Introducing Wargame Design Studios

[BigDuke66]

Customers like me are the reason that JTS still exist, do you really thing these are games for wannabes?
If so, it proves that you still have no clue how these games really work.

It's a simple fact that WitE is less complex than WitP:AE was, just like DC Barbarossa is less complex compared to previous DC releases.
Now I wasn't talking about action, both are surely no bear & pretzel games like fancy real time strategy that blinds you with graphics & sounds, but they are simply on the easy side of wargames(at least for me), for god sake WitE doesn't even have a replay to watch the other sides turn and DC:B removed the control over the complete air force, just 2 points to prove their approach to make them easier to chew.

PB is a tactical game, so comparing the gameplay against WitE & DC:B is useless as those are operational games.
You have to judge them alone and I'm rather sure that WitE & DC:B got the way they are to get more customers. I don't know if that was done purposely to satisfy the Steam community but that doesn't matter, it just happened and the reasons behind it are now unimportant.
What stops one to follow that path if the customer base really gets "many millions more"(as if that would happen) who are used to easy games and that outnumber the Grognards many times?
Nothing, well nothing except me and others who care and are able to see the potential for problems behind the ringing of the cash register.

Besides that I'm wargaming since the early 90's, my knowledge in this field stands without any doubt as I was part of many beta tests for a lot of strategy games and scenario designers.
That is no elitist attitude, it is simply fact that today many people think they handle topics in easy games and by that are capable to handle them in any other form of game. The first hardcore strategy game easily shatters this illusion and brings them back on the ground.


You just see the potential for money that fuels development, I see the potential for a downfall of a series, a downfall suffered by so many other series in the field of computer games.
Steam isn't the savior of the computer games, get rid of this illusion.
I stand by what I said, think more than twice about steam!

You WANT your "hardcore grognard" games to stay as cumbersome and anti-modern (speaking of the UI for example) as possible, and sold only in the hidden corners of the internet where only "real" grognards meet. Thats silly !

Stop talking such crap, didn't I provided some post ago points for improvements on the UI? I did!
And that is cumbersome and anti-modern for you? Get you mind back online and don't lay any words I my mouth that I didn't say and that can not in the any way be deduced from my posts.

Besides that I wouldn't call JTS webshop a hidden corner. At least it doesn't force you a plug in your butt to let you run your games, that would be what I call cumbersome and anti-modern, you can cite my on that.