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<blockquote data-quote="Zombie Aladdin" data-source="post: 148537" data-attributes="member: 4242"><p>The thing is that <em>Eight Ball Deluxe</em> seems to be pushed to the wayside for personal reasons, meaning it's really unlikely you'll ever see it, and if it gets released, it'll only be released grudgingly.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Reaching objectives. While I personally don't find it much fun, there is a lot of appeal in <em>I Wanna Be the Guy</em>, to use an example, in trying to reach the end. You have infinite lives, so survival is pretty much guaranteed.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is precisely the issue here. These are two different audiences, and from the perspective of Farsight as a business, it'd be better for it to choose the larger one, assuming there is nothing that both audiences will go for (and it looks like there isn't). The older folks who want to play EMs are not as large of an audience as the ones who want to play later machines and thus don't bring in as much money.</p><p></p><p>Any time you see a company neglecting an audience, this is usually because the company does not expect that audience to be large enough or willing to pay enough to turn a profit. And appealing to fans alone is business suicide if you're not something on the scale of <em>Star Wars</em>, as can be seen with the $80+ million loss DreamWorks posted for <em>Rise of the Guardians</em> despite it being very popular on the Internet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zombie Aladdin, post: 148537, member: 4242"] The thing is that [i]Eight Ball Deluxe[/i] seems to be pushed to the wayside for personal reasons, meaning it's really unlikely you'll ever see it, and if it gets released, it'll only be released grudgingly. Reaching objectives. While I personally don't find it much fun, there is a lot of appeal in [i]I Wanna Be the Guy[/i], to use an example, in trying to reach the end. You have infinite lives, so survival is pretty much guaranteed. This is precisely the issue here. These are two different audiences, and from the perspective of Farsight as a business, it'd be better for it to choose the larger one, assuming there is nothing that both audiences will go for (and it looks like there isn't). The older folks who want to play EMs are not as large of an audience as the ones who want to play later machines and thus don't bring in as much money. Any time you see a company neglecting an audience, this is usually because the company does not expect that audience to be large enough or willing to pay enough to turn a profit. And appealing to fans alone is business suicide if you're not something on the scale of [i]Star Wars[/i], as can be seen with the $80+ million loss DreamWorks posted for [i]Rise of the Guardians[/i] despite it being very popular on the Internet. [/QUOTE]
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