How to best pave the road for SAGA:DD to become succesful

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So succesful in fact, like Wing Commander games of yore. (Old timers should remember what I am talking about). The rest should just take my word for it.

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To keep a long story short, the biggest problem that I fear Wing Commander Saga: DD is that it will simply fizzle out in the vast number of games and mods thereof that are out there and are going to be released soon. Below are the most anticipated games for 2012. No flying game in there, let alone a wing commander or something of the sort. https://www.pcworld.com/article/243668/ ... _2012.html

Top 16 mods for already released games. http://www.pcworld.com/article/237897/t ... _mods.html

No love for Space sim/ space combat games. Besides, from one already released game, tens of mods can be released that would expand one games' total playing time tenfold if not hundredfold. For example, Kingdoms Total war has 33 released mods (some of whom are entire games in their own right) with 21 mods about to be released. Those 50+ mods are just for Kingdoms: Total war (itself an expansion to Medieval 2 Total War). The advent of internet and digital publishing has made things somewhat worse, with sites like moddb becoming a platform for the release of multiple games and mods.

So, what do we do then? I think the answer is to release information about Saga:DD to specific sites that would be interested about Saga. This would also make sure that 10 years of work from the Developers won't go awry, for 10 minutes of fame and then fizzle out. Wing Commander Saga: DD has the potential to draw in new wing commander fans for many years, because it is free, it is online for anyone to download and yes it is that good. Therefore, it is important to make this one count. Let's start the discussion then. What we should do, to get the maximum amount of coverage for Wing Commander Saga:DD. Please, take some time to write your own ideas. Anything we can do, within the limitations we can work in, to make sure that Wing Commander Saga:DD is the success that it deserves to be is worth it.