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Originally Posted by kestrel79
I disagree with this. You ask any casual gamer or casual aviation video game fan what IL2 is and highly doubt they even know what it is. It is a very popular and strong market name in the FLIGHT SIM community yes, but not with the masses. And in order for BoB to be a success, it will have to cross over and appeal to casual non simmers.
See we are the hardcore, we know and love IL2. But we hardcore simmers are about 1% of IL2 sales sadly.
They need a name and boxart that grabs these casual gamers attention, not confuse them with a Battle of Britain sim that is named after a Russian ground attack plane...
Like others have said at least in the West give it a new name, with maybe Oleg's name above it:
Oleg Maddox's
STORM OF WAR : The Battle of Britain
the new sim from the makers of IL2
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You've good points be sure, but IL2 is an example of a word which has lost its primary meaning in the customers feeling, first of all for the western customers and if Ubi has decided for it, we are not so few as we could think.
In Russia, IL2 is an aircraft with a particular meaning (the same is for the SU-25), but for the others is only a "Red Star" that does remember them the best sim they have had for 10 years, and 10 years are really a lot for a product.
But what you say about new customers is correct.
11-11-2010, 04:32 PM
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