What will we see in July?

[kimosabi]

Originally Posted by csThor

That's nothing "North American" about it. Most casual gamers in "western countries" do not have an interest in flight sims. In fact most of them just want to be entertained, short term, without a steep learning curve to master the game. That and the steady descent of the attention span to the levels of the carpet's height, that is.

Vast majority of "western" people I have explained to that I'm flying sims have one common question: "Why don't you get a pilots license?" Most people see a game as a game, not a 50hour a week learning experience.

[Rattlehead]

Originally Posted by kimosabi

Most people see a game as a game, not a 50hour a week learning experience.

Very true, and a major reason why simulators of all types can never compete with arcade games in terms of sales.

But having said that, no game I've played has immersed me like Il-2, GTR etc.
Very few games last more than a week or maybe two on my drive; a sim can last years.

In short, I'm glad there are developers who still make simulators.

[Theshark888]

Americans want the daylight bombing campaign over europe 1943-45. Pacific is a more distant second. Make this with a good single-player campaign and they will come; B-17's, B-24's, etc. I don't believe 1C would be willing to pay the fees in order to get all the Ami aircraft

Korea is a no go along with NA (but it's my personal favorite).

[Al Schlageter]

North America is not just the USA. There is a country north of the USA called Canada which is very interested in the BoB.

By far the largest number of defenders were British, but fighter pilots of many other nations flew with them, including some 80 Canadians. Of these, 26 were in the RCAF's No. 1 Squadron, which arrived soon after Dunkirk; 16 flew as a team in the RAF's 242 "Canadian" Squadron; the rest were scattered among a dozen other RAF squadrons. These last included men such as PO. Johnnie Bryson, an ex-Mountie; Flt. Lt. Johnnie Kent of Winnipeg, who flew with the Poles in 303 Squadron; and FO. W. H. Nelson, who served in 74 Squadron with the South African ace Adolph "Sailor" Malan. Another 200 Canadian airmen fought in RAF Bomber and Coastal commands, which throughout the battle pounded at German invasion ports and other targets; 27 of them gave their lives.

[Timberwolf]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Actually North America is a smaller customer base (simmers) than Europe is. With first person shooters it's still the #1 market, but with something like CloD, Europe is the money-maker.

If you put this country and that country sure Europe has a market However if you put the pop of USA ( 311,529,000 ) people. Mexico (112,336,53 and Canada ( 34,480,000 ) close to 1/2 a billion people Compare that to England.Scotland,wales, Northern Ireland and ( 62,008,048 )

I use to player Fighter Ace online for 5 years ( 90%) of flyers spoke/typed english In my sqaudron we had 50 members New york, New orlens, Arizona Michigan, Canada: Me in Toronto and 1 in Vancouver, England scotland ausseland, and other squads were moslty the same with the odd russian or german or dutch player
Sadly the reason Fighter ace shut down in my own opinion was rather then listenning to paying customers on what over 50% wanted they added Korean war sever with jets ..Rather then adding a newer maps and better ideas
If your a true ww2 dogfight simmer picture 60 player flight of B-17's and 50 fighter planes and your squad in Lancasters spitfires and tempest and a few c-47's flying against 200 other online players in zeros, yaks, il-10's, 109's 190's ta 151, etc etc ...I'm telling you your knuckles are white and your right into the game .. you look at the clock and 3 hrs feel like 20 mins gone by...Thats what makes a great sim Keep whatever country you want happy and work on what makes it good even better others will join. Word will get out. Promise something and don't do it or change it into something diffrent from what you started a basis with and its doomed ..Fight ace and its jets was looked at as something diffrent and new.."NEW" wore off in weeks to come and was dead with in 6 months

What i would like to see in the future small maps ( we only used some of the map in single player and 90% is the same areas ) less loading and useage maybe Fps will be better and you could add more eye/ear candy with what you have

More online players per sever 200- 250
Its hard to think of adding planes or battles when all you have is 1 area and 1 year of the war time frame ..I would love to say north africa or Germany defence