alt Hacker News> This couldn't have happened 10 years ago.
I agree. Something similar could have happened 30 years ago, and it did, see Transport Tycoon (or a lot of early games). But from 2000 to 2020?
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p-e-w • today at 9:02 AM
The difference between today and 30 years ago is that if you are an individual developer, you are at the complete mercy of a single company (Valve), who can force you to do essentially anything they want for the privilege of publishing on their platform, with no meaningful alternative, and zero recourse if they say “no”.
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a) Transport Tycoon does not have that detail grade, actually its a "comic sim"
b) Chris Sawyer had a team of graphic artists etc, IIRC
c) TT is not about a "train sim", but a business sim