This is going to take one or a handful of highly motivated individuals to make a new subsim game.
I don't see how buying the Silent Hunter IP or source code or hiring an existing studio makes any sense. What are you going to do? Say donate to my kickstarter and once I get all this money I will negotiate on your behalf?
I disagree that the sim market is dead. Look at the success of Minecraft, X-Plane, and Kerbal Space Program. Yes, Call of Duty fans outnumber us, but part of being an older group is that we also have more money. X-Plane 10 is $70 plus shipping which I gladly paid. It's a great sim.
It's just going to take a talented programmer with a great vision for a new subsim game to run a successful kickstarter campaign. I'm not a programmer so I'm not going to do it, but I hope someone else does.
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