IL2 and Sound Modding

[jasonbirder]

Actually......The supposed "requoted/exagerated/twisted" online to offline ratio is getting very tired. Fact of the matter is, anything even vaguely resembling the numbers folks like to quote came from a time and region where online activity had not developed fully....In the short run of this sim for ALL area's internet connections have dramatically improved.

How dramatic?.....From none to cable/wireless/satellite in many cases.....Along with that came greater online activity in all regards, and that applies to this sim as well.

Fact of the matter is, no matter how much so many here want to keep shouting how they're "100% offline" posting away here and seen on HL or elsewhere regularly, nobody is buying into the rediculous "95% offline" bunk.

If you play online AT ALL....you're an onliner....That most likely makes about 70-80+% of the player base

Why requoted/twisted/exagerated? Presumably because they don't fit your "online agenda" there is plenty of evidence pointing to the fact that the majority of sales are to Offliners...none whatsoever to the theory that onliners make up the majority of users...
Do you have any evidence to back up your assertion...other than the somewhat desperate sounding "anyone that has ever been online ever, even for a tiny little bit, is an onliner - because I say so"
Oleg himself stated that his user base was 95% Online
Countless industry polls across all genres show that Online players make up approximately 5% of game sales
Even online polls show that the majority of players are offliners...and i'll leave it for anyone to work out where the bias inherent in that comes from...
Finally...with sales of c400K units if Onliners are in the majority...where the hell are they all?

I don't doubt that there is widespread high-speed broadband access in the more prosperous parts of NW Europe and the United States, but IL2 has always been a game with a broader geographic appeal and you can hardly extrapolate that model across central and south America or Eastern Europe or Russia can you?