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Originally Posted by Art-J
...I'd love to see it completed, but for now, I'll just wait and see how things unfold.
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I agree there's cause for uncertainty, but this is a situation where sitting back and waiting to see what happens is actually detrimental to the chances of the thing working at all. If the Kickstarter campaign fails, nobody even gets the chance to see what the developers can come up with.
In the past developers and publishers would put out a product and if it failed financially, at least you still had the product (you just wouldn't get any sequels or add-ons). Nowadays, with investors less willing to take risks, the end-user has to pay upfront just to get anyone working on the project at all.
Remember too that if the Kickstarter campaign fails, no money is actually taken from those who pledged. In that way, the initial Kickstarter campaign is just as much about seeing if there's an audience at all anymore for detailed combat flight sims as it is about raising money for a particular project.
In my opinion DCS:WWII and BoS should both be supported just to keep the genre of realistic combat flight sims alive and keep the door open for further advancements and developments in the field. The developers have their responsibilities and roles to play in that, but so too does the end-user.
This isn't the time for indulging in skepticism and doubt or for sitting back and letting the cards fall where they may. If people want to keep flying in these games/sims, the developers need to keep coming up with the goods and the end-users need to let it be known in advance that there's an audience/market for them.