Jason asked that I post this because he is sitting in economy class flying home from a business trip in Taiwan.
He will answer questions after the flight back and some sleep on Friday.


Rise of Flight: Iron Cross Edition

June 3, 2010 – 777 Studios is proud to announce that the award-winning WWI flight-simulation Rise of Flight is back and it’s bigger and better than ever with Rise of Flight: Iron Cross Edition! It will be released in North America in boxed form on June 29th, 2010. Rise of Flight: Iron Cross Edition will be available at major PC game retailers such as GoGamer.com, Amazon.com, Fry’s Electronics and others to be named soon. It will be distributed by CompuExpert. The MSRP is $49.99.

Download the full Press Announcement

Thumbs-up. Nice way to get some fresh interest generated and allow folks to jump into RoF with all (or most of?) the content the rest of us have paid for a little at a time over the past year.

I know I haven't read the release very closely yet, but is there anything new for existing RoF owners, and if so will that content be available to existing owners via standard update of the game (excluding any new aircraft that will need to be purchased separately) ??

Am wondering what the minimum PC requirements will be: the same or higher? Now flying and enjoying RoF with the bear minimum PC and hoping that that the Iron Cross Edition will be the same.
Any hope?

BadBud
www.simflite.com

Looks like it's a "Gold Edition" with more flyables inclusive in the price.

Quite a deal if one doesn't own the sim yet.

I did some math, and the included flyables, if bought seperately, come up to $45.72 (if one pre-orders). With an MSRP of 50 USD, it's a no brainer.

So current owners of ROF won't get anything from purchasing this, correct?

Apparently correct. New-comers to the sim get a nice little nudge however.

I suppose this means that the DFC version is somewhere down the line, in a year or so??

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Does this mean I should start my RoF disk collection?? Only fitting since I have :

For the Red Baron series: RB, RB2, RB3D (four or five actually), plus several disks of mods and tools

For Il-2 series: IL-2, Forgotten Battles, Ace Expansion Pack, Pacific Fighters, 1946, plus expansion disks (PE-2, Battle Over Europe, etc., etc.) and countless home made disks of missions, campaigns, skins, mods and tools.

The answer is obviously "yes", since I am apparently a collector of things related to my favorite flight sims...

Hello Everyone.

Just arrived back from Asia and figured I would address some questions about ROF:ICE before getting to sleep in my own bed for the first time in a month.

ROF:ICE is the same product you have now and both versions are fully compatible with each other. ROF:ICE is simply all of the patches and enhancements you currently have to download (which can be tedious) included on the disk in new packaging. To spice up the initial offering we added 4 more flyables to the package and as a special bonus we added one more plane as a Launch Bonus (Retailers like this kind of thing). Which Bonus plane you get depends on which retailer you buy from. And the Free Bonus plane will be for a limited time.

ROF:ICE is a product designed primarily for North American retailers. However, it will also eventually be released in Europe and it will also be released in Digital form, but not for a few weeks later after it is established in retail. ROF:ICE will become the standard SKU for ROF moving forward and replace the original ROF Ver. 1.0 Box at retailers. There are few Ver. 1.0 boxes left in the channels and they will most likely go on sale to move them to make room for ROF:ICE. Also, the MSRP for ROF:ICE is $49.99. Slightly higher due to the added planes and new packaging and posters etc. in the box. Plus, it would not be very fair to those that already bought it and purchased additional planes if we offered it at the same or lower price. We hope to do something for current users who already paid full-price and bought some planes, but details on that will come later. Also, the average user has bought 2 or so planes from our store. Some have bought all and some none. So, we averaged it out and decided that the new MSRP should be close to the average amount we know most ROF users are willing to spend. The $49.99 MSRP is very close to that average. We felt that is a pretty fair way to do it. The general business model of ROF remains the same with some planes in main SKU and others as add-ons.

A lot of feedback from you the community was taken into account when we created ROF:ICE and it is much closer to what most of you expected at original launch a year ago. So this is a good development for ROF at retail and it should bring you some more wingies to play with or shoot down! Again, this is the new standard edition of ROF. We had to name it something other than the original name so not to confuse people or retailers.

The Iron Cross represents, to me at least, the strength and toughness of the team to march on and keep fighting to being you a top-notch simulation under intense criticism and pressure. We hope you also recognize their hard work and wish us luck with the new edition.

More good stuff to come.

Jason

The box art is absolutely great - I never liked the original with the rather stressed looking pilot.

Hope it sells well!

Cheers,

Nick

Hey cool, but I'm dumbfounded about the awards won by this sim? Could it have been the award for "Best Incomplete Beta Released at Retail Price"?

Cool. I still have the Original RB3D Eric Lanz from Dynamix sent me after beta testing it.

I would buy ICE if it were signed by the developement team......