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Originally Posted by JG5_emil
The reason the community is small is because a lot of people haven't migrated from IL2 (many of those that did went to play ROF). The question is why?
Personally I think a large part of it is because CLOD provides a much more limited scope for what you can do with it. For me the lack of COOP is the main reason I didn't play more. Then there are the bugs/problems and finally there is the fact that there will be many people who don't have the specs to run CLOD well.
When I first started playing IL2 many people still hadn't migrated from EAW. When ARMA 3 comes out there will be people still playing ARMA II for ages afterwards.
The community isn't smaller (in fact it is probably bigger than in 2002) it is just split over at least 3 games ROF, IL2 and CLOD to a lesser extent.
I'll definately buy BOM (unless it is released as a MMO!) but I'm not sure I have the same enthusiasm for the game as I did. Mainly because for many many years I wanted to play a BOB sim and when I got it I found it surely lacking. Maybe one day we will be able to have a good coop and 70-80 bomber formations etc and play without micro stutter  |
One good thing I did because of COD's teething problems was to try out the free demo of ROF. Nearly a year later and I'm totally hooked. Have just updated to the new version 1.026 and bought some weapon mod add-ons.
By way of a contrast to this forum, check out the update thread for ROF, where everyone is ecstatically happy and full of praise for an update that has
exceeded expectations.
http://riseofflight.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=30934
Not posting to gloat or anything like that. I was just thinking that I really (really!) hope that we all get to experience reactions like that here for a COD update sometime soon.