Patience is a virtue...

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Chivas, Im not disagreeing with you entirely on this, but I think it was appalling that the Dev's did not offer some explanation as to the state of CLOD upon release, letting it just slip out knowing the condition it was in in my opinion as done nothing for their reputation. Yes, there may have been pressure from UBI but we can never be sure, but UBI don't control these forums, a simple statement of fact or a heartfelt appeal to us from Luthier would have made a very big difference to how most feel about this product and where it's going.

Luthier did say in one of his posts that everyone has a right to be totally pissed at the condition of the sim. That said the developer was between a rock and hard place before release. Letting the customer know exactly how incomplete the sim was could have been catastrophic. Many people could have held off buying, effectively killing the sim. Atleast now there is enough monies generated to keep Luthier and team in business, hopefully long after the US release. Although I think the sales numbers of the US release will have to be strong to warrant further work on the sim. If the developer can weather this storm we should be seeing patches and new theaters for many more years.

I'm not saying its right, but the ROF developers also had to release their sim in a very incomplete state without warning their customers. They have been able to weather the storm without to much blow back from their customers. I'm afraid that todays combat flight sims are far to complex to develop in a affordable time frame. Maybe if everything went perfectly, it could be done, but that rarely happens.