Hi,
Well just so you and everybody else know - we also hate the registration process, copy protection etc. But we hate more software pirates - those people who under the mask of "Robin Hood", crack programs and steal them with impunity depriving the developers from the money they rightfully deserve.
Some of those pirates don't even try to don the "Robin Hood" mask - they just steal and brag about it - I hope that in real life they just don't break into a store and steal a TV ... no solution in sight I am afraid...
So both you and us are stuck with this, sorry.
Missions: We are looking towards releasing new missions of course, as we've promised. That will happen when most of you are comfortable with the sim and after we check with you all what kind of missions you liked and which real missions you would like to see in the future.
So yes, we do depend on how successful we'll be. We need to eat too, you know
Our success in part depends on the game, the support we provide and marketing, but on the other hand it depends on YOUR support too, and we do not mean only by buying the product. If you talk about SSM 2007 on other forums too, open a "SSM2007 GURU Blog" etc. this will go a long way towards making us popular enough to make SSM2010 a reality. If the numbers are right, we may be looking at a new franchise - exactly as we had in mind initially.
We have a LONG list of goodies for SSM2009, some based on ideas from the forum before the game was released - we only hope to implement all of them. We are extremely excited by the possibilities.
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