Why so little interaction with the community?

Yes, but ignoring (or being too busy to have time for them) is one thing. Treating them in this way is another. It is silly, and self-defeating and illustrates incompetence generally.

[furbs]

The reason we dont have the Q and A is simple, Luither ether does not have the answers or he is just too embarrassed to write them down.

[adonys]

maybe I should remind you what is known about this project management: that before being promoted to lead CoD development after Oleg's departure, Luthier leaded Pacific Fighters. Which was almost a fiasco..

Drawn your own conclusions from here.

[Chivas]

Luthier was overly criticized for Pacific Fighters. I highly doubt it was Luthier's responsibility to secure the rights to model some of the aircraft, which was one of the biggest setbacks for Pacific Fighters. Luthier started the project by modeling an aircraft carrier, and the project steadily grew enough for a paid addon. They never intended to build the whole Pacific Conflict, as it would have taken too long for a decent monetary return. Most people enjoyed what Pacific Fighters had to offer and it gave community modders a wonderful base to expand the project. People rave about the work of community modders, but they never seem to get, its the developers that made that work possible.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by furbs

The reason we dont have the Q and A is simple, Luither ether does not have the answers or he is just too embarrassed to write them down.

Yup.. Those are the only reasons Luither does not spend more time here answering questions.. LOL

[raaaid]

i think its offensive talking not nicely of others

seems people think they can pay into do it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oArDFU_IESQ

[5./JG27.Farber]

Best post ever Raaid!

[ATAG_Snapper]

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

Best post ever Raaid!

+1

Good one!

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by raaaid

i think its offensive talking not nicely of others

I like turtles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0XXmVts1y0

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by Falstaff

Yes, but ignoring (or being too busy to have time for them) is one thing. Treating them in this way is another. It is silly, and self-defeating and illustrates incompetence generally.

i think the explanation for the lack of readme and a decent manual, and the minimal communication, is rather more simple. its an issue of lack of time and forced priorities

the incomplete/unfinished beta release of CoD was forced by the "money men" who put their foot down after repeated delays and postponements of release dates (going back to 2006). because of the good reputation of the il2 series, sales were initially pretty good and they recouped enough money to allow the project of a series of sequential releases in the SoW series to continue,....but....with CoD having been such a fiasco because it quickly became evident to users and reviewers that there were major prblems, both in poor sales as well as in product reputation and reviews, Luthier was told after 6 months not to continue to pour resources into it and focus on the next project (we have been told this directly)

if luthier does continue to work on CoD, he gets chastised by the bosses and risks the survival of the series (one more fiasco and they are dead, WE are dead), and if he doesnt work on fixes for it he is exposed to the howls of discontent and tirade of abuse in the forum. since the gfx and game engine needs to be fixed for BoM to succeed, we have the benefit of getting the fruits of that labor (and we just did with the beta patch of august 2012 which was a MAJOR improvement for mid and low end pc's, basically it made the game playable), but "content fixes" (other then a few glaring ones that majorly affect functioning of the product, like CTD;s etc..) have not been a priority at all and most efforts were put into BoM.

however frustrating that is for us with the further delays, luthier mentioned in his last post that his team will put one last big effort into fixes for CoD (now that they have reached a milestone in the development of BoM which satisfies the bosses), which is pretty good news for us if we can get him to fix the main issues that affect gameplay and use of CoD (AI commands, LoD visibility, FM and DM issues,...).