You know, I joined this community not long ago with this silly idea that all of us Flight sim fans were in this together, that we were a tight knit community that knew not only how to behave but how to treat each other like human beings.
What I have seen on this post goes beyond playful sibling rivalry, this is outright shameful, all this nitpicking and hate for something you all know NOTHING about yet, there is no actual information yet beyond a few words on a page and you will think it is okay to jump on the 777 hatewagon.
I am going to be honest, I am one of those dirty ROF players and I find many of the posts on this topic (mostly from Banned) to be insulting and hurtful, I mean, don't you get that it is okay to like both, that liking one does not mean you can't like the other.
Lets be honest here, CloD is dead, it has been dead since the last steam patch and while I find it perfectly playable and very fun, it is not the product that we wanted and it is not the one that they set out to make, bad choices were made and now it is over.
777 has run a tight ship, while you may all look at ROF (in development) screenshots and thumb your noses, blurting insults at anyone who dares like the "rival", you all have to admit that ROF works as planned, everything that they set out to do gets done without all the drama and bellyaching that we have seen from some of the CloD dev's and forum mods, it just plain works and it works really well.
I am not going to get into a fight over what is better in terms of gameplay, I prefer CloD's clickable cockpits (yes Banned, even a lowly ROF player can handle them, I even play DCS titles, is your mind blown?) and the overall look of the maps and aircraft but when it comes to feel, when it comes to the flight model, ROF wins hands down, it just feels right.
ROF is my go-to sim these days, I have all the planes and will continue to buy content for it as they release it, I would have bought Battle over Moscow also but that was never to be, I had my doubts that they could get things together and they came true.
Look at it this way, if it were not for this partnership, there would be no IL-2 anymore, in a way, us lowly ROF players are opening our doors to the CloD community and we are not doing so with vicious bile and hate, we welcome new players into our community with open arms.
I don't hate on CloD or CloD players because I play ROF, heck, I play CloD on a regular basis myself!
Perhaps it is time to just accept the fact that CloD is dead and maybe try to think of this as a fresh start where we can put away our petty rivalry and move on to brighter times for both of us.
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