Stupid Marketing Decisions
Jan. 14th, 2007 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerThis month's PC Zone has a review of an update to Perimiter, a Real-Time-Strategy that they were very nice about a couple of years ago for differing from the standard RTS tropes.
So I downloaded a demo for the original game, to give it a go. Only to discover that rather than releasing a tutorial level or two they just chucked in an actual level of the game. Which is different enough from other RTS games I've played that I managed to merely click on things at random for a few minutes before being wiped out.
This bears very little relation to anything I'd call "fun". The game itself may well be amazing - but I have no way of telling, other than clicking on things repeatedly until it starts to make sense. And the website doesn't have any useful tutorial information on it either, limiting itself to "Here are some vague terms and shiny pictures."
What a wasted opportunity.
So I downloaded a demo for the original game, to give it a go. Only to discover that rather than releasing a tutorial level or two they just chucked in an actual level of the game. Which is different enough from other RTS games I've played that I managed to merely click on things at random for a few minutes before being wiped out.
This bears very little relation to anything I'd call "fun". The game itself may well be amazing - but I have no way of telling, other than clicking on things repeatedly until it starts to make sense. And the website doesn't have any useful tutorial information on it either, limiting itself to "Here are some vague terms and shiny pictures."
What a wasted opportunity.
