Battlefield, Call of Duty, Far Cry: The game industry is full of blockbusters gathering millions of players. But they shiver in Germany before a competitor, which also comes from a new title: The Agricultural Simulator!
For over a decade, the games of the LS has been developed and since then the series as a permanent burner in the game elements is in Germany. We go for the reason for the reason, talked to the developers, fans and professional players and clarify what's behind the fascination to indulge in digital country life.
Table of contents
- Page 1 Fascination Agricultural Simulator: From E-Sport, Modding Culture & Configuration, Page 1
- 1.1Ab on the field!
- 1.2 From the toddler to the pensioner
- 1.3I modes you what!
- Page 2 Fascination Agricultural Simulator: From E-Sport, Modding Culture & Fan Resources, Page 2
- 2.1 sporting performance
- 2.2The fascination of variety
- Page 3 picture gallery for Agricultural Simulator 22: Why do you love so many?
AB on the field!
At some point in LS 2008, only bare, colored textures were used. Source: Games The year 2008 is a good game year with GTA 4, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead or Dead Space. There was a lot to do, and yet some players turn away to plow fields in front of the PC, fertilize plants and to reverse the harvest. On April 14, 2008, the developer company Giants Software from Switzerland with only two developers launches the Agricultural Simulator 2008.
At first glance an extreme niche title with Kruger graphic. The landscapes Detail arm, the animations choppy and models have places just bare, colored textures.
Nevertheless, a large partner can already be won on debut with the agricultural machine manufacturer Fend, which licenses its tractors for the game. In addition, the core element, which until today makes the agricultural simulator, also seems to work well at that time: the field work.
Martin Rail — Head of Marketing & Public Relations at Giants Software. Source: Games Already in 2008 you have to plow his field, sill, fertilize plants and harvest to sell his yield final. From the money introduced, new agricultural machinery is added. This gameplayloop meets a nerve in many players.
Despite crumb graphics, the LS 2008 climbs within a short time in the high positions of the sales charts. With such a success, the developers never counted in life, but they are quickly prepared with the appropriate surfboard to ride the marginal success wave.
Since 2009 — except 2020 — each year a new part of the simulation, either for PC and consoles or mobile platforms. Within the years you have built up a decent fan base.
According to Martin Rail, Head of Marketing & Pr at Giants, this is due to many factors. One of the most important are the deceleration and self-determination. The Agricultural Simulator allows one of the opportunity to determine the pace of its progress itself. How many fields can you manage when do you bring the harvest away and what new device do you buy? Great machines to drive is quite one of the stimuli of the agricultural simulator. Source: Games Any questions that you can answer yourself in peace yourself. The concept goes up and is expanded over the years with livestock, lumberjack and more. This brings the LS since his start to over 25 million units sold.
While this is not in the astronomical quantities of a Call of Duty or GTA 5, yet many publishers would like similar successes. A success that should be further expanded with the Agricultural Simulator 22 (Buy Now €66.99 / €39.99).
From the toddler to the pensioner
With Precision Farming, fertilizer insert and more, an unexpected depth is behind the LS. Source: Games to create that is absolutely not unlikely, because the pool from potential players is huge, as Randy Pfeifer, operator of the YouTube channel Corn hub and Sachsenletsplayer says:
The advantage of the LS is that he has a US release from 0 years, so theoretically everyone can play, from the toddler to the pensioner. Everyone knows: You have a tractor, you have a grubber — you make fields with it, You have a combine harvester and Irish the grain with it. That also understands a small child. Experienced players bring through mod with soil samples and Precision Farming more realism in.
Since 2016, Giants has been holding their own Farmcon and goes there with the community on cloth sensation. This confirms the picture of the wide population layer. This even includes farmers themselves who can examine new tractors in the simulator or discover areas outside their own specialization.
The affinity for such a special genre as that of the agricultural simulator many do not have on the screen. It is with soil texture, fertilizer insert, animal breeding and a more unimagined depth in the game, the newcomers surprised.
In order to expand this depth, the Agricultural Simulator published this year adds 22 new features that players wish for a long time. With the seasons, digital farmers have to stick to the calendar and put their seed and harvest their seed at the right time.
Production chains Extend the business to parts of the manufacturing industry, and with the new sound design, players should dive even deeper. But these features are not necessarily new for PC players. With popular mods, there were the new elements many times already in its predecessor. With the Harmon Giants has been organizing its own trade fair since 2016, which attracts numerous visitors. Source: Giants
I modes you what!
The modding community is an integral part of the LS, which ensures a tremendous longevity. Source: Games Already since the LS 2008 enthusiasts are expanding for their simulator. Be only vehicles and devices that did not take it into the full version, or completely new cards and systems. Both sides benefit enormously. On the one hand, the developers give their tools to the community, which can specialize in their simulator, as they desire. On the other hand, Giants extends the support and interest in each new part.
Bethesda has been a similar strategy for decades with its role plays. Among other things, Skyrim is still a long-term burner for many players. The molders are more experienced with the lifecycle of the games in dealing with the developer tools and creating more and more complex modifications for players. A self-preserving ecosystem.
With its own courses, the developers give the modern their tools to the hand. These then build their own extensions. Source: Giants This is also aware of Giants, keeping close contact with your mod community. For example, the Farmcon originally created as a meeting for modding friends, so you can go to wishes and demands of the community.
Nonetheless, a developer can fall on the feet. On the one hand, there are calls from the community to accuse Giants, only install features of popular mods into their new parts. Finally, there are already production chain extensions for the LS 19 and the extremely popular Seasons-Mod adds seasons into play. One of the creators of this modification is now even working with Giants itself.
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30.11.2021 at 16:59
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