Il-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Interview with Ilya Shevchenko

Originally Posted by TheGrunch

Well to be fair, they are supposed to be stand-alone titles that can be merged. I can just imagine the amount of new players getting confused about that wondering why they can't merge Il-2 Sturmovik:1946 with CoD and whatever else. It was such a poor decision using Il-2 as the brand for these new titles.

I have to agree. This decision was so short-sighted, atleast they will realize the mess later.

[major_setback]

So how do I merge it with Pacific Fighters?

[TheGrunch]

Yo dawg, I herd u cud just liek copie the directries across!!1

[BadAim]

Originally Posted by TheGrunch

Well to be fair, they are supposed to be stand-alone titles that can be merged. I can just imagine the amount of new players getting confused about that wondering why they can't merge Il-2 Sturmovik:1946 with CoD and whatever else. It was such a poor decision using Il-2 as the brand for these new titles.

There is no figuring the potential stupidity of marketing types, I'm sure that at some point Oleg just threw up his hands and said "Fine go ahead name it what you want, just publish the #%^&$%& thing already!"

[CrazySchmidt]

Originally Posted by BadAim

There is no figuring the potential stupidity of marketing types, I'm sure that at some point Oleg just threw up his hands and said "Fine go ahead name it what you want, just publish the #%^&$%& thing already!"

I agree and at the end of the day who really cares what the title is, it's how the bitch will play that matters (forgive me, I've been watching DNF vids the last hour and thus my language has been inspired).

Cheers, CS.

would be interesting to see how they modelled overheating and negative G fuel cut out in early spits. (a rich mixture cut-out, which would shut down the engine completely, which was a serious drawback in combat)...we will see hehe

[Feathered_IV]

"Few people realize just how hilarious game development is. No one sees it when the product is released. During development, nothing ever works the first time, and sometimes thing break in such unexpected ways, the entire office gathers in front of a computer and almost literally rolls on the floor laughing.

That's what makes the process fun. Tracers that loop around and hit your own plane. Pilots that grow giant legs and piggyback onto the fuselage"

Perhaps a Cliffs of Dover - Out-takes bonus DVD?

The title was a bad idea, and I guess it was out of Oleg's hands and yes, most marketing people have some manner of disconnect in their brains.

The "Cliffs of Dover: IL-2 Sturmovik" probably isn't going to be an issue with the majority of their customers. Most people who are flight simmers are pretty good at keeping current on the lastest news (not hard with such a small market). These people, the people who have been following for year and already pre-ordered it are not going to be a problem.

The new blood might be a different story. The people we need to get this niche market going again might be the ones that suffer or miss out completely. I can think of a hundred scenarios where the naming confuses people and results in them getting the wrong product or skipping this alltogether because they think it's a 10 year old game.

Storm of War was a great idea, and one that would have avoided all confusion, but that's over with and nothing we are going to say or do will change that. Hopefully Ubisoft gets off their asses and actually tries to market this game instead of just putting it on the back shelf behind their second string titles. Personally I don't like Ubisoft, and they never seem to learn their lessons, but hopefully this time they make a "mistake" and do something positive for COD.

[Trooper117]

It could be called 'IL2 Biggles and the Naughty Jerries' and I'll still buy it, and so would everyone else..lol!
Who cares what they decide to name it.. We've been waiting for it for years now, and whatever it's called it's purely academic.

[jpinard]

"Storm of War" was such a cool name. "Cliffs of Dover" sounds like hot-air balloon simulator. At some point, people who make stupid marketing decisions should be held accountable.