The news about RRG from Oleg

[CrazySchmidt]

I'd try any adaptation to the SoW series including a Star Wars version if it was on offer. It's the whole flight dynamics and graphical excellence thing that has me landed with 1C.

I couldn't give a moments thought to online game play quite frankly, apart from a few sessions with my Dad and brother which was quite fun.

CS.

[Bobb4]

Originally Posted by CrazySchmidt

I couldn't give a moments thought to online game play quite frankly, apart from a few sessions with my Dad and brother which was quite fun.

CS.

Frankly until you have shot or been shot down online you have not truly experienced IL2 period.
Until you have flown your bomber through waves of slash attacking fighters, all who know how to decimate your bomber in a single burst you have not experienced Il2.
No matter how good the AI, the proof of any pilot is his ability to survive online and the success of Il2 in part is owed significantly to the online community who have kept IL2 alive.
Storm of War Bob will live and die by it's ability to deliver online playability.
Literally thousands of people fly Il2 online every day.
Il2 1946 has 154 servers worldwide with players from Russia, China, Japan and many more countries.

COD4 was released as an online game with a single player game attached. This is a new trend. When Call of Duty was first released way back when, it was a single player game with an online game attatched.
Mods like Il2 commander and its ilk have opened up the Il2 experience to millions.
I would be very surprised if Storm of War is not released with such tools built in and online play a major feature of the game.
Game developers have realised the value of the online market, look at the success of the Battlefield series...
All I pray is that they have the ability to deliver to both markets.

[Theshark888]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

Storm of War Bob will live and die by it's ability to deliver online playability.

I don't agree Bobb. The only way 1C will make a breakthrough hit is by doing the offline game correctly-which was kinda a problem with IL2. Hopefully a lesson was learned and more creativity and less engineering is put into SOW. I am talking making money for 1C not still seeing people playing an "old" game online 7 years after release!!

Sure, most of the 90% of offline players have probably moved away from IL2 but they are the ones who brought in the money. The 10% of online players are the real fans and the ones who keep the passion alive though.

[Bobb4]

Originally Posted by Theshark888

I don't agree Bobb. The only way 1C will make a breakthrough hit is by doing the offline game correctly-which was kinda a problem with IL2. Hopefully a lesson was learned and more creativity and less engineering is put into SOW. I am talking making money for 1C not still seeing people playing an "old" game online 7 years after release!!

Sure, most of the 90% of offline players have probably moved away from IL2 but they are the ones who brought in the money. The 10% of online players are the real fans and the ones who keep the passion alive though.

Valid point, never quite thought of it like that...
I stand corrected.

[jasonbirder]

the success of Il2 in part is owed significantly to the online community

The success of IL2 is down to a few thousand people that bought the game and fly it online...not the hundreds of thousands that bought it and never fly it/flew it online??? How does that work then? Do all you onliners stuff envelopes full of roubles and post them off to Oleg every week?

Storm of War Bob will live and die by it's ability to deliver online playability

I'd have thought it lived and died by its ability to appeal to thousands of purchasers...Not a tiny commercialy insignificant minority...

Literally thousands of people fly Il2 online every day

And if they had been the only people that bought it...it wouldn't have paid 1C's electricty bill...let alone kept the company in business

[robtek]

There it is again
This thread is hijacked for the old online vs offline campaign.
plz stop that and start a extra thread if you feel the need to say your thing about that.