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Originally Posted by cheesehawk
I actually believe the market for this sim is greater in Russia than here in the US. We don't see as many of them online, as they have their own servers seperate from Steam, but Repka, which is heavily Russian populated as on par with ATAG's population, which is the main hangout for everyone else. Seeing the amount of WW2 games coming out of Russia, I'd be hesitant to say they have a "weaker" market. It seems they are perhaps more into sims than we in the west are, unless you count MW4/Skyrim a sim...
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The market in Russia is probably the biggest single market. If they make a profit selling in Russia then everything ontop of that, Western Europe, USA and the rest of the world, is gravy. Also, don't forget, they charged about 4x more in the West than in Russia when the game was released.
It would make a lot of sense/cents to keep the developement chronological. That way they can use upgraded aircraft models and objects from the earlier theatres. The other way around would also work but online it would suck having the more powerfull versions first. The older models would not be used as much.
I really would've liked to have seen Spanish Civil war, Poland invasion and Blitzkrieg May 40 before the BoB. I know it will never happen. Too many different countries and too many different archaic aircraft types. In the Netherlands alone they still had many types of biplanes from the twenties and thirties in service in May 40.
If they go the commercial way I think it'll be something like, BoM, Med/Africa, Western Europe 43/45, Pacific and to close if out, Korea . I'll buy em all and in 2017 they'll release the Blue-ray version: Il2, Fire in the Sky: 1936-1952. They can have third party devs fill in the blanks. I can't wait for the likes of A2A or Real Flight to develope aircraft for this sim. Might actually bring some of the FSX crowd over. Can you imagine an A2A accusim server on full real?