dtrainBNSF1 wrote:I agree that this whole business of BNSF's trademark not being available outside the US is silly, but at the end of the day it is their trademark and they can do with it what they please. Still sucks but that's business. Trademark stuff is why it took so long to get any CSX content in Train Simulator and I suspect a big reason as to why we don't see more BNSF-related content in the store because the smart business idea is to create more content that's available for everyone to legally purchase (the last one was the ATSF SD45-2 by DTM and I know there was a lot of grumbling because an international version without the ATSF logo was not produced). Personally I'm surprised DTG and GNTX haven't gone back and produced international versions like what they did with the Chicago-Aurora route and the Clear Creek Narrow Gauge route by now because plenty of foreign players want to buy these routes. Is it a question of time? Of costs?
Remember, computer game studios need to recuperate their costs in the first two weeks of sales. After that, the numbers are down to a trickle. One can only hope for few game breaking bugs, as debugging costs money while there is no money made anymore.
DTM: I have a bone to pick with them over their QA as of late, but am completely guessing as to why they don't offer other road names, Clinchfield would have sold well when a matching heavy duty coal hauling route was available. Even SCL and EL, now we have native routes.
