Tragos
Otinanist
Personally i only have hope in indy developers and a couple of European companies like Paradox and Egosoft .
Ascaron went mainstream and got bankrupt following the fashion of draconian DRM plus some really really bad releases ( darkstar one , port royal that fails to start in most machines and the boring failure called "sacred 2")
I think all of them ( plus people like CDProject red and the Russians/Hrvatski) must focus on the European market releasing adult games ( adult in Europe does not mean "sexual") with depth and extended gameplay even if it comes with a cost in graphics .
The American audience is mostly kids without their own money going after FPS kind of crap , graphics , sounds , big guns and "WTF PWNGE" while the Japanese crowd has it's own strange gaming culture, trying to appeal to them guarantees FAIL .
Ascaron went mainstream and got bankrupt following the fashion of draconian DRM plus some really really bad releases ( darkstar one , port royal that fails to start in most machines and the boring failure called "sacred 2")
I think all of them ( plus people like CDProject red and the Russians/Hrvatski) must focus on the European market releasing adult games ( adult in Europe does not mean "sexual") with depth and extended gameplay even if it comes with a cost in graphics .
The American audience is mostly kids without their own money going after FPS kind of crap , graphics , sounds , big guns and "WTF PWNGE" while the Japanese crowd has it's own strange gaming culture, trying to appeal to them guarantees FAIL .