Publisher for SoW?

[JG52Uther]

It looks like Oleg could be finished with ubi,looking at the total lack of any SoW update posted on that site,so who else do you think could be in a position to publish SoW?
Could 1C do it themselves for the Western market?

[EAF331_Hans]

I think 1C should offer a download and mail-order service themselves. The game will promote itself within the community and you could send some copies for review in magazines and web sites. This way you will reach everynone interested in an advanced flight simm. And they will all be able to order via the 1C site.

I don't know how large the market is for causal buyers in traditional stores, but I think the market is moving towards digital downloads and web-stores.

/Hans

[Bearcat]

I think that barring the leaks that we saw with PF... SoW will be huge.... in every sim circuit I know of from magazine to web... with the exception of the die hard CFS fans it is pretty much agreed that this series is top dog, that 1C is king of the WWII sim at the moment... and SoW promises to raise the bar considerably.

[MOH_Hirth]

If 1C want a voluntary to help contacts with DVD company in Brazil/South America, i can help.

In USA why not talking with Microsoft? Bill Gates like simulators, if Oleg let SOW change name to CFS4...

[Viking]

I think, as UBI already have announced the news of the development of SoW on their homepage, that a contract already exists between Oleg and UBI but if I recollect correctly Oleg had the rights for IL2 in the eastern Europe and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the case again for SoW

[Avimimus]

1C was the distributor in Eastern Europe for the earlier series. There were murmurings (press releases) coming from 1C that several pieces of Russian software that did well with them were getting limited distribution in Western Europe/North America and that they were going to "invade". Hence the expansion of the English forums, "Tomorrow War" etc.

[MOH_Hirth]

Eletronic Arts have the best sistem sell protection agains pirance, Battlefiel2 sell more than 2000.000 copies, and to play online only genuine copy with online register.
1C can do something like this for SOW.

[TUCKIE_JG52]

IIf I was Oleg, I'll speak with serious simulation distributors. They are few, but keep growing everyday...

Perhaps the most known is Just Flight. and they are linked with several other minor distributors, at least here in Spain (Proein). Here also sounds Friendware and Draque.

Ubi does not care about simulation (specially in Spain), time to make the own way.

I hope Oleg will find the better way for him and for us.

[TUCKIE_JG52]

One more new from Spain: after selling 1946 at 19,95€ in stores for a month and half, now its prize has been lowered to 9,95€.

What does this mean? They (Ubi) want to eliminate all stock quickly? Justify low benefits from selling a simulator?

[Xiola]

I think that most Spanish pilots who wanted IL2 1946, will have bought a copy from overseas on EBAY or some mail order site well before the Spanish release (if I am understanding you properly, that 1946 was only released a month ago in Spain?>).

As such, it probably would not sell so well, being released so late after UK/US/Russian releases.

Plus, most games sell well in the first month, and then it drops a lot. They are probably still making a profit on it, they likely bought it from UBI at around 9 Euros and selling it at 9.99 will still make 99p and shift all the old stock. Better to only make 99p on it now, than have it taking up shelf space for 6 months and then stuck in a bargain bin for £2.99.

Its only the same as most other games. The price drops by £10 usually after a month or so here in the UK too. Its just most games are more expensive than £19.99 at release. 1946 was really a bargain in that respect at 19.99 on release.

I am such a cheapskate that I only just bought Battlefield 2 as I saw it in a bargain bin for £7.99!! I am loving it too, thinking of buying all the addons for it now I love all the different ways of playing, pilot, tanker, medic, spec ops who sneaks into the enemy base and blows up the artillery and command post. Theres a lot of strategy in there too, not just shooting.