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Originally Posted by nearmiss
Lessons are never learned when egos get in the way. The most successful MSFT air combat simulation game was CFS2, not the CFS1 or CFS3. CFS2 and the Pacific IL2 are the most successful releases for either company. What is so hard to understand about that? 
The Battle of Britain was a loser for Rowan and he just yielded up the code for it to the community. The Korean war by Rowan was a loser as well and he gave up that code as well.
The best war theatre is the Pacific war, because it had huge variations in aircraft, carrier operations and the scenery was awesome. Gaijin did some things Pacific, but it was just arcade stuff and no one goes for that.
Anyone taking on another European Front will just learn the same things over again. Sadly, if you really consider the Battle of Stalingrad it was a depressing battle, there were limited early war aircraft, the weather and scenery were awful. The battles and engagements were boring as well.
This is free advice, but we all know free advice is worthless and paid for advice rarely heeded. The only thing that seems to matter to the those who produce games, especially air combat games is the devs egotistical imperatives. All we get in the end is excuses for predictable subsequent failures. |
Very well said! Instead of a business proposition it becomes egotistical drive fueled by some twisted sense of National pride.
Hell you could make a non combat sim in the Pacific that would be exponentially more interesting than any air battle in the East. I had more fun and excitment trying to navigate to my carrier in foul weather as darkness was closing in with my fuel gage on empty. Wondering if I had enough fuel to swing around for a second pass ,assuming my aircraft carrier was still afloat and not burning. Hoping the pilot before me did not mess the flight deck up with a poor landing. Always looking over my shoulder as I heard my ships AAA fire up hoping the were not trying to shoot someone off my tail. There was always a rush, no matter how many times you you flipped your dive bomber over and saw the huge Battleship or carrier fill up your sight.
Instead lets rush off to make some boring mundane russian sceanery and cover it with snow for a little more monotony.So I can fly my disposable under armed, under powered, slow russian aircraft with a thimble full of fuel thru the weeds . Assuming the adhere to historical accuracy, looking thru my yellowed windscreen, flying with the canopy open to cool down the overheated cockpit reaching for a rag to clean the perputully leaking oil off my googles.