armchairGman
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5 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
Having once worked for a billion dollar publisher back when that was a rarity, I can say first hand that you definitely have a much better sense of how the world works than Jammersix does. CM customers get more play per Dollar spent than the vast majority of games out there.
Yup. We have people who say they would pay $100 and we also have people who say they shouldn't have to spend $10 for an Upgrade ("it's a patch and it should be free"). We are very sure that catering to either extreme is likely going to come as a net cost to us. Though having said that, we will have to increase our pricing soon just to keep up with inflation.
Based on a US CPI calculator, $55 in 1999 (when we started selling) is now about $79.70 in today's money. We can definitely feel the pinch so we will raise our pricing at some point in the near future. We'll probably ask customers to meet us halfway and pony up $65 for the base game and keep the pricing for everything else the same.
By far the vast majority of our customers are exactly like you. Which is why we stay in this business
Because if more than just a handful of people were like Jammersix we'd exit this market and do something else which more profitable. Thankfully for everybody, including Jammersix, we are sticking with wargaming.
Steve
No worries, I'll tell the spouse you started at $80 and I hammered you down to $65
. She'll go for it.
Ok signing off now.
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17 minutes ago, sburke said:
This is far too adult a post. Sorry you need a decent rant somewhere in there
. As to bugs absolutely you can post. It can only help, BF has no fear of bug reports, it is after all software. As to how it gets treated and analyzed would remain to be seen based on the nature of the bug, but is totally acceptable, expected and desired to be reported on the forum.
Ha, noted for next time.
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6 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
Plus, if you want us to hire a PR flak... sure. New price of all CM games is $75 so we can cover the costs of a new hire. We'll get our Human Resources department right on that. Oh wait, we don't have one of those either. OK, cost of all new CM games from now on is $95. Any other hires you want us to take on while we're adjusting our business model to suit your needs?
Steve
Umm, I'm new around here and only recently discovered this wonderful series. Instead of pissing the guys off that build these products maybe we should be a little more diplomatic about any frustrations we as consumers have. While we do pay real money for the games/simulations, I've been very impressed with the overall quality of what we get with those dollars/euros etc. I'm running into a bug myself but it doesn't need brought up on this forum. I work in marketing and it's been my experience that being a big firm typically just means you're capable of making a bigger FUBAR (think SimCity5).
On top of that, my guess is most of us use these games as hobbies/relaxation. I doubt hiring a PR consultant would be very beneficial (we're over paid
). I would have a hard time justifying spending 100 bucks on a video game (or more precisely justifying to my wife). My first reaction is the best form of advertising for CM is word of mouth on other forums and posts of this niche market.
Just my un-asked for 2cents.
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I'm building a new scenario from scratch after I installed the update this morning. I'm using the Chernova Hirka Mastermap v1.btt that came with my install of CMBS. in the last 4 hours I've had 3 crash to desktop events. I'm not running any mods and this is a brand new install of CMBS. I never had a signal CTD with v1.3 CMBS or CMFB. I am running a new motherboard (hence the clean reinstall). I'm not 100% sure v1.4 is the culprit. The CTD happens when I load 3D view in the editor. The load screen gets to about 30% and crashes about 1 in 20 times. Other hardware I upgraded was CPU to a i5 6600k oc'd to 4.1 stable after multiple stress tests with heavy duty cooling system, upgraded to 16gb of ram at stock freq. Most everything else was reused. Sorry to data dump here, just trying to nail down what the issue might be. Rebuild is about a week old, no other programs have run into issues (yet
). I've been playing CM titles a bunch since my hardware upgrade.
Has anyone else experienced new CTD events after the update?
PS Forgot to mention I upgraded from Win7 to Win10. I believe it's supposed to be compatible without me having to fool around with the settings.
BTW this is my first post on the forums.
Battlefront, you guys are awesome and in my opinion don't get enough press and praise for the products you produce. I've been into serious warsims for a few years now, and I just stumbled across your company a few months ago.
Thanks again!
Because if more than just a handful of people were like Jammersix we'd exit this market and do something else which more profitable. Thankfully for everybody, including Jammersix, we are sticking with wargaming.
. She'll go for it.
). I've been playing CM titles a bunch since my hardware upgrade.
New engine.
in Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg
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This was posted in the CMBS forum. I believe the CMx2 v4 will be rolled out across most titles over time. Other post from Steve seem to give the impression that all future modules/upgrades will be on the CMx2 v4 standard.