You know what else there's a market for? Slide rules.
Generally speaking, if I were to say that slide rules 'aren't desired', I would also assume that people are smart enough to get what I'm saying without having to make airplane noises while spoonfeeding concepts to them. I'm sure there's a handful of people out there who collect sliderules or still use them, but to the overwhelming majority of the rest of the earth, they're completely undesirable.
Anyone who thinks that TLP is proof that there's enough demand to warrant dumping money into a 1st gen MMO blackhole is fucking delusional.
Some of you people have been arguing for years that there's a metric fuckton of demand for Pantheon, yet the fucking game only got a trickle of public funding. That alone should tell you everything you need to know.
Is there a demand in the movie industry for something other than a super hero movie, retread or animated film ?
Of course there is and occasionally something other than that pops up.. the problem is when u can make bank on a proven formula of the same thing ( today that is action games) there is little point in investing into anything else, too much risk.
At some point a new indie MMO will bring back the past and be a hit then all of a sudden projects like pantheon will start getting funded by investors.
History repeats. Just look at the resurgence in CRPGs. Bg3, divinity, wasteland, pillars... and those were all crowdfunded or wouldn't have been funded.
Will pantheon be that hit ? I've given up nerlall hope when I see shit like "climbing" and the graphics of the above example look like 2k3. But I hope i am wrong .
I was part of the 1st gen of gaming, my first home sytem was pong. there are a ton of gamers today and we are all getting older and slower where twitch action games are very meh... the challenge is MMO cost and investing will always go where the money is, for example, ESO numbers crush eq at its peak, investors are not looking at eq anymore as a target,,, not enough $$