As a WW sim veteran, War Eagles!, anyone ? (Cosmi -1989)
The last decades were very harsh for this industry and the vast majority of our beloved companies have gone kablooie
(Sierra/Dynamix, Microprose, Origine/Jane's, Rowan/Empire, DID/Rage, Microsoft Aces Studio etc ...
The last straw was the selling of MFS engine to Lockheed Martin in 2009.
It was a real war but the good guys are still in the cockpit here @1C
This is the biggest day since IL2 sturmovik release for me, a real milestone, at last 1C will show the quality of their work.
Luthier & co, worked their a** off, for years and he nearly killed himself by exhaustion trying to save the baby. But he eventually did.
CoD will become the new WWII sim reference. The bird will fly and bring high in the sky 1C colours (especially with the lightning
).
Of course there's still tons of features left in the garage, and CoD itself will keep the stigmas of a badly rushed product.
But the team is already working on a better platform and when the big merge will come, the champagne will pop! (i pay my bottle and i send it from France) because it will be IL2 all over again (just imagine the pacific omygosh).
I'am confident they have a better control of the publishing (at least in russia) and the russian market is rising. Also we won't see any serious competitors at this level, too much work has been done already.
It's a niche but the dog is a bear
