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State of Eudros #10 - Controller Support, Polls & Next Kingdom!
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Giveaway!
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Great driving physics, horrible collision physics
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Pinball FX
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Why do people snipe with tanks
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FREE GEMS💎
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PDX Needs Some Serious Competition
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The problem is: A game like this is much, much harder to develop as it looks. Paradox already has the advantage of experience, work pipelines and technology from the last decades that they can share between their teams, every other developer would need to start from scratch. The games, even in the troubling state that they are, are not easy to beat, and since it is a rather niche genre, there is not much to be gained either.

It is simply not worth it to finance a 4+ year game development in a genre that they have no expertise in. The chance is just very high that even if you manage to create a devent game, it will not be enough to dethrone the already established game that dominates this niche.

Additionally to that, there is opportunity cost: Even IF that is possible and a wealthy but not ♥♥♥♥♥♥ publisher takes on this and throws enough time and money on it to create the "Victoria 3 killer", it is still a relatively niche genre and they would just earn more money if they use that time and money to create a game with a broader mass appeal.

It is very similar - I think - to the Sims, where even though the last game was 10 years ago and not exactly the series' best entry, there has still no "Sims" killer emerged. Even though it superficially looks rather simple, it is very complex to do it properly, and bundled with the fact there is already an established top dog in that niche it is just not a promising project.

Or Civilization - even though several have tried to beat it, the strongest rival to Civilization 6 is still its own predecessor. Funnily enough, not even its own successor seems to manage this.

But I want to add that I don't really know what I am talking about, a disclaimer that I think should automatically applied to most comments on steam :-)
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Stop with the Versus XIII stuff, you will only be disapointed.
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"Fun with Objects, Part 1" is out NOW!
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New subclass, Good or bad?
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