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Arryn said:
"Retail is the enemy of a complex game?" Nonsense. HOI is complex, and sold at retail. And Paradox continues to support it with patches, almost 3 years later. Need another example of a complex game? Try Morrowind. You cannot even say retail is the bane of niche games because HOI is a niche game.
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My understanding is that he is talking about complex game as a game with complex gameplay, not with complex underlying code. I'm sure that Morrowind or MMRPG or Online 3D shooter have complex code inside, but the end user doesn't care about it, for him it only matters how complex is it to play the game.
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Arryn said:
Regarding not being able to do retail and Online effectively, that's why I mentioned Stardock. They've made it work. Telling me that I'd "have to ask them" fails to answer my question to *you*, which was why can't you do what they've done?
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Well, it depends how one defines "work". True, they sold a lot of copies through the retail. But they didn't get paid for those copies. Read Brad's comments here:
http://draginol.joeuser.com/index.asp?c=1&AID=21895