Der Oberst -> RE: Thoughts on TOAWIII vs HPS PzC/MC (7/15/2006 12:14:33 AM)
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ORIGINAL: cabron66 I often wonder what Panzer Campaigns, which benefits from a very loyal community as well, could have become if it had been open to the same kind of innovation. Cheers Paul If I have any complaint about PzC it's this one. Though with a little creativity it can be overcome somewhat. It's locked down a bit because of the marketing model imho. If I'm going to continue to sell you battles then I can't open up the game to full modification. I've always held the opinion the wargames that sell the most are the ones that can most easily and completely be modified by the gaming community. Steel Panthers, TOAW, Campaign Series, heck even Combat Mission sold extremely well, and have enjoyed long lives due primarily, I believe, to providing an open modification environment to the community. When you have open systems with full OOB editors, mapeditors, full graphics editing 3D and otherwise I'm concerned about the longevity of certain games that have relatively closed systems **cough ** HTTR **cough although I like their play and actually have bought them. Developers would do well to consider this when designing a game and a marketing model.
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