Is CM dying?

[DB_Zero]

When CM was first released the dot-com centered around the PC, web and other PC related equipment was in full swing. The 90's was the golden years for PCs and PC based games. You had Spectrum Holobyte, Microprose and a number of other games companies that were doing well.

PC companies were making and selling lots of PCs.

If you were young and ambitious you went into the PC centered tech industry. I was at ground zero for all of this.

That has changed. The generation that was a part of that has grown older and the newer younger generation is more about the social media, mobile phone and app world. To them PCs are quaint reminders of a "older generation". No matter how good or up to date my tech skills are I would never be hired by most if not all of the new dot-com version 2 companies. Too old in their eyes. So I have found a home in a different industry using cutting edge technology-but not in the Silicon Valley area.

Like my time and generation most of these new dot-com 2 companies will eventually die and only a few will survive and the young generation who's skills and talent are so sought out will find themselves out of work and out of vogue.

The financial industry and VC's who dump millions into these companies will suddenly stop doing so. They know that if they pump 100 million into 10 companies only a few will eventually be viable and the rest will die.

It's called the "creative destruction" process and its the way of Silicon Valley and its been that way since the microchip was first developed.

Once thriving PC game makers who were so hot in the 90s are nothing but memories. Janes, Microprose, Spectrum Holobyte all gone.

BF and CM has to survive in that reality. Its a PC based simulator in a world where the ADD, instant gratification, entitlement younger generation believe that the PC is something their parents used and really isn't cool. The iPhone or Android and the apps that run on it is whats cool.

You're barking up the wrong tree if you think you can get the entire younger generation into a PC based simulation that requires deep thought and doesn't provide instant gratification. Not all younger people are like this as I play against many younger player who are very good and enjoy this, but it will never be like 1999.