A final message from Luthier

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by Chivas

The IC publishers lost patience with Luthier, and the MG developers, and shut down the COD game engine development. The IC publishers obviously had discussions with 777 Studios on the merger to see who would stay, and who would go, from the COD development crew, some of it had to be very political, and cut throat.

Personally I think in the long run, IC publishing made a mistake, as IMHO . I personally have some qualms as to 777 Studios behind the scenes involvement in the demise of the new IL-2 game engine, but some people will suggest they saved the sim, I'm not so sure. Time will tell.

I said this very thing awhile back...if Jason reached out to 1C and initiated/lobbied for the talks to join forces with 1C, why then that would be sad.