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Well, Gentlemen
Its great to hear you all giving support to Andrea's, Jim and Tom and the rest of the people who contributed into making this game to our minds an almost perfect simulation of a sport we all here love. Myself i also go along with you. If i posted just these remarks and left it at that, i am sure my posting would be well received by the members of this board. But then in the long run that is no good or any help to Andrea's and Co.
Now take a step back, and look at it from a different point of view.
On here we are all members of a sort of elite group, in fact in the real world of computer gaming we are in love with a sport that is no longer in favour with the buying public.
Download.com does not consist of just boxing lovers, so don't expect the same adulation's and praise to given to our little game. The people away from this forum have a choice in a very competitive market to spend there hard earned 40$ or 50$ on.
Today a lot buy state of the art computers a graphic card alone can cost you up to 600$ So to there minds they want and expect top class games with state of the art graphics and great game-play to go with it.
Now think of the competition away from our little narrow world and please remember we are now not just dealing with sports simulations in completing for the public dollars. We have Far Cry, Rome Total War, Doom3, Half Life, Call Of Duty, Pro Evolution Soccer 3, and so on. The comeback of course from most here would be, but were not EA or a major company with billions of dollars. But that in truth does not cut the ice when it comes to selling games. The perspective customer does not care about the company's assets, all he wants for his money is what he considers which game will give him the most enjoyment.
Now take our game, very appealing to us, and we understand the blurred pics are put there for a reason. The game is also in fact made better by Cubes pics of the real fighters and the graphics can of course be improved by downloading the clear pics. I would say these add-ons make the game jump up by maybe 10% alone.
The problem is, this is not what the average person sees when he downloads the demo. He sees a black figure representing a white fighter and visa versa. He also looks at the blurred pics of the fighters and thinks hey is this what i bought my top of the range computer to watch. Very quickly he will tire of this and pay out to buy some of the top games on the market instead.
Andrea's i have not wrote this to be negative but for food for thought for the next and future versions of our game. To appeal to the average gamer if you want to catch the average buyer we need to take a long hard look and although it goes against the grain to be very critical of our own product. In today's very competitive market where the paying customer has many choices where to spend his dollars. The Company needs to make sure our product as much as we can is more appealing to the average buyer and not just the dedicated boxing fans on here. A daunting task i will agree, but to expand and steer this Company in the right direction some of my points i feel need to be given at least some consideration.
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