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

[vranac]

Well, I don't know you but I can conclude something from your writing. You had ancient PC when CloD came out. You read forums, Oleg stated many times that the new sim will be very demanding. What have you expected with 4-5 years old PC (CPU 6 years) ?
But I prefer to believe to my friends whom I helped to set up the game.

I'll tell you one analogy. I started playing il2 online with old and slow PC and it was almost unplayable. So I decided to upgrade. Some Athlon AMD CPU from good batch and OC'ed it to 2.1 GHz, very fast for that time (Intel was faster but AMD was better in games then). I bought midrange GPU 6600 also chosen model which could run on frequencies like 6600gt.
That was decent midrange PC of that time. And you know what, when I joined populated server 50-60 pilots with some flak around I got clap, clap, clap... 15 fps.
And that was 4-5 years after the release of il2. Only release of dual core CPU's solved that.
On the other hand with CloD I upgraded before the release with fast CPU and midrange GPU and had no problems at all. There were bugs, but most of those affected mission makers. I have nice collection of tracks from that spring summer.

You're right about that CloD sold badly. My opinion is that there is no more than few 10.000 flight sim fans out there and 1C expectations was huge.

Do you think BoS will sell 200.000 copies ? I really doubt that.
That number is from Loft.
They'll be lucky if they hit 50.000.