Fresh stuff from sukhoi.ru (Discussion)

[Force10]

Originally Posted by Insuber

For once in a lifetime I agree with AoA, maybe I will even delete him from my ignore list. The fact that CoD was broken at release is an obvious fact, but today it is very playable for the majority of ppl. Yet many continued to bash it and produce tons of negative publicity. And the "I won't buy the sequel" tantrum probably had some influence in the MMO decision.
My opinion.

Or it could be that the devs just don't have the coding chops to actually fix this mess. They have had a year and it really isn't that much better than when they started. Maybe they can better code an arcade type cash cow instead.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

I would still wait for the OFFICIAL announcement before jumping into any conclusions, which seems to be the case already. My bet is that IL-2 series will continue as it's own branch like it has done for the last 10+ years and this MMO, or whatever you want to call it, is just another branch to the IL-2 franchise. Until anything solid is shown I will for sure enjoy IL-2 series until something better will emerge, which I doubt will happen any time soon.

I would like to share your optimism, but probably the dev team is too small to develop 2 parallel but different products.

[Ataros]

Some MMOs allow flying custom missions in a separate room using aircraft which you already opened in main arena. Hope it will be possible in this sequel too.

[addman]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

S!

I would still wait for the OFFICIAL announcement before jumping into any conclusions, which seems to be the case already. My bet is that IL-2 series will continue as it's own branch like it has done for the last 10+ years and this MMO, or whatever you want to call it, is just another branch to the IL-2 franchise. Until anything solid is shown I will for sure enjoy IL-2 series until something better will emerge, which I doubt will happen any time soon.

Words from the wise, I tried to say the same thing in an earlier post but it seems mass-hysteria has already set in.

P.S As Flanker35M mentions below, a company's long term business decisions are not determined by a couple of hundred raving forum members. I doubt CoD would've been a million seller even if everybody was singing "praise the lord, CoD!" all day long here. Geez, what planet are you guys from anyway?

[Flanker35M]

S!

Banana forum rantings have nothing to do with MMO orientation IMO. A bunch of fans loud mouthing on an interenet site does not control what a company will plan or do. Like some say at work: a sergeant should not take the worries of a general.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by addman

Words from the wise, I tried to say the same thing in an earlier post but it seems mass-hysteria has already set in.

P.S As Flanker35M mentions below, a company's long term business decisions are not determined by a couple of hundred raving forum members. I doubt CoD would've been a million seller even if everybody was singing "praise the lord, CoD!" all day long here. Geez, what planet are you guys from anyway?

As far as I know and practice everyday, company business decisions are very often determined by customers' feedbacks, opinion polls, marketing intelligence. This forum is a window on CoD's customer base, don't you think that a prudent management would take into account those 200 forum members orientation when deciding where to put their bets? I would do so, at any rate.

Cheers!

[Force10]

Originally Posted by Insuber

As far as I know and practice everyday, company business decisions are very often determined by customers' feedbacks, opinion polls, marketing intelligence. This forum is a window on CoD's customer base, don't you think that a prudent management would take into account those 200 forum members orientation when deciding where to put their bets? I would do so, at any rate.

Cheers!

I would wager the decision would come primarily from the popularity of other MMO's lately. I can't remember one post at this forum asking for a more dumbed down, arcade MMO experience. COD is supposed to support 128 player online battles....isn't that a form of a MMO?

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by Insuber

As far as I know and practice everyday, company business decisions are very often determined by customers' feedbacks, opinion polls, marketing intelligence. This forum is a window on CoD's customer base, don't you think that a prudent management would take into account those 200 forum members orientation when deciding where to put their bets? I would do so, at any rate.

Cheers!

Yeah - that's usually how most businesses run. Without their customers they don't really have much of a business. And obviously without a good product they don't really have much of a customer base.

[addman]

Originally Posted by Insuber

As far as I know and practice everyday, company business decisions are very often determined by customers' feedbacks, opinion polls, marketing intelligence. This forum is a window on CoD's customer base, don't you think that a prudent management would take into account those 200 forum members orientation when deciding where to put their bets? I would do so, at any rate.

Cheers!

If I wanted to make more money I would see what the competition was doing and use their winning recipe spiced with something better of my own and something that the competition isn't doing, in this case CoD has and edge in FM/DM and many other areas. Now add a pinch of MMO and BOOM! you have a deeper and more realistic MMO than the competition. People will get bored quickly of World of Warplanes and start looking for a deeper experience, IL-2 MMO takes them in with open arms = $/€

The big wigs don't care about some forum members, lol! you have very high thoughts about the importance of the keyboard warriors around here. They look at numbers and how to improve numbers, not about cater to a small group of elitist simmers.

P.S Won't post anything more in here until there is an official statement.

[Force10]

Originally Posted by addman

If I wanted to make more money I would see what the competition was doing and use their winning recipe spiced with something better of my own and something that the competition isn't doing, in this case CoD has and edge in FM/DM and many other areas. Now add a pinch of MMO and BOOM! you have a deeper and more realistic MMO than the competition. People will get bored quickly of World of Warplanes and start looking for a deeper experience, IL-2 MMO takes them in with open arms = $/€

The big wigs don't care about some forum members, lol! you have very high thoughts about the importance of the keyboard warriors around here. They look at numbers and how to improve numbers, not about cater to a small group of elitist simmers.

P.S Won't post anything more in here until there is an official statement.

I would agree that the customers that bought COD are, and have been, something that hasn't concerned them much.