This sim is so popular because .. it is just a
damn good flight sim DAMN GOOD... period..
From day one.. right out the box... period.
If this sim was not head and shoulders above ANYTHING out there in 2001 when it was released we wouldn't be here now.... pirates, free patches and all be damned... 1C had to be able to eat from the proceeds .. or else they would be doing something else now...
IL2 didn't raise the bar for flight sims...
it redefined it .... and that is why it has such a following... anytime you can get a software product...a
game mind you (OK I have been guilty of the semantics thing ... to me it is more sim than game... but let's face it..at the end of the day.. it is a
computer game) that ...
even after 9 almost 10 years on the retail market, given
Moores Law it is still a product that can
after almost a decade on the market make a high end PC burp and still play well on a 7 year old rig... You have something truly special... I tell ya what... get any sim from the era... run it on your current rig (if you can) and then get IL2.. not even 46.. IL2.. and max it out.... and tell me it is not a thing of beauty on your PC.. FB even more so... This sim can play well on Oss fro Win 98 to Vista.. even Linux.. What's not to like...
Thats why this sim is so popular.. there are guys who have been here for 6+ years... and new guys coming in every day...