We need more of these. There aren't anywhere near enough of them, especially if you consider that most of the games which grace shop shelves are likely either EA titles or from some other huge publisher. Marketing dollar speaks, and you get what you pay for. Does this mean million-dollar advertising budget games are good? Hell no. Hollywood is proof of this. Remake after tedious remake, raking over the coals of past glories, trying to cash in on the great titles of the past. Bigger budgets, more special effects, more star power, more this, more that... and in the end, they almost always fall short. Far short. Which is sad and pathetic, considering that the originals were often low budget productions. Back to space sims. There needs to be more of the Privateer / Freelancer type, rather than mindless shooting games thinly disguised as space sims (hello Darkstar One, Space Force: Rogue Universe). Sure, these new games LOOK pretty, but are LOOKS everything? No. HELL NO. Tetris is a worldwide phenomenon and it didn't get there with the help of any 3D jazz, rah rah music, or other crap like that. It is simply gameplay, pure distilled gameplay. Look at the people defending Darkstar One, for example. The devs boasted (boasted!) that it would be "Freelancer done right". Right, my ass. You only ever fly ONE ship in the entire game. Of course, you do kit it up the wazoo just like some ricer, but it's still the same ship. Then the star systems. One star, one station, one asteroid field, and a bunch of background which start to appear suspiciously familiar the longer you play. All of the systems are exactly like that. "Uninspired" is the least unkind word I could use to describe it. Finally, the factions... they use the same old cliche "cops-and-robbers" style pirates vs police. Freelancer did factions way better than that... A DECADE AGO. More devs need to try their hand at space sims. After all the worst you can do is produce a mediocre one, but there's far less competition than if you produced a mediocre shooting game.