It's not trolling, it's not the money...

[Madfish]

Personally I just assumed he left anyways. Back in the days he made some weird posts and links were spread around were he was clearly dealing with other projects not related to flight simming even if I remember. But my memory could be wrong.


Anyways, a game that relies on a single developer will fail in todays gaming ecosystem for sure. Games are much more complex than the garage creations like pacman back in the days.
It's a team effort now. Either the team is capable of delivering the goal without relying on individuals or the game is doomed.

That said I believe that what hurt IL-2 CloD most is it's bad art style and the lack of a real emotional campaign. In todays game business that's always a feature to pull people in.
The 100 people or so on the forums here, bickering all day long, are not what makes or breaks the game. Even 10.000 copies is "just" around 100k for the studio itself (tops), and developing a game like CloD with 100k is impossible.