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Originally Posted by I/ZG52_Gaga
Dearest Thor we have met these off-liners and they quit after couple of cruel encounters with the On-liners or even forget about the game all together.... It's my strong belief though that it's the On-line Competitions that kept and still do keep the core warm....
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I totally disagree.
With the obvious exception of my squad who I met online, virtually no-one I know that plays IL2 ever plays online.
Further evidence of this can be found by looking at downloads. The largest download at Mission 4 Today is IL2 joy control with 23325 downloads. Taking into account this is an unusual utility on just one download site this suggests a community of one or two hundred thousands players.
There are simply nothing like one or two hundred thousand players online. There are several thousand at best.
What the online players are good at however is whining

Though few in numbers they are very vocal and very obvious in the forums.