Beitragvon Cwali » 14. August 2004, 23:51 
			
			
			
			Siegfried Kurz schrieb:
> I read your article again and apart from promotion for
> StreetSoccer 
I ... see my former reaction. Sorry that I'm so interested in soccergames, incl. my own soccergames. 
> it contains no valuable information for Johnny
> Ebsen if we neglect the repetitions of Jan Ostmann's
> statement. 
I disagree. For example, not only get the biggest publishers a few hundred soccer games offered per year, most of the offers are from people who think they are 'the first' who contact the publisher with the fantastic idea of making a soccergame.
And I know about the high number of soccer games because I see that in the assortment of publishers in Nurnberg for example. You don't see many soccergames in shops. At the Nurnberg fair I could find ca. 30 soccergames, and maybe I missed half. A few companies go there with a soccergame only. I saw a company from Litauwen this year with only a big soccer game, but there is not much chance that you see such a game in a shop later.
> Hence we are left with an advertisement by Cwali
Sorry for unconsiously increasing my enormous profits with StreetSoccer. ;)
> The comparison to Logistico came to my mind because without
> knowing it beforehand, I would have never assumed both games
> to be designed by the same author.
I take that as a compliment. :)
> Please accept my apologies if you have taken this personally.
> Apart from criticizing the games mentioned above I could have
> also recommended games like ZooSim or especially Morisi.
Maybe I should not have taken it personally. But games like Titicaca, Morisi and Logistico are a type of boardgames which are in my opinion very different from what other publishers make. That counts for the Cwali-2-player-games too, in another way. (ZooSim was a bit different with building seperated and 'more' luck.) I think it's not easy to make such games good. That could be appreciated more in general. 
In case of StreetSoccer more than 60.000 matches are played online. That is appreciated by many already, and everyone can have his own comments about a game, but the comments by gamers about too much luck in that game still iritate me. Sorry! There are not many non-abstract 2-player-games with less luck. Online stats proof that. And the amount of luck in a game is not a good indicator about if a game is interesting or fun.