MapMod for First World War Campaigns

[Volcano Man]

...Sadly, the best looking naval simulator ever is the worst wargame simulation of the series and signals the end of the development cycle due to the piss-poor sales the poor game play has caused.

Interesting stuff. Being myself deeply involved in the sim community (professionally) since the late 90s, there was a death of all things simulated because at the time the design philosophy was to concentrate completely on visuals and nothing on substance. This in turn began a cycle of death where the sales tanked because of poor reviews about buggy and bad gameplay (but they sure were good looking games!) and the publishers / developers decided amongst themselves that the whole sim genre was dead, and so it was. I remember this intimately because this is how the company I work for got started -- they took the opposite approach to concentrate on substance first and graphics last and in many ways this is what has caused it to be successful by being adopted by a mature, loyal and small community and going from there. This all sounds familiar.

Anyway, I thought the simulation genre had learned from its past mistakes during the dark days of the late 90s, but it seems that history is repeating itself. Hopefully the SH series isn't totally dead and that they can learn from their mistakes before the pull the plug on it prematurely.