Wow, do you have reading comprehension issues or something? Go back over my post again and re-think your reply.

A lot of us were led to believe that it was 1C Publishing forcing Maddox Games to get the thing out the door in its current state. The understanding was that MG would work hard to fix our product and remain in our good graces. We bought the game because Oleg & Co. had earned a lot of good will from the community, supporting their game for years after release and having constructive dialogue with the community.

Contrast that to the current situation. We bought their broken game. We're closing in on a year after release, the game's still broken in multiple significant ways, and they're already talking about a sequel. This is the kind of crap that EA/DICE get lambasted for in the media with the Call of Duty series. Before BlackSix was appointed, we had to get our news secondhand from the russian forums, as if the non-Russian audience is the red-headed stepchild of flight simmers. Conversations between Developer and Community could best be described as "frosty", and at worst as "hostile".

You tell me, who's in the wrong here?

+1

This needs to be said more.

But at the time that was considered playable by the majority of the community. I know no one that even thought about playing it with the graphics totally maxed out. IL2 was playable because you could get online with all your mates and fly it into the wee hours of the morning without a worry about CTDs,and have a grand time doing it. And we did, night after night, for years. And I did it with a Ti 4400.

That's playability. Don't confuse it with eye candy ability.

And that is what we currently lack.

Sorry for the deception but we are not in the 90´s anymore.

Respectfully, El, we lack playability too. I certainly can't play online with my mates into the wee hours without worrying about CTDs. There's a memory leak in the game currently. I can't fly more than about 45 minutes without the game crashing.

Doggles, I think you drew the wrong conclusion from my post.

We do lack playability in CloD is my point, as compared to IL2 that was "playable" out of the box.

Sorry if it's confusing.

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I sure as hell remember IL2 being a resource hog in 2002. New mid-range hardware was able to run it low-to-medium settings at most, and that meant turning off the buildings. Some poeple just don`t remember where they come from.

BoM is day 1 buy for me. I just want to fly the new Friedrich.

:oops: Maybe I read it too fast, apologies.

What? People have been moaning regardless! You go back and read any of the update threads! And I`m annoyed too. Pretty sure of that. Do I attack BlackSix for lack of recent info?Do I post the same drivel about beating cheated?No, I wait, sometimes I`ll ask some questions. But I`m calm enough to hold back the childish GIVE ME NOW NOW NOW NOW OR ILL START SCREAMING attitude!