I've always made a point of pre-ordering installments of the Il-2 and gone out of my way to ensure I get my copy on the first day of release. I won't be doing this with BoM though. I've only got a finite amount of cash to spend on this hobby and I need to ensure that the money goes to the most deserving team. Maddox Games is no longer it, unfortunately. They can keep any demo. I'll wait for the sales.

Well, it has a true point. But even if I make myself unpopular with the next sentence: I´ve seen so many people complaining about how unplayable CloD is, and the funny thing is, those people weren´t even able to play the old Il-2 1946 with full settings.
And I never had real problems with this game (performance wise), off course, the sound was, well not so nice, the communications are still...well, shit...(if you have old Il-2 in mind, which communication system they simply could have used for CloD if they´re unable to make a new one.), but in terms of performance, I was always above 30 to 40 fps. I´ve had about maybe 3 to 4 Launcher.exe crashes, and the only time, the game went slightly unplayable, was with one of the earlier beta patches, when flying over London.

So my personal opinion is: If a sequel for this game comes out, I will buy it, because it can´t be worse than CloD is at the moment. And I will tell you the reasons I will buy it the first day I get my hands on it.
1.) I love the original Il-2
2.) I enjoy CloD very much, even it is not at it´s full potential.
and finaly 3.) I think, we all want a new Il-2 which goes the same way as the old one, but only better. But we only get this, if we support the developers. And I think we should support them, because I don´t see much alternative developers for a WW 2 flight sim.

But off course, a demo would be fantastic. 10 years ago, we´ve got demos for every ... game, even on CD or then DVD of the gamer magazines. Now, you have to beg for something like it, and in most cases won´t get it.
Maybe the game developers don´t want us to test their product anymore before buying it. But anyway, we only rent the software so...
(The same applies for manuals, 10 to 15 years ago, we got a game for 100 DM (about 50€ today), and got a manual with about 100 to 400 pages! Today, we pay the same, well, due to inflation I think even more, and we get a leaflet with 14 pages.

But miracles still happen... xD

Just my two (€) Cents ;)

+1 even if some devs have trust in their products :grin: (i.e. F1 2012) and try this way to stimulate new users or bored one!

I for one will not be expecting a demo for BOM. I'm very much looking forward to the release though. I really don't think that pre-orders matter very much to them either, so I won't bother to do so. The shots of the Russian map that we viewed where beautiful to me. Smolensk, Kiev unknown but they looked great!!...as a side note, yesterday I realized that the individual land vehicles are capable of speed adjustment. This should be very useful for historical mission design:cool:

why free demo when you can get money for beta ? ...it worked with CoD so ...

we are all addicted and we don't have any real alternative ( WW II ) so we will take any bone they throw at us .

As for me goes , i will buy BoM as soon as hard copy comes to my part of the World ( but not directly from Steam) . In the meantime i will get first torrent i spot just because of my addiction/impatience to try it ASAP .

reg
Z

How about a working CLoD demo before we all wax lyrical about BoM??

Agreed

What they say about us having to buy their product again to fix the original, is 100% bullshit.

We know it, and they know it.

I've never installed a demo on top of another demo. This will be one for the books!

the demo question was asked in the lead-up to CoD

the answer at the time was that it would take to much effort to create as a separate item, and would take to many man hrs which they were very short on.

i suspect the answer will still be the same right now for BoM

I paid A$100 for CLOD and was happy to pay that, or even more to get a quality BOB sim. Ok we have problems, we all know the story but I'm still happy to pay $50+ for BOM if it gives more aircraft and fixes. I'm enjoying, the limited scope of what CLOD has delievered. Only up from here! :grin:

The demo i can take or leave, lets just hope it doesn't turn me off! (backfire)

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