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Originally Posted by zapatista
like what ?
re DCS, i'd say the exact opposite. they are known for their solid track record in regularly producing new high quality combat flightsim elements. they do keep to their deadlines, work with a small team, and their larger more ambitious new projects (like their new gfx engine, EDGE) are not given a firm release date until very close to completion.
for the eager beavers they provide a beta product purchase system that provides significant advantages, not only do you get to play around with your new toy early, most beta stage releases are usually already pretty good and they will give you a significant discount on the final purchase price for doing so. cant be more fair then that imho 
for their finished flightsim products, their netcode is solid, they have a good multiplayer function, a very advanced mission builder that provides a dynamic campaign function, and their avionics, flightmodels, and weapons systems and ballistics are very good (near military sim grade basically). my only gripe with them is that the modern era in flightsims is just not my cup 'a tea, and i'd wish they would focus more on ww2 or korean era (which we are about to receive now in the next year). |
Ehm, that's a bit of a rose-tinted-glasses look over here, especially re. regularity and keeping the dealines. Nowadays, ED guys are mostly known for two things: a) detailed study sims (I'm OK with that); b) neverending stories of "we're working on it", serioulsy delayed releases and neverending beta-status projects (I'm not OK with that). Ironically, the only modules, which were built and released reasonably fast this year (UH-1 and Mi-8TW) were made by 3rd party company (Belsimtek). The upcoming detailed MiG-21 module is also a 3rd party job.
Their GFX engine has also never been properly optimized for modern hardware, hence everybody waiting for EDGE (almost like for some kind of Holy Grail, which will finally speed up the development in the DCS universe).
These factors, coupled with questionable record of Luthier (I'm thinking about his management of PF and CoD) makes me a bit cautious about this upcoming WWII project. I'd love to see it completed, but for now, I'll just wait and see how things unfold.