This game had almost absolutely no marketing. The website was horrible, had no info about the game really either. They even had a facebook page. That's FREE. And they could barely update that with any juicy tidbits. Twitter?
When I'm on facebook and websites I look at what other sim publishers are doing and it is so much better than CloD. World of Planes website is very cool and informative. Train Simulator updates their facebook almost every day with screenshots and info from the devs. RoF Jason writes great blogs. He's a great salesmen the way to talks about needing our cash to keep their sim going. I believe it too.
I think if they release the game in a better state in Fall of '11 in time with the BoB and have a better marketing campaign it sells better. I really hope they learn from their mistakes with BoM.
I do agree with all these sims having a trickle down effect. A kid gets into World of Warplanes, or World of Planes, Microsoft Flight. He then realizes he wants more realism, or more planes. Then gets into IL2 46 for cheap, then wants even more hardcore and gets info CloD. That path led me here when I got hooked on Air Warrior on AOL in the mid 90s
02-13-2012, 10:42 PM
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