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Actually, if I understand Sergei right, the label of RTS is not there so much to mislead customers, but rather they are purposely omitting a "global strategy" label, to not scare away the more casual gamer.

Originally posted by Sergei
when you go to Barnes & Nobles which is that "casual intelligent" audience that can feel motivated to get the game, and you read "global strategy" on the box displayed next to checkout, you probably think "another RISK? no thank you!" it simply may make the game too hardcore in perception.
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This seems pretty self-evident to me. ;)
 
Well, "global" would not be accurate either. This label fits EU and EU2 alright, but CK is just European / North Africa / Mid East.

"Strategy" it definitely is. The problem with putting the words "real time strategy" together is that they then form a special, very specific label which is not what the game CK is going to be like.

Maybe you could say that "real time" is just a way of saying "not turn-based", but I am not really convinced.

I can almost guarantee you that "RTS" is put there at the suggestion of some marketing crook who knows that lots of gullible, unknowing consumers in the US will take the bait and get hooked simply from that RTS label. I mean, it is just too powerful of a label not to be the result of some marketing conspiracy. I would bet a lot of money on that, if only the objective truth could somehow be known.

Thank our patriotic Orthodox socialist motherland-loving God that they didn't stoop to calling Crusader Kings a "first-person shooter and flight simulation set in Medieval Europe". Better not give those marketing guys any ideas, though.
 
Originally posted by Garbon
Well, its not the marketing persons fault that people don't read beyond the RTS labeling.:rolleyes:
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Of course it is - that is his job - to make them read the whole pack of exagerations in the big print (and skip over the tiny print at the botton).:D
 
Originally posted by Patric
No need to shout Sonny!

He is left handed in the original painting on the wall in our office and I thought it looked better that way, at least for this purpose.


:p P
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Sorry it seemed like a shout - it was a very loud groan. After hearing about the cover being flipped back to right handed and seein the great new forum look it was such a disappointment to see the sinister Richard I again.:mad: :( Waaah!:(
 
I think that people like the weird things such as "Grand Medeval strategy" or what have you, but the people who sell them, IE, Electronic botique and such do not...anyway,,
 
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