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Casual Gamer RTS Game?
May 18, 2003 07:07 PM
I was wondering the other day if there was such a thing as a real-time strategy game for casual gamers. Is it so small of a market that it''s not worth it, or do you think a budget publisher would take a chance on it?
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May 18, 2003 07:15 PM
But didn''t Age of Empires have the Microsoft''s muscle behind it? I didn''t think of it as a game that targetted the ''casual'' crowd
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May 18, 2003 07:25 PM
Starcraft. I was a casual Starcraft player forever. Finally became a non-casual player after a few years. It''s playable and winnable online even if you don''t play that often.
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May 18, 2003 07:35 PM
quote: Original post by falkone
But didn''t Age of Empires have the Microsoft''s muscle behind it? I didn''t think of it as a game that targetted the ''casual'' crowd
I think AoE went on to become one of the best-selling games of all time. I don''t think it could make that many sales just to hardcore gamers, although I may be wrong...
IIRC, its user-friendliness was one of its major selling points, and would have definitely made it more accessible to the casual gamer.
May 18, 2003 07:57 PM
Well, i guess my real question is... is there a big enough market for a publisher that focuses on casual gamers to publish a RTS game?
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May 19, 2003 10:12 AM
Ah, thank you, Ditto, that pretty much answered my question.
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May 19, 2003 03:44 PM
You may find this thread in interesting read as well. Dexterity seems to concure with the potential market of more strategic games for the "casual gamer". I put casual gamer in quotes, because they are actually pretty hard core gamers. Just hardcore about casual games. 
More Casual or More Hardcore
[edited by - Ironside on May 19, 2003 4:45:11 PM]
More Casual or More Hardcore
[edited by - Ironside on May 19, 2003 4:45:11 PM]
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