Just FYI, SOW is not dead

[Bearcat]

Of that I have absolutely no doubt Ivan. From where I sit... no news is good news. If it was canceled then we would have been told.. we were told it is being worked on. That was the last thing we got. For my way of thinking , to think anything contrary in the absence of contrary info is just silly and a waste of time.

[DKoor]

Eh... I'd wait two more years if I know they gonna make it right...
And I have no indication that it wont be right...
I can understand that game takes long time to make... and they probably don't have as much manpower & resources as big game industry... that may be the reason why the big sharks are producing titles really fast.

I'm more than satisfied with the screens I saw, and vids I saw.
One step ahead, really...

Good times are ahead of us simmers...
KotS, SOW...


We should be glad that it is happening, because I personally know very very few people that are interested in aviation let alone WW2 aviations, let alone WW2 aviation games...

Therefore market is limited as these titles are interesting to a limited number of people.

And all the stuff that comes with this...

[Vigilant]

Originally Posted by DKoor

Eh... I'd wait two more years if I know they gonna make it right...

Two years, be sure

[Chivas]

I little doubt that BOB SOW will be completed. That said any project can be canned, but we know from periodic information that everything is full steam ahead especially since all the work on the Il-2 series has stopped.

People have been wailing for a proper advertising campaign to start since 2005. It would have been a colossal waste of money had the developer and publisher listened to us, lol. The advertising will start when its time to start, especially since they also want to use the SOW engine for cgi movies.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Chivas

I little doubt that BOB SOW will be completed. That said any project can be canned, but we know from periodic information that everything is full steam ahead especially since all the work on the Il-2 series has stopped.

I really hope that you are right. I remember the wait and agony when the news about Harpoon 4 started to thin out after 6 years that last time when they had showed to code to Ubisoft Romania in a last attempt to get it done. Then suddenly (but not that unexpected), the knife in the back of the project. I guess a lot of us still have a hard time falling asleep from time to time thinking of that and the promises from Ubisoft that it would be released - be sure (or similar)... Another thing that COULD happen (which would be worse than killing the project) is a press release from Ubisoft saying that SoW:BoB is now scheduled to be released on Xbox 360, PS3 and then PC a year later - with the new title "Tom Clancys Storm of War", telling that you may even use a joystick on the PC, but a gamepad is recommended


/Mazex

[Chivas]

My guess at this stage if UBI pulled financial support the project would still see the light of day legally or illegally. Unless ofcourse Oleg has hit a technical wall.

[Feuerfalke]

BoB is a project that has simply gone far too long and sucked up far to much resources from the publishers and the developers to cancel the project now. Neither one could afford that and UBI is expecting to surpass the success of the IL2-series and they surely won't let this chance just pass.

Considering the competitors, I have no doubt that BoB is advanced beyond the tidbits of informations we have. Remember development started over 5 years ago, with more or less people working on it.
And the scan of the high detail WIP landscape taken from that Russian game-magazine I mentioned before, dates back to February 2006!


Btw, mazex, there is a Tom Clancy-Flight "Sim" Game planned to be released Q4 2008