I think these guys are going to work on the program untill the night before release. How much time does it take to get a Gold file distributed to a bunch of file servers? Anyone with a disk is going to be downloading a last minute release patch. No hardcopy for me this time. I'll get it online with the release patch and burn a backup copy.
I don't know who set the release deadline but from reading between the lines there's still a whole lot of optimizing to be done. Il2 got released when Oleg was ready and they even had time to make a demo. This time they're fighting a publisher set deadline. Would not even surprise me if they can't get it done by March 24th and push it up by a few months. Olegs not going to release buggy software. Maybe feature wise incomplete, but not buggy.
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