Friday 2011-01-21 Dev. update and Discussion

[Wutz]

Originally Posted by JG52Uther

I'm quite surprised all the negative posts are actually allowed,on an official forum.Since the announcement of the release they seem worse,and appear to be building up in to some sort of frenzy,for some weird unexplained reason.
I would like to request that the moderators jump on it a bit more,because it is getting to the stage where it could cost sales,because someone new to this forum,looking for info on CoD,will just think its carp,and forget about it.
Oh,and +1 to what El Aurens said.

Absolutely agree! Send the notorious whiners on a holiday!

[zauii]

We could use some dedicated moderators around here indeed.
I am sick of all the redicilous negativity and whiners, whomever thinks IL2 is even close to CoD needs to have their head examined, its a reason for why the created a whole new engine for crying out loud.

[Lensman_1]

Well here's my considered opinion and I hope it's balanced.

I am REALLY looking forward to experiencing this application. I've been waiting many years to see it and I've been using IL-2 since almost day 1 of its release.
The vast majority of screenshots, descriptions, video clips and answers to questions that Mr Maddox and 1C have provided over the last few months and years show a very interesting air combat simulation that is a huge leap ahead of the original IL-2 and that is the foundation for a sustainable future and great entertainment. The Collector's Edition set looks like a very well thought out selection of items that should appeal to any one of us here and that was a surprise. I have every expectation that COD will be a success with the sim community and probably beyond.

However:
I find it odd that the official promotional video is not as polished as it could be. Regardless of the motivation no other major release promotion would deliberately tone down the graphical quality. You present your product at its best, that's basic marketing. Despite that it still looks very good.
Secondly, as has been commented upon to death, the IL-2 COD name is poor and ill advised but that won't affect sales.
Lastly, I'm very very surprised at the lack of comment from Mr Maddox about the official release. To provide extremely well received weekly updates with extensive follow ups but then when the release is announced say effectively nothing on the subject is most peculiar. I'd have hoped that Mr Maddox would have had a prepared bit of text stating his pleasure at finally being able to offer us a pre-order and explaining the products on offer (the collector's set contents etc) and also some details of the final application. I for one am in awe of what Mr Maddox and his development team have achieved both with IL-2 and COD but I'm perturbed that the final announcement of availability had no fanfare or excitement. It's not what I expected to happen here on the forum.

In conclusion ... the release could have been handled a little better but the actual product, the thing we've all been waiting for all these years, should and most probably will be exceptionally good. We should all just be really thankful that there's a product at all and offer all the support to Oleg's team that we can.

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Lensman_1

Well here's my considered opinion and I hope it's balanced.

I am REALLY looking forward to experiencing this application. I've been waiting many years to see it and I've been using IL-2 since almost day 1 of its release.
The vast majority of screenshots, descriptions, video clips and answers to questions that Mr Maddox and 1C have provided over the last few months and years show a very interesting air combat simulation that is a huge leap ahead of the original IL-2 and that is the foundation for a sustainable future and great entertainment. The Collector's Edition set looks like a very well thought out selection of items that should appeal to any one of us here and that was a surprise. I have every expectation that COD will be a success with the sim community and probably beyond.

However:
I find it odd that the official promotional video is not as polished as it could be. Regardless of the motivation no other major release promotion would deliberately tone down the graphical quality. You present your product at its best, that's basic marketing. Despite that it still looks very good.
Secondly, as has been commented upon to death, the IL-2 COD name is poor and ill advised but that won't affect sales.
Lastly, I'm very very surprised at the lack of comment from Mr Maddox about the official release. To provide extremely well received weekly updates with extensive follow ups but then when the release is announced say effectively nothing on the subject is most peculiar. I'd have hoped that Mr Maddox would have had a prepared bit of text stating his pleasure at finally being able to offer us a pre-order and explaining the products on offer (the collector's set contents etc) and also some details of the final application. I for one am in awe of what Mr Maddox and his development team have achieved both with IL-2 and COD but I'm perturbed that the final announcement of availability had no fanfare or excitement. It's not what I expected to happen here on the forum.

In conclusion ... the release could have been handled a little better but the actual product, the thing we've all been waiting for all these years, should and most probably will be exceptionally good. We should all just be really thankful that there's a product at all and offer all the support to Oleg's team that we can.

Regarding the promotional video, its only "low res. old stuff" to those of us who have been lurking arround theese forums for years on end, not to thoose who see this game for the first time thinking "maby i should try flight simming, i wonder whats out there for me to choose from"

Thoose are the people promo vids are for , not us junkies in here, because frankly, if anyone, after all theese years and screens/videos, still needs to be convinced of what CoD will be then this game is proppably NOT for "u" (not u specificly), and never will be. And thats perfectly ok to, we cant all have the game of our dreams.

[BadAim]

......at least we have some entertainment here while we wait for something to really bitch about. (reaches for another handful of popcorn)