end of the road

[jasonbirder]

if you're going to start with the unnecessary stirring get a bigger spoon.

Amidst the humour he does have a valid point...For as long as the Mod's have existed there has been the usual barrage of abuse and dissent from the cabal of competitive onliners who are opposed to this community modding effort...hundreds of posts devoted to describing it as Hacking, Criminal, Illegal, In breach of the EULA , vandalism of encrypted files that were never meant to be touched etc, etc...A cornerstone of their argument against it (Which lets be honest was just a smokescreen because they want to ensure ALL play is restricted to stock/vanilla IL2 1946) was that it was in breach of the EULA, in breach of intellectual propety laws etc etc...
Now all of a sudden the self same people are involved in development and testing of a programme that will need to access/verify these self same inviolate, untouchable files...Making them by their own logic guilty of the same offences...
Yet has there been the whisper of an apology? An admission that they were wrong? An acceptance that tinkering with the sim (Which is exactly what they are doing) can make the sim better?
Nope...you bet there hasn't!
To be honest I wish the effort well...because as I have said from the start, I believe users should be free to improve the game to maximise their enjoyment and immersion...
But I suggest that the people who have been anti-mod from the start either admit they were wrong...OR they can greet this server side verification programme with exactly the same wailing and gnashing of teeth..and the same accusations of vandalism and criminality.
Until then...the whiff of hypocrisy will hang in the air!