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

[Bobb4]

Battle of France would only require the addition of French and maybe Polish planes

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

Battle of France would only require the addition of French and maybe Polish planes

The battle of France would naturally be interesting, but not that many are masochists that like being massacred in their Fairey Battles My bet is on north Africa as it would explain the time spent on the Italian planes that where a minor part i Bob (compared to some German planes that are not flyable).

Another thing is that if I would ask a man on the street about the battle of France he would say 1944 and start talking about Normandy, but the north African campaign would bring up stories of desert rats and Rommel... Most adults in the west even recognize the Africa corps insignia after Indiana Jones

[addman]

Neither of these speculative follow-up titles would "raise my eyebrows". It would only be like "oh, a MTO/Battle of France/Eastern front addon, how EXPECTED" LOL! I think there's something going on that is going to shake up the community BIG time.

[DD_crash]

I hope that there are no copywrite or trademark entanglements. But with Ubi involved then you never know

[AWL_Spinner]

I do wonder what they're going to call the expansions.

In "IL2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover" the "Cliffs of Dover" is a second-level title so it'll be interesting to see if add-ons have no reference to CoD (which I suppose would make geographical sense), or whether that is retained to create a new "Brand".

Say we went to the Med,

IL2 Sturmovik: Sands of Malta

Would seem to make more sense than

IL2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover: Mediterranean

But then without reference to CoD there is no "tie-in" to the product you're expanding. On the shelf, IL2: 1946, IL2: CoD and IL2: SoM would all seem to be at the same top level, whereas in reality they're not.

Bit of a branding pickle if you ask me. Which I appreciate you aren't

Still, nice interview.

Cheers, Spinner

[ATAG_Doc]

This is going to be great! Can't wait.

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by AWL_Spinner

But then without reference to CoD there is no "tie-in" to the product you're expanding. On the shelf, IL2: 1946, IL2: CoD and IL2: SoM would all seem to be at the same top level, whereas in reality they're not.

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.

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.

[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!"

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by AWL_Spinner

Say we went to the Med,

IL2 Sturmovik: Sands of Malta

Great except Malta only has one beach with any sand on it.