Will You Pre-Order?
 

With lots of other great games coming out around September 4th such as Modern Warfare 2, DiRT 2... Will you Pre-Order IL-2 Sturmovik Birds Of Prey?

I've already pre-ordered it.

where from sasquatch?

Gamestop. Free t-shirt FTW! LOL.

Got it at the top of my Gamefly cue. Haven't seen anywhere to pre-order it or buy it for that matter.

Rev:mrgreen:

nice, i live in the UK, so i guess i'll have to stick with GAME, i get 2 free in-game planes though :)

The downloadable planes are the 'P47D' and 'TA152H1'. These planes will be available to be flown in all multiplayer modes. One code gains access to both planes.

Nope.


I generally don't pre-order anything, unless it is a game coming with limited edition hardware, such as Steel Battalion or Ace Combat 6.

I've never once not been able to find a game the day it comes out.

Same, because I would be buying the game at the same price on launch day anyway, so getting two free aircraft for putting down a pre-order seems good value.

Hopefully the planes will be avaible later...

If I understand right, these planes will be available to purchase from as soon as the game comes out, and the pre-order is just giving you them for free.

For games like this, I find no reason to pre order; Gamestop will give you the pre order swag anyways, and they'll have it in stock no matter what.

I WILL BE BUYING IT ON RELEASE DAY THOUGH.;)

You have to pay for them ?!?!

Yes, the only way to get these planes without paying for them is by pre-ordering the game.

You dont get it here.
And how do you know?

Gah, this seems to be a new "thing" for Game – downloadable extras if you pre-order a game from them. (Batman: Arkham Asylum, Forza 3, and now BoP.) In all cases though they say that this offer is valid in the UK only, and since I live in Germany I'd therefore be taking a chance that I don't get the content if I order from them.

Bah, I already have Birds of Prey pre-ordered at Amazon (along with DiRT 2, which releases the dame day). Now I wonder whether I should switch my order to Game on the off chance that I get the bonus content.

There isn't a deal to get those planes via pre-order in the states? That sucks for you.

Anton has mentioned several times that you get these planes by pre-ordering, the offer is also mentioned on the Game store website and since you have to download them off Live Marketplace they wouldn't be much of a bonus if you didn't need to pre-order to get them free.

Business decision. They are trying to make some extra money by selling some of the planes separately. A lot of other companies do the same, so I guess we shouldn't be too surprised. At least it means we should be able to look forward to a steady stream of DLC.

just looked on Game site and noticed the pre-order bonus is not advertised on ps3 version

Yeah, I really don't like the way they have deliberately cut two aircraft from the game to sell separately. I don't mind paying for content they create after the game comes out, but this is just a rip-off.

yes it annoys me but ive gotten so used to it now, what with many other devs doing the exact same thing, sometimes much worse things being cut.

if i cant get the pre-order bonus i will certainly fork out the extra cash for those extra planes.

but dont get me wrong i still think its not a good idea cutting them out.

I hate it when people cut things out of a game and then make you buy them after the game comes out.

it'll only get worse..

Cod 4 - 1 map pack

Cod 5 - 2 map packs

I shudder to think what MW2 will be like.

As for BOP, it's a little disappointing but not unexpected, and the bonus planes is probably just to boost sales and awareness as DIRT2 is out same time and POMS like their rally games...

MW2 November release...looks more like MWv1.1 to me but thats another thread and FORUM!
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yes its definately not unexpected of them to do this.

Oh and its not just you Poms, its us Brits too

I expect almost every new game in the future will make you pay foe extra things.

yup, its inevitable. Its all about the money

So true. I just wish they would just make all the extra stuff free or even better just put everything in the game so there wont be anymore paying for extra stuff. Why must they take our money this way.:(

Profit.

I dont really have a problem with paying for DLC. but when its paying for stuff that has been cut out and re-applied later i do think it's wrong.

Then again, if i worked for Marketing i would definately say this is the right thing to do.

Of couse anyone in marketing would do it because it would get them more money.

I stand corrected..

Poms, Jockos, Paddies and (I forget what the aussies call the Welsh?)

funny- I lived in Scotland for 6 years and always got annoyed with people using "English" in a context when British should have been used...And then I go and make a similar error myself....:( (albeit in a "trying to learn the lingo of the locals" kind of way)

humblest apologies
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lol no need for an apology, we all make that mistake

I wonder if Anton will tell what planes might be in DLC.

well we have two confirmed, i would also like to get a little taster to what might be coming further down the line

Me too. Maybe the could add some planes from IL2 1946 as DLC.

its a possability.

One plane i would absolutely love to use is the Lancaster, God i would give my right arm to have that in the game

I would love to see a Mitchel. That is one of my favorite planes.

me too..my late Father was a navigator on Shackletons...

hopefully also the mosquito-


SPECULATION: I kinda reckon that the Pacific Theatres might well come as map packs (1 for pearl harbour-1 for guadacanal etc etc) along with "Plane Packs" specific to the theatre...if the game engine pans out to everyones expectations then why re-invent the wheel? Too many US and Jap gamers to ignore...
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oh yea the good ol B25 id have to give my left arm for that one

i guess im gonna be playing the game with my face at this rate

Modern Warfare 2 comes out two months after BoP. And personally, I don't think there is enough that is new to warrent $60 from me. That's Gamefly all the way.

And hell yeah I ordered. I work nights, so when I wake up that afternoon it will be at my door. Now that's convienience. No free time wasted, and no gas burnt.

That was good.:grin:

i like to hear about peoples family history in the war, its nice to hear about them. The mosquito would be a fantastic addition *Fingers crossed*

you have made an extremely good point in that speculation

I too would like to see a Mosquito. I love flying them in my dads sim game.

very much post war..he navigated Avro Shackletons out of Malta (RAF Luqa I think) late 50s early 60s...I guess looking for subs. They're in the process of restoring one at duxford (which I had to see one more time before emigrating)

but he used to tell me about running away from home as a kid to watch the Gloster Meteors train.

I'm trying to get my mum to digitise a photo of him beside a Jet provost trainer but she's no Bill Gates...
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ahhh i see. i wish i knew stuff like that but all i know is of one of my grandads fought at normandy. the only real connection to aircraft that i know of was another of my grandads was an artist and painted a spitfire and then presented it to RJ Mitchell himself, never been able to locate the painting though

I've been to the war graves at Normandy- respect...
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i would love to go there to pay my respects and will one day, i have a map of the War graves of which my grandfathers resting place is marked

Me at Overloon.

Map packs for the Pacific would be nice. At a guess the maps would come bundled with some Pacific theatre aircraft such as the Zero and Wildcat, and then there might be other aircraft available separately.

There are a couple of other expansions that could be done this way, such as a Korean War expansion pack. The same basic game engine could be used with no changes, so it would be no harder than creating some new maps and aircraft. I would love to be able to fly the Sabre and MiG-15, and a wide variety of prop engined aircraft also took part in the Korean War

Preordered it already at 30 quid. Not bad.

I think you might be wrong here. I'm from Russia and I did get downloadable pre-order extras from GAME before. I think it was for Fable 2 Pub Games, I surely did.

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Today I preordered IL2 and Forza3. *YAY!* Now I have 6 weeks to modify my Saitek with those add-on buttons haha.