In search of the grail...

[mazex]

Originally Posted by airmalik

Ok I'll bite. Here's what I think happened:

Oleg/IC had a contract with UBI to produce x sims over a number of years. BOB/SOW development started way before 2007 but the scope changed/increased and rather than abandon that series with UBI at the end of the contract which was approaching, Oleg decided to 'save' BOB for until after his contract with UBI expired. I think this is why we hear Oleg say that development on BOB didn't start until 2007 even though people saw and played demos before then. My feeling is that there is some dispute with UBI about this and SOW won't see the light of day until that's resolved.

Of course I don't have anything to back this up except my hunch. Hey, everyone here has a theory so why not me?

That's my theory too, but as all has been quiet on the western front since 2006 I hoped that someone had some link to a cyrillic page that mentions SoW or whatever the next title will be called. As it is now SimHQ is the official channel (and to some extent this IL2 forum), that feels a bit odd. Now and then bablefished stories pop up from some of the active russian forums (sukhoi.ru etc), so I hoped that somewhere on the russian 1C pages there would be information. As it is now I wait at every event (Leipzig, E3 etc) for some update from 1C (or even Ubi - we are only guessing that they are completely cut off). As long as 1C don't even show SoW in their lists of games in production, how could we get an update?

I do agree with you airmalik, there are probably lawyers involved here - let's just hope they don't mess this up. Some day I suppose that 1C will do a big bang presentation of the new title from the creator of IL2, and it will probably not be called Storm of War... Silly name anyway. Now that FSX is gone and X-plane behaves like an arcade game (especially regarding low speed physics) the scene is open to take a bite at the whole market I guess - so that's maybe what has caused the lack of information. Enter the "Aerospace Simulator" series by Maddox Games or something, with the first installation containing a BoB module, an aerobatics competition module and a modern civilian module where you can fly Cessnas and Pipers from modern day England and France

Just dreaming - thats all we can do while in the cold

/Mazex