A final message from Luthier

[salmo]

Thankyou Ilya. Your work has been much appreciated. Good luck to you for the future.

[Richie]

I think the best thing I can say is that this simulator series IL-2 Sturmovik has made this past eleven years a great experience. Even when I went to the Electronics Boutique to buy the original game in November 201 I almost killed myself in that stupid old K car. Someday in the old folks home when we are all in our 80's and 90's in diapers and listening to the Stones, Cream and Led Zeppelin we can remember the days when we flew with AD, Elanski, Pope, Willie, Herr-Spray, Graf, Venny, Aristo, Josh, Freitag..to name only a few.


Thank you Ilya for all of the good times and good luck to you.

[|450|Devil]

Luthier - thank you for all you have contributed to the il2 series. It has given me great enjoyment over a very long period.

All the very best for the future.

[FlyingShark]

Thank you for everything, Luthier, I wish you all the best for the future.

Always sad to see somebody leaving like this.

~S~

[Lemmi]

I wish You the Best.
And once again - Thank You.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by luthier

I loved every second of it.

Ilya “Luthier” Shevchenko

Good luck Luthier!

[Mustang]

Is very sad day for me
Ilya Thanks for everything and for your hard work!
the latest patch is a great achievement, I decided to buy, then I play online smooth.
The project was huge.

"The Channel"
Water in the middle ................and goodbye to ground combat.. "Marketing" ??
The main mistake was the choice of esenario. ( Channel and London)

Make a Shooter game, only British against Germans.
Is doomed to failure for lack of buyers
How Many Russians, would buy that Shooter game??? - Marketing ??
Ok the shooters are popular, any child under 12 years tightened the trigger....

But
Cliff lack
Rusian Planes
NO P40
NO P39
NO P38
NO P51
How many guys like me, was going to buy the game ??

VVS vs Luftwaffe
USAF vs Lutwaffe
With these aircraft had been marketing a success.

Had a huge problem with common sense.
We must choose a popular Combat esenario.

Best Regards and Good Luck Ilya.

[PeterPanPan]

Very sad to see you and presumably a lot of the rest of the team go. Such a shame that despite all the passion and desire, it came to this. I believe your intentions were always the best. Uncertain times for us all but hopefully, as a certain Vera Lynn once sang, we'll meet again one sunny day. All the best to you for whatever the future may hold.

[TUCKIE_JG52]

Luthier, don't let the frustration possess you, you must go on and keep working on other simulation projects after some necessary rest. You live simulation like no other. Now you got the experience. You can analyse it all. But we want you back. If it's alongside with Oleg, much better!

Congrats for CoD, I'm one of these who entirely liked... yes, including the Su-26.

My respect!

[Fenice_1965]

I play simulators from the Times of Chuck jeager's air combat and secret weapons of luftwaffe. Nothing can be' compared to what I had from Il2. I became part of a community, of a squad, Made new friends, met fantastic people, increased my history knowledge....
I only hope that the spirit of that sim (and not only the brand) will be' transferred somewhere and it is not lost.
Thx luthier and oleg for all you gave to us.