anyone that has ever heard of either sadly.
That's why the merger is a good idea. Because wargaming simply isn't what we need it to be.
There is strength in numbers, and collectively the entire wargaming community is still small compared to mainstream.
I buy from Matrix Games mainly because they know a happy customer comes back. I like digital download. I don't need a damned burned to disc copy hand made for me sent in a jacket I don't require in a case I don't need. It's 2010, and if you haven't learned how to burn a file to a disc, you are sadly lacking in skills.
I like that Matrix Games only requires I have a serial number to install the game. No hassle means repeat sales. Hassle equals I don't need your game that badly. I also know the truth of digital reality on the internet. Wasting time on fancy DRM means you are not bright enough to know how worthless it is. And I can't but wonder, does this lack of brains extend to anything else? I prefer to not support stupid companies as a rule.
In the last few years, ALL of my wargames for electronic means have been bought from either Matrix Games or Slitherine.
I buy from Slitherine, because they underdstand not all of us are interested in the same old thing.
No, a wargame does NOT have to be on a PC to be any good.
No, a game on a Nintendo DS is NOT automatically easy for being dummied down.
Of course, too many refuse to accept, that hand helds are not safe from lousy AI opponents either. Try saying Panzer Tactics is an easy game AFTER you beat an online human. Try claiming Commander Europe at War is too easy AFTER defeating a human playing it against you. Beating the AI means nothing just as it does on the PC.
No, a small screen on a hand held is NOT a game breaker. hey, I can assure you, your 22" wide screen monitor means squat. 5" or 22", it's all the same if the game is emulating a board game that on a table is measured in FEET.
I find playing Commander Europe at War equally as much scrolling on my PC as my DS. The game they are mimicing in a minor fashion, something like Advanced Third Reich, is best played as we all know on a table that will be close to 4'x6'.
PC is ok for what it does, hand helds are nice for what they do too.
I personally like being able to play a few turns anywhere I darned well like on my DS. And NO, a laptop is not automatically superior. Portable, but not an auto replacement. And I don't consider a 400+ dollar item an automatic winner over a 200 dollar item. Especially when the 200 dollar item can do most of the same things. Plus, I can take tourist photos with the DS (not that I expect to get in alot of travel).
I am actually OK with Matrix Games scoring 4-5 purchases off of me, for 5 games released as 5 separate purchases so that a game can be bite sized and fit in the smaller data storage items like the Nintendo DS. Yes, I just said I don't mind Matrix Games making 5 sales of 40-50 bucks. So all of you Matrix Games lovers, do you REALLY mean it? Do you REALLY support the company? Free comments mean nothing to me, speak with your wallet, because that's the only voice that counts eh. I don't require bargain bins, or games on sale to buy what I WANT. but I can't buy something that isn't on sale.
Ever wonder why stores never sell wargames? You wargamers don't buy them.
Want a hand held device to be a tool ALSO of adults? Then you need to demand the games be made for you. And if Steel Panthers could be chopped up into 5 pieces, and sold to me for the DS, I'd be there in a heart beat wanting it all 5 times.
I also want wargames, REAL wargames for my PS3. And if the fees mean I have to pay 3 times the price, then so be it. No, I do NOT care if the kids go WTF!! I'm not paying 120 bucks for some boring looking 2d wargame. Who cares, it's ME you are selling it to. Ignore the kids.
I've got a shelf here holding several THOUSAND dollars in massively expensive ASL board game. Price is not a barrier if I say I want it.
And you don't even NEED the retail shelf. I bought every last one of those recent wargames while sitting in front of a computer.
I'd much rather buy digital dowmload direct, or if needed, from someone like Chris of NWS.
Couldn't care less if the game store downtown ever hears of you. I don't need them.
I just want to be able to buy wargames that are good, yet still fun, and playable where 'I' want top play them. I don't think PC is king either.
I own War in the Pacific. Great game for detail. Great game for accuracy. Great game if dull tedious and time killing is important too. If fails hard on playable and fun. No I don't consider micro managing hell relaxing. I call Steel Horizion for the Nintendo DS 'fun'. But hey, I recognize some of us NEED that anal level of detail. Remember, I am a long time fan of ASL. Even you WitPers are not as bad as an ASLer :)
I don't think it will happen, but I can hope. In MY ideal result of the merger, Slitherine shows Matrix Games how to release modest versions of the Matrix Games catalogue to the hand held market, and assists with getting some PC titles onto the popular mainstream consoles even if by the hidden route of direct to the customer instead of the uninterested retail shelf method.
I'd rather play Panther Games and SSG's games on my PS3. Because 40" is better than 22" eh.
And I have noticed, my PS3 renders images better than my PC. And no, my PC isn't old schlock.
The wargamer interview though gives me hope
http://www.wargamer.com/article/2870/matrix-slitherine-merger
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