Tankist Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 A long time has passed since I last gave signals. Sometimes it is hard to be right. Steve always said, that he has no interest in the old customer base, the hateful grognards. Honestly, he never liked us, and he thinks that we are a nuisance like fleas or rats. I asked a marketing managing director, and he told me, that Steves approach is "questionable". Never, ever, attack your customers, he told me. So, we had Combat Mission, a winning concept, a shining jewel in the niche market of wargaming. Obviously it sold well enough, that guys like Steve went nuts...attacking long time customers, while aiming for RTS juvenile freaks. If you get money for doing a WW2 game, you should foster it. If WEGO is the newest hype, you schould NOT go RTS. Quote from Steve Grammont, ca. 1996:"CM will NEVER go RTS!" He is not, obviously, true. I tried the demo...horrible. Charles gave us "Over the Reich", "Achtung Spitfire", and "Flight Commander 2" (besides CM). All turn based, and all got a 9 or 10 out of 10. Why, o why, pleasing the mass market? The first thing is to get rid of your pr manager Steve "I hate all grogs" Grammont. This spells the difference between success or failure. Let him try EA or Hasbro... Tankist [ November 07, 2007, 03:52 PM: Message edited by: Tankist ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince of Eckmühl Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Originally posted by Tankist: A long time has passed since I last gave signals. Sometimes it is hard to be right. Steve always said, that he has no interest in the old customer base, the hateful grognards. Honestly, he never liked us, and he thinks that we are a nuisance like fleas or rats. I asked a marketing managing director, and he told me, that Steves approach is "questionable". Never, ever, attack your customers, he told me. So, we had Combat Mission, a winning concept, a shining jewel in the niche market of wargaming. Obviously it sold well enough, that guys like Steve went nuts...attacking long time customers, while aiming for RTS juvenile freaks. If you get money for doing a WW2 game, you should foster it. If WEGO is the newest hype, you schould NOT go RTS. Quote from Steve Grammont, ca. 1996:"CM will NEVER go RTS!" He is not, obviously, true. I tried the demo...horrible. Charles gave us "Over the Reich", "Achtung Spitfire", and "Flight Commander 2" (besides CM). All turn based, and all got a 9 or 10 out of 10. Why, o why, pleasing the mass market? The first thing is to get rid of your pr manager Steve "I hate all grogs" Grammont. This spells the difference between success or failure. Let him try EA or Hasbro... Tankist Why did you post the above comments to this forum? There were certainly other options open to you, GD for instance, or the CMx1 forums. I don't play any of those titles, but I don't post messages in their dedicated forums bitching because I dislike turn-based computer games. Seriously, what's the deal? PoE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankist Posted November 7, 2007 Author Share Posted November 7, 2007 Originally posted by Prince of Eckmühl: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Tankist: A long time has passed since I last gave signals. Sometimes it is hard to be right. Steve always said, that he has no interest in the old customer base, the hateful grognards. Honestly, he never liked us, and he thinks that we are a nuisance like fleas or rats. I asked a marketing managing director, and he told me, that Steves approach is "questionable". Never, ever, attack your customers, he told me. So, we had Combat Mission, a winning concept, a shining jewel in the niche market of wargaming. Obviously it sold well enough, that guys like Steve went nuts...attacking long time customers, while aiming for RTS juvenile freaks. If you get money for doing a WW2 game, you should foster it. If WEGO is the newest hype, you schould NOT go RTS. Quote from Steve Grammont, ca. 1996:"CM will NEVER go RTS!" He is not, obviously, true. I tried the demo...horrible. Charles gave us "Over the Reich", "Achtung Spitfire", and "Flight Commander 2" (besides CM). All turn based, and all got a 9 or 10 out of 10. Why, o why, pleasing the mass market? The first thing is to get rid of your pr manager Steve "I hate all grogs" Grammont. This spells the difference between success or failure. Let him try EA or Hasbro... Tankist Why did you post the above comments to this forum? There were certainly other options open to you, GD for instance, or the CMx1 forums. I don't play any of those titles, but I don't post messages in their dedicated forums bitching because I dislike turn-based computer games. Seriously, what's the deal? PoE </font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince of Eckmühl Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Originally posted by Tankist: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Prince of Eckmühl: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Tankist: A long time has passed since I last gave signals. Sometimes it is hard to be right. Steve always said, that he has no interest in the old customer base, the hateful grognards. Honestly, he never liked us, and he thinks that we are a nuisance like fleas or rats. I asked a marketing managing director, and he told me, that Steves approach is "questionable". Never, ever, attack your customers, he told me. So, we had Combat Mission, a winning concept, a shining jewel in the niche market of wargaming. Obviously it sold well enough, that guys like Steve went nuts...attacking long time customers, while aiming for RTS juvenile freaks. If you get money for doing a WW2 game, you should foster it. If WEGO is the newest hype, you schould NOT go RTS. Quote from Steve Grammont, ca. 1996:"CM will NEVER go RTS!" He is not, obviously, true. I tried the demo...horrible. Charles gave us "Over the Reich", "Achtung Spitfire", and "Flight Commander 2" (besides CM). All turn based, and all got a 9 or 10 out of 10. Why, o why, pleasing the mass market? The first thing is to get rid of your pr manager Steve "I hate all grogs" Grammont. This spells the difference between success or failure. Let him try EA or Hasbro... Tankist Why did you post the above comments to this forum? There were certainly other options open to you, GD for instance, or the CMx1 forums. I don't play any of those titles, but I don't post messages in their dedicated forums bitching because I dislike turn-based computer games. Seriously, what's the deal? PoE </font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankist Posted November 7, 2007 Author Share Posted November 7, 2007 Maybe you should read, and try to understand my post, instead of doing a fanboi impersonation. Tankist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwazydog Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Tankist, thanks for your thoughts. As has been mentioend this one is pretty much off topic and only going to cause unnecessary back and forth, so Im locking it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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