Where did you see me write that, exactly?

Maybe you should reread that yourself.


I`m not, I`m just asking questions. Maybe you should not post at all if you feel offended by such questions.

The future of commercially viable flight sims is pretty clear.

Anything that approaches realism or has any sophistication is far too likely to attract criticism and negativity. These things should be avoided.

What will sell is something that looks pretty, has awesome explosions and effects, is simple for beginners to use, and right from the start makes absolutely no claims to historical accuracy or accurate flight dynamics.

hmmm ... sounds like someone should make a Crimson Skies II

It wasn't the realism and sophistication in COD that attracted criticism. It was the half-implemented features and bugs.

Those problems were related to the sophistication and ambition though so there is a lesson - if you're going to go for the ultimate make sure you can pull it off, or else scale back your ambition.

What bugs!

I could fly around with a fairly constant 60fps, the bugs couldn't have been that big!

Ok. Parallel universe time again??!

Were you getting the steady 60fps at release of the game Krupi?

I don't think saying that COD was afflicted with bugs and problems is really that controversial a statement, at least I didn't intend it to be and I didn't intend to provoke an argument.

Netcode and AI commands fixed would have been the saving grace I think...oh well here we are today

No I got a steady 60 fps about two patches ago IIRC.

The bugs were been slowly but surely ironed out, the problem was not the sophistication or the ambition those are both things that should have been seen by the community and allowed them time to fix everything ala the original il2.

The problem was the game was released too early and that a lot of people were not patient enough to wait for fixes and added content.

Well that and an OK offline campaign.

The offline gamer market segment is bigger than people think, the game ran OK offline compared to online early on, and offline players tend to be much more tolerant of issues and glitches (a mission freezing is way less annoying than getting kicked from a server) and are less bothered by percieved game balance issues.

Yep, desastersoft with the release :grin:

Sorry, but I disagree. But it's easy to see which way any further discussion on this will go, and in the current climate I'm not going there. ;)