SgtHatred

I prefer this one.
 

Any day now!

Just out of curiosity, what do you do that you are constantly mucking with your PC? I have rebuilt mine, then upgraded to win 8' then moved to a bigger SSD over the past year and I have yet to have to ask for an activation. Perhaps you should just keep a PC for the game that you don't screw with so often. Maybe not the best answer, but if you KNOW you have little time for the game, it seems your own habits are infringing on your play time.

It was all a misunderstanding. When Obama picked up the phone and ordered an abominable war-crime, his aides assumed he meant nuclear strike. Of course, he really meant to order a Dominos "pizza".

It was all a misunderstanding. When Obama picked up the phone and ordered an abominable war-crime, his aides assumed he meant nuclear strike. Of course, he really meant to order a Dominos "pizza".

It was all a misunderstanding. When Obama picked up the phone and ordered an abominable war-crime, his aides assumed he meant nuclear strike. Of course, he really meant to order a Dominos "pizza".

Wow. I've done a few laps around the Internet in my day, but this may well be the most insulting backhanded comment I've ever seen someone make. That's harsh.

Wow. I've done a few laps around the Internet in my day, but this may well be the most insulting backhanded comment I've ever seen someone make. That's harsh.

lol, so you feel that if this thread didn't exist, he would roll in here and spill the beans on future projects? seriously?
 
   
It's anecdotal evidence and not really worth addressing. Of the ~10 people I play strategy games with, 8 of them became Combat Mission players with the introduction of WEGO multiplayer, but I'm not going to claim that 80% of people exposed to it would play it, because that would be insane. 

Hey man, having a toxic, hard to find community is one of the fastest ways to grow it.
 
BFC has been in business for more than 10 years, and they know the secret of staying in business : never adapt to change.

This isn't weird at all to someone living in Poland or the Baltics who would like some help keeping a certain large, pesky neighbour off their lawn.

Trust someone like Valve who makes their business handling these kinds of transactions over the BFC store page which is the internet equivalent of a burnt out gas station?
 
Convenience? I have too many bloody accounts on the internet as it is, just counting games, not personal or professional. I don't want any more.
 
Value doesn't necessarily mean price. Being able to reinstall the game without begging for another activation being one that jumps out at me immediately.

Like comparing Steam to an HMO or a Subway. Also now apparently interest in it is a secret conspiracy by Valve to destroy Battlefront (thanks Desertor!) Congrats on your Intro to Philosophy course by the way.
 
Bottom line : I think you people are crazy if you think that Combat Mission, a real time tactical strategy game can't compete with Paradox's 4 different grand strategy games, Eagle Dynamics study sims, Slitherline's hex wargames, or whoever was crazy enough to make Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations / Spreadsheet Simulator and ask $90 for it. Complex niche titles aren't as unique or unpopular as you guys seem to think. Not everyone is content with Call of Duty...

lol, so you feel that if this thread didn't exist, he would roll in here and spill the beans on future projects? seriously?
 
   
It's anecdotal evidence and not really worth addressing. Of the ~10 people I play strategy games with, 8 of them became Combat Mission players with the introduction of WEGO multiplayer, but I'm not going to claim that 80% of people exposed to it would play it, because that would be insane. 

Like comparing Steam to an HMO or a Subway. Also now apparently interest in it is a secret conspiracy by Valve to destroy Battlefront (thanks Desertor!) Congrats on your Intro to Philosophy course by the way.
 
Bottom line : I think you people are crazy if you think that Combat Mission, a real time tactical strategy game can't compete with Paradox's 4 different grand strategy games, Eagle Dynamics study sims, Slitherline's hex wargames, or whoever was crazy enough to make Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations / Spreadsheet Simulator and ask $90 for it. Complex niche titles aren't as unique or unpopular as you guys seem to think. Not everyone is content with Call of Duty...

Well, you also seem pretty desperate for acknowledgement from certain individuals.
 
It's terrifying how similar grognards and hipsters are. We are not mainstream. We are special.

Mord,
 
The Wargame series - that is how focus interactive became successful.
 
I dont work for focus, but im sure if someone from BFC asked the lads over there they could supply some figures or facts or whatever.
 
Also - most importantly - alot of us dont realise that BFC already have games onsale on steam - the theatre of war series is available there.
 
Im not bothered about buying CM series on steam. I just want to see more players - it would help the community, and would hopefully prompt BFC to invest in a proper lobbying and MP system.

Snarky comments can still contribute to something productive in a discussion (it's a valid way of doing an argument and some people only know how to argue in that manner, so you need to excuse them). On the other hand, trying to shut down a discussion (for everyone) is counter productive.
 
To clarify, with the rude comments remark I made to your reply, I really meant other people who went a bit overboard, not you.
 
 
   
It's not just that, though. People can have different kind of goals. For example, they might be trying to change not the opinion of the person they are arguing with, but instead, trying to change the opinion of an outsider (somebody who is listening), like other people on this forum who are reading this discussion or the developers, which then can lead to a variety of different things happening.

I would just up vote Steve's comment but my quota is all used up upvoting his other comments (that's a joke BTW). This is pretty much how I see things developing *every* time this topic comes up.

I don't think I have ever seen BFC just say "no". They point out that right now the work needed and the cons that they see are not wroth it. Both of those things can change - stay tuned you never know. I guess there are a handful of people who say they don't want steam here but that is a really small number. There are a few of us just pointing out the results from previous threads and a bunch of people who just keep repeating

"What do we want? STEAM When do we want it NOW".

Sorry there is no real value in that and insulting those of us who point that out creats even less value. Negative value in fact. I would down vote more of those comments but I my down vote quota has been exceeded for today, on this thread, again for the second day in a row.