You have to remember only 1-5% of the people who purchase this sim actually check out the forums. We are the HARDCORE fans. We all have super fast computers and lots of cool joysticks because we are the hardcore simmers.
But what about the other 95% who buy this sim, fly it offline, and never touch the forums? Or all the XP users in Russia who this sim is primarily aimed for since 1C is a Russian company? IL2 series is HUGE over there. You can't alienate them.
If they designed this sim just for the couple hundred of people like us who lurk on these forums we wouldn't even have these forums since this project would of long been dead most likely.
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