what is the offical name of this new sim?

[Blackdog_kt]

So, a guy who's been out of touch with the IL-2 world comes here and asks "what's going on with this new sim guys?" and what does he get?

A forum regular responds in an ok tone stating his opinion that the game has quite a few months of development to go. Another regular then explodes into a shower of rage. Then they take it up among themselves to battle it out in a case of "he said, she said" escalating to the point of clinging at whatever possible straw to try and out each other as the one who's wrong.

I don't know about you, but game or no game, if i was a new or returning player/virtual pilot, such a poor show from the forum regulars would leave me greatly discouraged from participating in such a community even if i bought the game

We all know Tree is a pessimist, but that doesn't detract from the fact that he's got a right to state his opinions. I don't necessarily agree with him but as long as he's not insulting people and going ballistic i don't have a problem with him either.

Then again, that doesn't change the fact that so far he's been right in his predictions. Does anyone of you have SoW on his hard-drive? Did anyone come up and say "Tree you were right when 2 years ago you were saying we won't see SoW until 2010, i'm sorry" as a means of bridging the gap? Yup, guessed so.

I know that someone will say his negativity is rubbing off the wrong way on people and it's bad publicity for the sim. So what? Did my opinion on the quality of SoW change because of Tree's opinion? No, it didn't. Can he or anyone else make me not buy the sim? Again, no. So what's the freakin big deal? As far as i'm concerned, the only way for me not to buy SoW would be if SoW got released as an incomplete product with a stupid DRM implementation.

In a similar fashion, there's loads of people criticizing everything from the rivets to the shape of trees. Well, they don't influence my decisions and i don't influence theirs, we're all just excited and talking about what we like and dislike and guess what, different people can't like the same things all the time.

To think that Tree alone can make or break the sales of SoW is either overestimating him or underestimating the development team. Come on, let's all have some common sense here and give the devs some credit

[furbs]

100% spot on post mate.

[robtek]

Oh no, just as it gets interesting and i've placed the popcorn by my side someone has to be reasonable.
SHAME ON YOU!

[zakkandrachoff]

for me, STORM OF WAR is not the correct name for a flight simulator. this is a cover i think.

will be better MADDOX FLIGHT SIMULATOR, MADDOX SIMULATOR GAME or maybe a russian name will be very nice. russian name without translation will be a success! the people are tired of shit english propagandistic names of products and all are shit.

oleg, think in russian, not english.