Wanted to love Balance of Power (Score 1)

I got and played Balance of Power when it came out, and I love games of that genre. I got into learning all the rules and the map and thinking about what to do and was really into it. But when I had played a few times, I realized that you could not win. I always either had the world blow up or lost badly by points. I ended up trying hard to win for a while, and was never able to. (I am gnerally good at games.) I finally gave up. Later I read an article about how he wanted to educate people politically using that game, and teach them how bad the cold war was. I was pretty unhappy, as he had made a game no fun *ON PURPOSE* in order to try and make a political point. So I think that makes him a terrible game designer. Games are supposed to be fun, and he actually made a game no fun on purpose. He has great ideas but if the game is not fun, it's no good.

It did not suprise me that BoP did not sell well. No fun should = bad sales.