Oleg leaving game development (CoD)?

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Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

The true is that I'm still involved in a game industry. Still with sims.

However I'm thinking what to do next. One way I found. Another in research. All ways based on advanced gaming technologies..

Hi Oleg,

thanks for the clarification, and good to hear you are continuing to manage the long term future of BoB/SoW, as long term ww2 simmers we are all depending on you you are our only hope for a quality product, just ignore the whiners and focus on the good parts and your grateful supporters

1) have you read this interesting article ? http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/gra...l-to-directx/1
it discusses how future pc gaming can get significantly improved performance by directly programming to access the hardware functions themselves, rather then only work by interfacing with the operating system. this also should mean your new product would work on mac's which in the last years have started using exactly the same hardware as pc's (in cpu, gfx cards, ram etc)

2) can you please make a comment why BoB/SoW is again distributed by ubi ? is this a new arrangement you choose to do with them now for il2/CoD only, or is there still an old contract from the original il2 series that limits you into using them as long as the il2 series continues ?
Eagle Dynamics (ED) have published black shark themselves, is it maybe possible for you to link up with their distribution network ? they seem to describe similar frustrations as you have with marketing

from a recent interview with ED at simhq:
Q: Why did you publishing Black Shark yourselves??
A: The entertainment PC-based Flight Simulation market is very specialized and very different from the console market that the major publishers focus on. Through our experience of self-publishing Flaming Cliffs, we have developed the knowledge and expertise to sell and market directly to the Flight Simulation market through both on-line and retail channels.

i suspect ubi invested development funds into SoW/BoB in the last few years and that is why they have the distribution rights, hopefully this is only for the first CoD product and later releases can be either direct download online or via a similar company like ED