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Cheating and "gaming the game" and other negative stuff was in IL-2 online gaming long before it was hacked. The cheaters will cheat anyway, be the game a stock one or otherwise compiled one. Far easier to blame certain circumstances for online "dying" when it was already dying years ago due lack of any true new content. The gap between patches was VERY long. Now 4.10m added new stuff and it can be seen with slightly higher numbers in HL, but far from the times when IL-2 was younger.
SoW will allow 3rd Party stuff, but this time it is totally different. The proper tools and specific documentation will be released by the developers, not like in IL2 where the "other guys" learned thru trial & error. Only TD got the true tools one odd year ago to create new stuff for IL-2 and approval for it. Comparing SoW and IL-2 is fruitless as the starting points are so different regarding 3rd party work and their implementation.
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