cascaderailroad
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Say a kid asks his parents for the TS19 Game
The every year subscription costs between $100, and $150 per year ... and after 365 days the game shuts off, and you can no longer play it unless you pay another $100, and $150 per year, each and every year ...
The parents find that the household laptop PC will not run Trainz (but it does run every other PC game on Steam)
Requiring them to purchase a brand new $2000 Windows laptop PC (not an Apple MAC laptop)
It seems that N3V is shooting them selves in the foot, killing off sales ... as most parents would say to the child: "What ? $2,150" ... "You have to be completely outa' your cottin' pickin' mind if you expect us to buy a $2,000 Windows laptop PC, and spend $150 on a yearly subscription, each and every year, on a 365 day basis ... just to run a stupid Train down a track"
To most parents, that is like Microsoft saying: "Your PC will shut down after 365 days, until you pay for a brand new 365 day $150 yearly subscription, each and every year".
You can try to justify the $150 yearly cost of the subscription all you want, by saying a Model RR layout would cost you thousands per year ... and that you get hundreds of dollars of DLC for a fraction of the original cost ...
But it all boils down to the plain and simple fact: That you previously could buy a legacy Trainz game for $20 to $70, and it would run forever, and it would never automatically shut down after the 365 days expire
It just seems that N3V is self eliminating a HUGE chunk of the potential marketplace ... as 99% of people would say: "What ? $2,150" ... "You have to be completely outa' your cottin' pickin' mind if you expect us to buy a $2,000 Windows laptop PC, and spend $150 on a yearly subscription, each and every year, on a 365 day basis ... just to run a stupid Train down a track"
The every year subscription costs between $100, and $150 per year ... and after 365 days the game shuts off, and you can no longer play it unless you pay another $100, and $150 per year, each and every year ...
The parents find that the household laptop PC will not run Trainz (but it does run every other PC game on Steam)
Requiring them to purchase a brand new $2000 Windows laptop PC (not an Apple MAC laptop)
It seems that N3V is shooting them selves in the foot, killing off sales ... as most parents would say to the child: "What ? $2,150" ... "You have to be completely outa' your cottin' pickin' mind if you expect us to buy a $2,000 Windows laptop PC, and spend $150 on a yearly subscription, each and every year, on a 365 day basis ... just to run a stupid Train down a track"
To most parents, that is like Microsoft saying: "Your PC will shut down after 365 days, until you pay for a brand new 365 day $150 yearly subscription, each and every year".
You can try to justify the $150 yearly cost of the subscription all you want, by saying a Model RR layout would cost you thousands per year ... and that you get hundreds of dollars of DLC for a fraction of the original cost ...
But it all boils down to the plain and simple fact: That you previously could buy a legacy Trainz game for $20 to $70, and it would run forever, and it would never automatically shut down after the 365 days expire
It just seems that N3V is self eliminating a HUGE chunk of the potential marketplace ... as 99% of people would say: "What ? $2,150" ... "You have to be completely outa' your cottin' pickin' mind if you expect us to buy a $2,000 Windows laptop PC, and spend $150 on a yearly subscription, each and every year, on a 365 day basis ... just to run a stupid Train down a track"
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