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10 years ago - pretty much to the day - two guys with a rather fancy idea of breaking free from the chains of traditional game distribution and starting to sell their games online, revealed their plans to the world.
People were already scratching their heads about these two guys. They planned to make a 3D wargame that noone thought was possible to pull off anyway. 3D? We-go turn-based? Just these two guys on their own?
As it turns out, ten years later, both these plans worked, and did they work.
Combat Mission Beyond Overlord revolutionized the wargaming genre for the years to come. You just need to look at the string of WW2 RTS games that followed its release to grasp the impact, and it lasts until today.
And the decision to sell online has brought Battlefront to where it is today - one of the biggest wargaming communities on the net and perhaps the only one with original game content - and allowed what at first was meant to be merely a lifeboat, a plan B, to survive and grow while most other traditional publishers faded away.
Battlefront.com today counts more than 200,000 online customers, nearly 30,000 community forum members, and around a million hits to www.battlefront.com each day.
Phew. What a ride!
Obviously the people who made it possible are you, the fans. Without the enduring support from the community, the supportive emails and vivid discussions on the forums, the creativity of the modders and scenario makers ,and the passion and endurance of all our volunteers - beta testers, supporters, freelancers and helping hands (you know who you are!) - all of this would not have been possible. Thank you all for the past ten years. We'll promise you that the next 10 will be just as exciting!
So, enough talking, where's the champagne you ask?
Well, we decided against cheesey "CMBO Limited Anniversary edition" sales. We have always wanted to break with what seems to be a tradition in the wargaming market of milking your customers by relabelling product. We also decided against fancy merchandise. Who really needs "I played CMBO for 10 years and all I get was this lousy t-shirt"...
Instead, we want to give you a first glimpse of where this journey began, and where it's leading to, in the next 10 years, by releasing a very first in-game shot of the next World War Two Western Front Combat Mission game.
What, just one lousy screenshot? Yes, just one lousy screenshot. AND notice how I skillfully sailed around mentioning any official game title, too :)
It has been a long way from here...
to here...
Thanks for sticking around during the ride so far, we hope you enjoyed it, and we trust that you stay with us for the next ten!
Your Battlefront.com Team
Charles, Steve, Kwazydog, Madmatt, Fernando, Rune, Webwing and Moon
