The news about RRG from Oleg

[BadAim]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

You're sure that BoB is of little or no interest to the majority of non-Europeans, while the Korean War is much more interesting to the US-customers?

IMHO this formula is a little superficial.

How many people were interested in the eastern front-airbattle between Russia and Germany? Did this really lower the success of the series? I doubt that.

Even if BoB will not interest as many players as 1946 with all its variety, most players will see the future and they will switch to the new sim, hoping for their favourite area to be added next.

I think actually that Korea will have wide appeal, I am quite looking forward to saddling up on an old-school jet and duke it out with guns at 500mph. Of course I'm an uncultured American, so that's to be expected.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by BadAim

I think actually that Korea will have wide appeal, I am quite looking forward to saddling up on an old-school jet and duke it out with guns at 500mph. Of course I'm an uncultured American, so that's to be expected.

Absolutely right. But the theory is, that people outside of Europe are less interested in BoB and more interested in Korea (especially people in the US).

But I am also very much looking forward to the Korea-Sim, so there are some flaws in this theory after all.

[Thunderbolt56]

I want them both.

I CAN buy both...right? I mean, There's not a sim-limit or anything out there that says I can't buy both of these sims is there?

Here's the deal guys. Our voice will be amplified 1,000-fold by using our wallets as our plug-in...not these forums.

[BadAim]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

Absolutely right. But the theory is, that people outside of Europe are less interested in BoB and more interested in Korea (especially people in the US).

But I am also very much looking forward to the Korea-Sim, so there are some flaws in this theory after all.

That's the problem with theories, we're all wrong at least half the time; the problem is figuring out which half. (I think I'm wrong at least 52% of the time, but it's only a theory)

[Former_Older]

But hasn't that "theory" and it's implementation hurt us over the years?

It's assumed that the US market wouldn't want an Eastern Front flight sim- that was wrong

It's assumed that the Western market wouldn't car for Sturmoviks over Manchuria or 1946- that was wrong

It's assumed the "German community" says the VVS planes are too good

It's assumed the "Russian community" says that Oleg screwed the VVS planes

What needs to happen, and not just at Maddox games, is that the people who make combat flight sims must realize that their player base is not made up of rabid ultra-nationals who fit some boardroom's neat little graphs based on where the borders of countries lie, and wake up to the fact that we are enthusiasts who are interested in ALL aspects of combat flight simulation overall and specific aspects in particular.

And in our own flight sim community, we also must abandon these silly assumptions like "US players don't care about the Battle of Britain". It's a dismissive and wholly incorrect attitude we must get away from. We as players are not our country's stereotypes

We are flight sim and history enthusiasts. Don't assume we "don't care for" something. The history of this sim shows that line of reasoning has always been wrong

[ElAurens]

Well said sir.

Agree 100%

We all have our favorites (see my sig pic), but most of us want the whole thing. Some of the best times I've had in the whole IL2 series were back in the old days of the original IL2 when the BlitzPigs ran a series of coops for ourselves, I-16s, Mig3s and Sturmoviks over the snow covered landscape of the Eastern Front agianst horrible odds.

Nothing better, and not an American or British plane to be found. And at that point the Pigs were Americans, Brits, one each from Germany, Italy, Israel, and a hanger on from France who later became a Pig.

[Theshark888]

Originally Posted by Former_Older

...their player base is not made up of rabid ultra-nationals who fit some boardroom's neat little graphs based on where the borders of countries lie...

You are spot on. Give me the Med, Spain, China-CBI, Poland, BoF etc. and all of the interesting, never done before, aircraft and theaters

[robtek]

Yes, we want it all!!!
And we want it asap!!!
And of course without bugs!!!
Did I say we want it asap?