The real IL2 focus group (Everyone come in here)

[guiltyspark]

Originally Posted by Saturat

Please man, you know nothing. The games go gold about one month bf release. If they add anything now they have to change the user interface, redesign the manual and maybe do the testing again. Adding anything to the code can cause bugs.
Anton gave some good reasons, like it or not you'll have to accept it so just stop it
(and dont make me sound like your mom again)

um , no

a game goes gold a week or two before shipping to retail

And he gave no other reasons to get rid of it then some confused noobs they hired to play the game who for specific reasons could not have been fans of IL2 or they would throw off the focus testing.

[Saturat]

Originally Posted by guiltyspark

um , no

a game goes gold a week or two before shipping to retail

And he gave no other reasons to get rid of it then some confused noobs they hired to play the game who for specific reasons could not have been fans of IL2 or they would throw off the focus testing.

http://xbox.joystiq.com/2007/08/29/i...has-gone-gold/
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55239
check the dates
also

Originally Posted by Anton Yudintsev

"...And adding too much choises for MP isn't also good enough - imagine 16 different sessions with different settings and only 2-3 people in each...."

[guiltyspark]

Originally Posted by Saturat

http://xbox.joystiq.com/2007/08/29/i...has-gone-gold/
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55239
check the dates
also

the two biggest game releases in recent history

k

how about an accurate example?

[Saturat]

Originally Posted by guiltyspark

the two biggest game releases in recent history

k

how about an accurate example?

yeah you are right, some extra time needed for the big games. turn it around tho, you find me an example of a PS3/xbox game that has been released faster than one month..

[Yossarian]

Originally Posted by guiltyspark

um , no

a game goes gold a week or two before shipping to retail

And he gave no other reasons to get rid of it then some confused noobs they hired to play the game who for specific reasons could not have been fans of IL2 or they would throw off the focus testing.

1. Games go gold 4-6 weeks before shipping. A week or two ??? how does the game get certified then manufactured and shipped in a week

2. Because the 'simmers' will make up about 5% of sales and 95% will be people that play on arcade settings so they are FAR more important to the success of this game than hardcore players. Thus for a focus group what sort of people would common sense and commercial sense tell you to 'focus' on, the 95% or the 5% ?

Be grateful that they have fought for and added a sim flight model mode for you when there was no commercial reason for them to do so and the publisher did not want it.

You could just not buy it, no one is forcing you to buy it.

[David603]

Having blackouts and redouts would be good as an option, but it is nowhere near a gamebreaker for me. I will buy and enjoy Birds of Prey on its release, and if we get blackouts and redouts later, then well and good.