Announcement of the game "IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad"

[addman]

I see a lot of people are already judging a game that hasn't even been released yet maybe it's better to wait for the final product before initiating whining mode. Seriously you guys....

Oh BTW, I wrote the following for another thread but I'll just paste it in here for convenience.

I get the impression that there are still people living in an illusionary PC games landscape where a 40€ high-production cost/low sales niche game is financially viable. Have you tried PlanetSide 2? If not, download it -for free- from Steam, play it and try to comprehend that 1c is doing this to make money. The games industry is not some kind of charity ball where people sit and work their butts of for free.

Imagine if 777 only made RoF, kept supporting and updating it for years for free without any pay-per-plane/item system. Do you really think that they would be selling thousands upon thousands of copies of the game every month for several years sustained? No they wouldn't, no game does that, especially not flightsims which are the niche of the niche these days, except a select few super popular titles like Call of Duty etc. It's so easy to understand it, yet some of you can't grasp it. Without a steady cash-flow, how in the world would they be able to continue? No matter how good a game is, it will only sell a certain amount copies, period! You may hate it or love it, that doesn't matter, this IS the only way to keep a small gaming genre alive. Nobody's doing it to be evil, they do it for the necessity of profit, the cornerstone of capitalism. I guess at least the Americans on here should be able to grasp this.

I would like it to be as before where would get an expansion pack (which is basically just a bunch of DLC content packed into one really) every second year or so but I get why they are taking this route. So try to be a little supportive to the "new" developers in their future endeavours, many of you stood tall defending MG in every single "whining" thread before, how come you are so anti when we actually get someone who steps in and try to salvage the awesome IL-2 series that we have all played and loved for years? You should be grateful that someone took it upon themselves to develop the one thing we all love.

[ChrisDNT]

Sorry, but at least in the WWII sim world, pre-emptive whining has most of the times proved right. Sad but true.

[addman]

Originally Posted by ChrisDNT

Sorry, but at least in the WWII sim world, pre-emptive whining has most of the times proved right. Sad but true.

I don't know about that, I was personally thrilled about the launch of CloD before it was released despite a lot of suspicions from some forum members. I got quite a few hours of enjoyment of CloD but did it live up to the idea of a sim that I had? No. For some it did and that's cool.

[TomcatViP]

Addman, CoD was bugged for two years but still we managed to pull out some serious fun out of it. Now, RoF was UNPLAYABLE after 2 months !

[addman]

Originally Posted by TomcatViP

Addman, CoD was bugged for two years but still we managed to pull out some serious fun out of it. Now, RoF was UNPLAYABLE after 2 months !

Is RoF still unplayable and are people not getting any fun out of it?

[David Hayward]

RoF is a great game. I'm playing it online every day.

[addman]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

RoF is a great game. I'm playing it online every day.

I would too, if it was a WWII sim. I actually bought the iron cross edition on a sale but have only tried it a few times unfortunately.

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by addman

I would too, if it was a WWII sim. I actually bought the iron cross edition on a sale but have only tried it a few times unfortunately.

I'm just responding to people who say it's broken. It's definitely NOT broken. It's a fantastic game if you want to fly WW1 aircraft. If you want to complain about RoF flight models you can also do that, but it's very competitive.

[addman]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

I'm just responding to people who say it's broken. It's definitely NOT broken. It's a fantastic game if you want to fly WW1 aircraft. If you want to complain about RoF flight models you can also do that, but it's very competitive.

LOL! I let other people do the FM complaining about these games, there's no need for another "charts and curves expert", it's a very saturated group of people IMO. Also, I know next to nil about WWI kites.

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by addman

Is RoF still unplayable and are people not getting any fun out of it?

That kind of guys can have fun virtually piloting a flying bacon slice... Oh wait, most of the RoF FM are porked... Isn't it why ?