Is It Time To Change The Name ??
 

Hi all,

Cliffs of Dover. I never liked that title. With all the improvements, is it time to change the name?

And would this help sales?

Best Regards,
MB_Avro

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"Clovercliffs. Pounding of community". Or "The Patches of uselessness".

Like, alternative!

Are you mental?

The title will be changed on release of sequal right? Like old IL2? ;)

The title will change when we buy the Sequel, and every Sequel after that. The trials and tribulations will soon be forgotten if the Sequels a success. It will then be just the Channel Map working on a more finished game engine and features. It will also be forgotten if the Sequels a failure, as the development and COD will die, unless the mod community can revive it.

I don't see that as a possibility at all, there is just way too much interest in the brand.

In the corporate world, if a company has performed badly, directors know if they change the name, the old name takes the old problems with them .. sometimes. New name = new company ??? (so directors hope! :grin: )

I think 1C should change CLOD to "IL2 : Battle of Britain" .. then re-release "IL2 - Battle of Moscow, IL2 - Battle of Britain & IL2 - Spanish Civil Air War" as a triple combo.

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That makes sense to me :)

Possible? The development is barely surviving now. COD was not a success and never came close to covering the development costs. That said its unlikely it would have anyway, as the development costs had risen too high for the initial release in the series to cover them.. If the Sequel doesn't make a significant improvements it will also fail. How long do you think IC will continue to throw millions at the development with little return. Interest? There may be interest, but the forums are full negativity that would drive anyone that may have had a budding interest in the series away. Luckily the series could easily be reborn if the Sequel addresses most of the game engines issues, all the past angst would soon be forgotten.

The development has already decided not to use IL-2 Battle of Britain, and used IL-2 COD, for a variety of reasons. It doesn't matter anymore as the series moves on anyway with new names. The only tricky part is letting people know that the Sequel (IL-2 Eastern Front, IL-2 BOM, IL-2 BOS) or whatever they name it, also includes the Battle of Britain.

Spanish Civil War, Battle for Poland, or Battle for France probably won't be made by the developer as the theaters is too small, but those will most likely be made by commercial third parties or community third parties, using the map SDK etc.