Ok MG.. you want me to buy BoM after all CoD was during this year..

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Originally Posted by MadTommy

I really hope the expansion is a long way off... the last thing this game (clod) needs is less people playing it. The online community is horribly small as it is. A sequel soon will likely completely kill it.

I very much doubt i'll be playing any sequel until i've had some solid online play time with Clod, If there is no community to play with in Clod i certainly wont just gobble up their sequel.

I already have too many simulated aircraft on my PC to remember correctly.. with RoF, DCS & CloD.. and i know which one is the problem child. Last thing i need is another problem child..

The reason the community is small is because a lot of people haven't migrated from IL2 (many of those that did went to play ROF). The question is why?

Personally I think a large part of it is because CLOD provides a much more limited scope for what you can do with it. For me the lack of COOP is the main reason I didn't play more. Then there are the bugs/problems and finally there is the fact that there will be many people who don't have the specs to run CLOD well.

When I first started playing IL2 many people still hadn't migrated from EAW. When ARMA 3 comes out there will be people still playing ARMA II for ages afterwards.

The community isn't smaller (in fact it is probably bigger than in 2002) it is just split over at least 3 games ROF, IL2 and CLOD to a lesser extent.

I'll definately buy BOM (unless it is released as a MMO!) but I'm not sure I have the same enthusiasm for the game as I did. Mainly because for many many years I wanted to play a BOB sim and when I got it I found it surely lacking. Maybe one day we will be able to have a good coop and 70-80 bomber formations etc and play without micro stutter