"if the Game Developers had followed this solution, the Game would have succeeded"

gugleguy

This can be a PC / Console game that flopped or bombed in the Market Place.
My favorite failure is Microsoft Train Simulator.
Bear in mind where I've posted this thread, (AH) so don't attack the poster pleese, in advance. Thanks!
Reality: MS games thought it could just developed a ground based version of Flight Simulator, on railtracks, and it would all fine.
It was abandoned by Microsoft for good, about 2009.
My marketing: MS games should have developed Train Simulator from a historical perspective from the heydey of the loco. And have included maybe 10 or so long closed railway lines in the game pack itself. Shut railway lines could have made up the majority of the railroads or railways on offer.
A trip down memory lane. There was a lame effort down this route with a Sherlock Holmes add - on pack and WW2 British Military loco action but no more.

What favorite game could your marketing solution have saved?

Gone Drinking

gugleguy wrote: »

Bear in mind where I've posted this thread

I'm bearing it in mind alright, but it still doesn't make any sense!

Dravokivich

I don't have a marketing solution.

csallmighty

Boobs sell

Dravokivich

csallmighty wrote: »

Boobs sell

That was tomb raiders marketing campaign.

SEPT 23 1989

Have you tried writing a strongly worded letter of complaint?

whiskeyman

You need Railroad Tycoon.

Links234

gugleguy wrote: »

This can be a PC / Console game that flopped or bombed in the Market Place.
My favorite failure is Microsoft Train Simulator.
Bear in mind where I've posted this thread, (AH) so don't attack the poster pleese, in advance. Thanks!
Reality: MS games thought it could just developed a ground based version of Flight Simulator, on railtracks, and it would all fine.
It was abandoned by Microsoft for good, about 2009.
My marketing: MS games should have developed Train Simulator from a historical perspective from the heydey of the loco. And have included maybe 10 or so long closed railway lines in the game pack itself. Shut railway lines could have made up the majority of the railroads or railways on offer.
A trip down memory lane. There was a lame effort down this route with a Sherlock Holmes add - on pack and WW2 British Military loco action but no more.

What favorite game could your marketing solution have saved?

That's not a marketing decision, that's fundamentally changing the game's scope and focus.

stimpson

Microsoft Train Simulator: Thomas the Tank Engine Edition

Any parent will tell you that it would sell by the billion.

csallmighty

Dravokivich wrote: »

That was tomb raiders marketing campaign.

And I bought all the games. Those triangular boobies :P

razorblunt

Garbage Truck Simulator, they should have let you get out of the truck to buy dirty breakfast rolls, the Sun newspaper and have a fag.

whiskeyman

razorblunt wrote: »

Garbage Truck Simulator, they should have let you get out of the truck to buy dirty breakfast rolls, the Sun newspaper and have a fag.

Awaits the Greyhound Add-on pack

gandalf

whiskeyman wrote: »

Awaits the Greyhound Add-on pack

The Scab module

CrazyRabbit

X: Rebirth

So many people waiting so many years for the latest installment from the X series and they got one of the worst PC games ever.
They took everything that people loved from the earlier games and removed it. They decided to focus on and market the games graphics which isn't all that important for these type of games.

If they had just stuck with the original gameplay, polished it and added one or two nice new features then it would have been gold.

Barely There

The only thing more boring than discussing MS Train Simulator, is discussing the failure of the marketing campaign of MS Train Simulator.

Dyr

I actually own a copy of the tow truck simulator or whatever the f**k it was called, possibly the most hilariously bad simulator ever made.


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/tow-truck-simulator-review

Manic Moran

gugleguy wrote: »

This can be a PC / Console game that flopped or bombed in the Market Place.
My favorite failure is Microsoft Train Simulator.
Bear in mind where I've posted this thread, (AH) so don't attack the poster pleese, in advance. Thanks!
Reality: MS games thought it could just developed a ground based version of Flight Simulator, on railtracks, and it would all fine.
It was abandoned by Microsoft for good, about 2009.
My marketing: MS games should have developed Train Simulator from a historical perspective from the heydey of the loco. And have included maybe 10 or so long closed railway lines in the game pack itself. Shut railway lines could have made up the majority of the railroads or railways on offer.
A trip down memory lane. There was a lame effort down this route with a Sherlock Holmes add - on pack and WW2 British Military loco action but no more.

What favorite game could your marketing solution have saved?

I had MS Train Sim actually. It wasn't bad, but it appears that in competition with Railworks, it lost out due to ease of community modding support. Railworks has now evolved into the standard train sim (now known as Train Simulator 2014), and it's still going strong. It's on my hard drive. (My dad's created the Dublin/Cork route, incidentally)

There was nothing wrong commercially with the concept of a train sim, but MS didn't really take advantages of the possibilities should have provided.

Birneybau

gugleguy wrote: »

This can be a PC / Console game that flopped or bombed in the Market Place.
My favorite failure is Microsoft Train Simulator.
Bear in mind where I've posted this thread, (AH) so don't attack the poster pleese, in advance. Thanks!
Reality: MS games thought it could just developed a ground based version of Flight Simulator, on railtracks, and it would all fine.
It was abandoned by Microsoft for good, about 2009.
My marketing: MS games should have developed Train Simulator from a historical perspective from the heydey of the loco. And have included maybe 10 or so long closed railway lines in the game pack itself. Shut railway lines could have made up the majority of the railroads or railways on offer.
A trip down memory lane. There was a lame effort down this route with a Sherlock Holmes add - on pack and WW2 British Military loco action but no more.

What favorite game could your marketing solution have saved?

Yeah, that's exactly why Train Simulator failed. See also, Tram Simulator, Bus Simulator and my favourite, Monorail simulator.

Tail Docker

Train simulator. Sounds riveting. Almost as exciting as a knitting simulator.

Birneybau

Factory machine simulator was my favourite. Do 8 hours a day in work and then run home to do another shift on the p.c.

Czarcasm

gugleguy wrote: »

What favorite game could your marketing solution have saved?

My marketing solution to save board games -

Leave the classics alone! :mad:

They're great as they are, and when I use the present tense, I mean I had to source the original versions of games like monopoly and scrabble through my brother who's a toy collector. They simply couldn't be got in the likes of Smyth's with their ten different versions of monopoly alone, including "digital" versions.

They're like someone offering you an e-reader when what you want is a book!