Well, PC Gaming is just starting to get its major European and oversea flow of PC games in the USA.
I've once written somewhere here some very bitter postings featuring my own opinion.
To be found
here ,
here ,
here , and
here.
To cut it short, european gamers are - at least in my own opinion - treated as second or third class gmes - comparing o the U.S. . What I've noticed is a bias towards U.S. gamers - I put it into a sheme called "bigger, better, first".
It just happens that patches for european gamers take unbelievable incredibly long to make, boxes for U.S. gamers contain goodies, whereas in european games things are simply cut down (D&D rules completely missing in Baldur's Gate handbook), and games are generally published in the U.S. first (for example Age of Wonders : Shadow Magic, being developed by a Dutch company, but published in the U.S. by Take2 first of all).
The list goes on and on, and I can only hope that this bias vanishes one day.
If you really want to see what I think about it, you should read those articles.
Back to topic : The reason why <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> or <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> is not so famous is to a part to be sought in the "Action" fashion that's currently around. Action-based games are overwhelming the whole markets, and everything needing to use the brain is dying out, zynical speaking.
On the other hand ... a few more Adventures have risen from the Sea of Darkness lately ... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />
Alrik.
