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Originally Posted by Old_Canuck
Regarding the IL-2 Sturmovik name it's not an issue IMHO. The name Sturmovik brings to mind a great flight sim of superior quality that has kept my interest for nine years. Newcomers will learn that as well. In fact even if IL2/CoD WAS simply an addition to the IL-2 series I would buy it in a heart beat because of the reputation associated with the name.  |
i disagree, and like most people here i believe the bad naming of the new product will significantly hurt sales in the future
if the folks at ubi so desperately wanted to keep the name il2 sturmovik in the tittle, they should have called it something like
"il2 sturmovik series 2, Cliffs of Dover" ( or il2
version 2 etc..), all of which sounds ugly but at least would let them keep the marketing name AND would have gotten the important point across to sales drones in shops who deal with 100's of tittles that this is a completely
new product in the same series (and inform potentially new customers who remember vaguely "there was something good about the sturmovik flightsim" lets try this out and see what its like etc..)
that then completely differentiates all the earlier products from the new series, and avoids all the confusion of what addons work for what version. customers and sales people need a simple naming system that lets them know what works with what
this forum and the other i2 forums still have a regular trail of eager new flight-simmers who want to try the product, most have just bought an older version of il2 without knowing any better, and are seriously confused by what il2 product is a standalone or an addon, and they dont know the sequence of addons and newer versions that integrated all the previous versions in one product (so they get the improved version of the game). it is even made more confusion with the additional 3e party produced mission packs and other 3e party addons etc
this will get significantly worse with the release of the new product, and the flightsim series needs a simple naming system that makes it easy to know what is a completely new version of the game (il2 sturmovik version 2), and the original older series. even at this late stage they could still slap a little sticker (on the already printed boxes) with "il2 sturmovik series 2" on it, this is a very common last minute procedures in many factories,and the next print run of boxes will then have the better naming integrated in the box art