Press Ministry Requests $17M for 1C's Patriotic Computer Game

[bugmenot]

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read the "patriotism" and "falsifications of history" part.

I'm sure Putin Jugend crowd would love a game like that nevertheless.

[dduff442]

Well I hear Burnt by the Sun 2 was a huge flop in Russian cinemas recently. The public aren't too enthusiastic about anything too official in the cultural realm.

Just about every industrialised country has incentives and tax breaks for cultural works of different sorts. The press release at the top of the thread could easily be a grant application to the film board of any number of countries. I did smile a bit at 'falsifiers of history'. When did they stop being 'bourgeois'?

Some of the replies in this thread (and one or two others recently) are way over the top. I don't see anything in this to justify mindless abuse of anybody's country. One or two posters seem to be on the look out for any excuse... not nice.

[Oleg Maddox]

Originally Posted by dduff442

Well I hear Burnt by the Sun 2 was a huge flop in Russian cinemas recently. The public aren't too enthusiastic about anything too official in the cultural realm.

The film is incorrect in many things. In myu opinion - wrong fiolm from historical representation. Even my wife had dual opinion... about story line - like, about how other things are prepresent (read historical) - something close to the words very bad.

In Russia and (really in world at the moment) in fligth sims the WWII theme is doing just one team - it our team.
The goal is to make everything not overwritten and most possible correct.
The main principle - to do not rewrite history that we may see in some other games, books, etc. That is not only about western, but Russian modern production as well.
The main thing and my goal - gameplay should represent as more real things, as it is possible. This is about amount, technical parameters of units, etc...
Il-2 set the first such parameters in the word. Sow series shoulkd rise its bar mor higher.
I think you like Il-2 not for the nice graphics and amount of aircraft. But how it is done in priciple.

My English isn't perfect, but I hope you all understand what I mean.

[AndyJWest]

I think we can understand you well, Oleg. Thanks for the clarification.

And I for one totally agree with your approach, and your principles.

[Viking]

Thank you Oleg for clarifying, but if the money is needed I still think it’s a god idea for the government to lend a helping hand. The benefits will be mutual for enterprise and nation.

[robtek]

I wish 1c and OM all the money they need to produce the best flightsim ever!
As long as they can keep OM's principles as told before.