The Crystal Ball

[Chivas]

Its amazing how quickly people forgot the problems ROF had on release. It certainly wasn't released as unfinished as COD, but it was also not as complex. There is very little money in the prop genre and only dedicated flight sim people, like the ROF, and COD teams are still in the business. I'll have to remember to add a few more aircraft to my ROF install. I don't fly it much as I simply don't like the claustrophobic feel of that top wing.

Its also amazing that there are people who think that because someone says something good about COD that they are in denial about the problem that exist, and are hurting the genre. I'm not aware of anyone in the forums who thinks and posts that the sim doesn't need any work. I guess they figure the developer will think we must love the sim they way it is, and won't bother trying to fixing it. I'm quite sure the developer isn't impaired with that logic.

What the development have achieved so far is a mixed bag, that is indicative of any sim released unfinished. The current state of COD, has required years of work, and is a strong base to achieve a very good combat flight sim. As long as they keep working, I'm quite willing to support them. Its just a fact of life that todays combat flight sims are just too complex, expensive, and time consuming, for a small enthusiast developer to handle on time and on budget.

Yes, we could express the argument, that what was released took to long, and wasn't what we expected, but everyone is aware of that.....its time we got over it, and moved on to something else, or stay and support the development with constructive feedback.