![]() This is really funny, they can add a button to stay in 1980 and play by mail, or check the box now 2019 yo baby you can walk and click on their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ icons while someone of your friends kicks the AI in a manual battle. Online games have moved beyond IRC channels and BBS systems. In case they haven't checked a calendar recently, it's 2019, not 1980. Of that 1%, how many are actually interested in multiplayer? And, of those sub-percenters, how many would still prefer an actually functioning simultaneous multiplayer? This "solution" is insulting to fans of the genre. So, PBEM hits like 1% of people who fall out of of those generalizations. So, your players over 50 who are old enough to remember similar game methods of a by-gone era might be interested for nostalgia reasons. This is what Age of Wonders: Planetfall feels like: A strategy game where no stone was left unturned, where players are dropped onto an island in a sea of possibilities, given only the few. Anyone between 20-50 have day jobs and only have to time to play in the evenings - a narrow window of time that may not correspond with an email prompt. ![]() ![]() I don't know the demographics exactly, but anyone under 20 years old probably has no interest in that kind of slow pace. ![]() Originally posted by OdinTheGrand:The developers seem to think that play-by-email is a satisfactory way to solve this issue. ![]()
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