What disappoints me is the lack of communication on the 'Official' forum :(

[ElAurens]

Gents, some of you know me, I've been around the sim a long time. Here's my take on things.

1. Every time Oleg shows his face here or at the Ubizoo he gets flamed, every single time. Why would anyone want to repeat that that experience? So stop begging him to show up, and use a little common sense and gentlemanly comportment in your replies when he, or any member of the dev team does post here.

2. As has been said over and over and over again, even if Oleg wanted to post every day on development of the new sim he could not owing to contractual restraints placed on MG by UBIsoft. If your boss says to not do something, do you do it anyway?

3. What exactly is the beef with the dev screens posted so far, other than they are infrequent? Some of them have been quite revealing of the level of detail we can expect. "But we want in game shots!!!111!!" Oh really? Does anyone remember the alpha screenshots of the original IL2? I do, they looked nothing like the release. What makes you think alpha screens of SOW would be any different?

4. This is just my take on things, but I believe that what Oleg and his team are making is going to be far ahead of anything that has ever been attempted in this genre. So far ahead in fact that they cannot afford to risk tipping their hand to another developer in any way. Even in seemingly "harmless" dev posts for us.

So why don't we just move along and enjoy the software we already have? It is, after all, still the best prop sim ever created.

See you in Hyperlobby.

[Rjel]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

4. This is just my take on things, but I believe that what Oleg and his team are making is going to be far ahead of anything that has ever been attempted in this genre. So far ahead in fact that they cannot afford to risk tipping their hand to another developer in any way. Even in seemingly "harmless" dev posts for us.

If what you say is the reason and it may well be, given how long SoW has been in development and advanced as it sounds like it is, how could another developer glean any information posted here that could bring a product to market before Oleg's game? It just doesn't make sense. But all of these arguments have been discussed before. If Oleg's hands are tied by Ubi when it comes to discussing his product, then they're obviously doing more damage to possible sales of SoW than could be done by pre-release information that may or may not be accurate.