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Why are there so few 4x games beeing developed?
Okay, my question is why do we see 4x games (like homeworld, ORB, Nexus-Jupiter Incident, Sins of a solar empire, etc) so rarely? Why is everyone concentrating on developing shooters/mmorpgs? Is this type of game (4x) more expensive? or what ?
BTW: any ideea on when homeworld 3 is coming out?
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