to developers: how to boost sales

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by Cwl

laugh all you want but having a recognisable name is VITAL in the videogame industry. its called brand awareness.

a good example is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

that is the Sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Activision originally dropped the Call of Duty part to name it Modern Warfare 2.

But they re-added it a few months later after research said that people did not recognise it as much.

therefore its important that a game has a good name, something recognisable and familiar.

'Spitfire: Birds of Prey'

or

'P51 Mustang : Birds of Prey'

would certainly boost sales.

Urmmm....... your example just disagreed with your original post lol.

"IL-2 Sturmovik" is the series name. Just like "Call of duty". They kept the call of duty name for Modern Warfare 2 because people recognise the name because of the previous games in thar series. The words "Call of duty" are otherwise meaningless to most of the buyers.

If Birds of prey didn't use the "IL-2 Sturmovik" brand name, the many people who have played and enjoyed the IL-2 PC games would have no idea this is by the same people and would just dismiss it as an arcade game.