Greetings Flight Simmers,

I am honored to announce that 777 Studios will be the North American publisher of Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War. Please see the press release below for the formal announcement. It has been a long 7 almost 8 months since first communicating with neoqb about this opportunity and I am thrilled that the June 8th release date is rapidly approaching. I think those that purchase ROF will be happy they did. neoqb has been a very easy and pragmatic partner to work with and I feel they have a lot to offer the sim community. I also believe future products from them will only build upon this strong foundation to create the pinnacle of WWI flight-sims. I hope you will decide to join in on the fun. Watch this space and the SimHQ forums for more info as I try to answer questions about the release.

Press Release





Sincerely,

Jason Williams
President
777 Studios
www.777studios.net

Whey! Congratulations to 777 Studios! An incredible title to have your name next to

Thank you Squog.

Jason

Great news!

Congrats Jason and 777 Studios.

Everyone is going to let out a huge W00T! in the ROF Forum and elsewhere.

Nice! Awesome cover art as well! Really looking forward to it!!

That's a nice surprise! Good luck both neoqb and 777!

Hot damn! Way to go!

Say when!


Edit: Well then, June 8, here we come!

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the support. We'll do our best to service ROF fans and make it available to all who want a copy.

Jason

Thanks Jason

This is good news. Do you have a location in Canada where ROF and be ordered or picked up?

Congrats. You going to do a special with GoGamer perhaps? Maybe something involving the game, the TIR5 and such? I am looking to upgrade and maybe a package may sweeten the deal.

Chivas,

CompuExpert who is the distributor sells to many retailers in Canada. As soon as I can confirm who will carry it I will alert my Canadian friends. But yes, it will be available in Canada.

Jason

Hi Tom,

Well, we are already offering Free USPS Priority Mail shipping at GoGamer to start. Here's the link.

http://www.gogamer.com/viewproduct.htm?productId=70882947

Not sure what other bundles we can do quite yet, but I'm sure in the future there will be something.

Jason

Big Congrats Jason.

I thought the price was going to be cheaper than 40 bucks for 2 (maybe 4) Planes. Guess not, now I really wonder how much they are going to charge per plane.

Thanks Destructis.

Master - no one from neoqb has officially said that it would be less that $40. There was a lot of conjecture, but never anything from anyone at neoqb that talked specific pricing. What you get here for your $39.90 out the door at GoGamer is well worth the price. I have been selling PC games for several years now and the JUNK I see other devs and pubs trying to pass off as a $40 or $50 title is sickening. ROF is the bedrock of a whole new line of flight-sim products and if you can't ring $40 worth of fun out of the Campaign or Multiplay then I don't know what to say. No one is forcing anyone to buy it.

That's the last I will say about pricing.

Jason

I read about it from my 48 hour madness mail and am going to order it tomorrow. As far the pricing, if I get 100 hours out of, I will be more than satisfied. The online play alone has the potential to tie up my evenings for quite a while. Co-op and PvP just sounds sweet.

I do have one question Jason. It does say it in the game information, how is the online play going to go? Is there dedicated servers or will there be player made servers? I would love to hear more about the way the online game portion is set up.

Thank you,
Dest

Please bear with me as I play devil's advocate on the topic of pricing.



True enough. No specific price mentioned. But we know what the price in Russia is simply by looking at the site selling it (link to shop posted by NeoQB: http://www.nd.ru/catalog/products/warinheaven1917/ ) Anyone can do the currency conversions from the price in Rubles stated on that site. The Limited Edition set is selling for approximately what the North American standard release is ... minus a few of the goodies.

There is a blog entry on the official NeoQB site proudly proclaiming "One world, One Price".

http://riseofflight.com/Blogs/April-2009/One-world---one-price.aspx



After reading that, I was happily expecting a price point in the US of roughly half what we're seeing.

Regardless of the math or symantics involved, I'll be buying RoF. The blog entries made were obviously a bit optimistic, and certainly not concrete evidence of the final pricing schemes necessary to see the product hit store shelves around the globe, but do reflect the good intentions NeoQB originally had. I won't fault them for trying.

Okay ... no more pricing talk from me either. In the end I'm just tickled that arrangements have been made to enable this sim to be in my hands much sooner than I was expecting. That is certainly worth the price of admission.

The Russians got to buy RoF relatively cheap (same with BlackShark, IL-2), seems their business model is to use them as mass beta testers. When Western markets open, it's usually after first patch.

Congratulations Jason! You da Man!

Congrats ,

Sweet news Jason, and congrats!

pre-ordered yesterday - thanks to Jason and 777 studios -

GoGamer has always handled my orders adroitly so no worries there

I have been looking forward to this sim just as I did the original Il2

Heres hoping it holds up as well as that one has over time.

Jason, are you confirming that 777/Gogamer will be the first to have the sim ?
My throat hurt when i hear "Pre-order", the last time i did i received my good after my home town store..

Are you going to have the Digital Online version ? when?

Waiting for your answer to decide, Thank you

Gozr,

At this point your best bet is to go with GoGamer. They will ship first to U.S addresses. The digital version is not coming for a few weeks. You are just in Berkely, GoGamer is in SoCal. GoGamer is shipping Priority Mail, not Media Mail and for free. Should be a very short arrival time for you. Sorry you have to pay our new higher sales tax though. :-(

Jason

Jason,
Thank you .. well the price is good i have nothing to complain about. For the fun we will have, to help the dev and distributors for the flight community.. well worth it.
S~
Thx I will order tomorrow then.

What is the release date? I thought it was June 8, but my pre-order still says processing. I have not seen a post that says the date has changed. Anybody?

-Skater

Yes, I posted that the date changed. I changed the ad up top on SimHQ, but Doug has not posted it yet. The release date had been pushed to the 17th.

Jason

Done. F5