[TonyD]

I don’t understand what all the confusion is about, perhaps reading too much into luthier’s syntax. He has stated many times that their intention was to continue with this series the same way they did with the original one, whether this will happen will only be known in the future.

The original IL2 was ‘abandoned’, wasn’t it? You had to buy the sequel to get an update. Pacific Fighters was also ‘abandoned’ in that it cannot be updated beyond 4.07 – you need to buy ’46 to get any further updates. And the last version included the content of all of the previous versions.

I don’t think that this term is particularly apt in these circumstances, although it probably sounds suitably dramatic from a certain viewpoint.