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IL-2 Sturmovik The famous combat flight simulator.

View Poll Results: What do you think of this kind of pre-purchase option for SOW?
I think it's a good idea and probably would pre-purchase. 108 69.68%
I think it's a good idea but probably would not pre-purchase. 13 8.39%
I think it's a bad idea. 34 21.94%
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Old 10-05-2010, 06:10 AM
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I wouldn't have a problem with a paid beta. It would give the developers much needed funds, and we would be able to fly weeks in advance. Hopefully there will be workable measures to avoid piracy as much as possible. Piracy will kill this small genre quicker than anything else.
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Old 10-05-2010, 06:38 AM
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A broad beta such as DCS does is only useful if you want to test a program on a very wide range of systems. This means the program itself has to be fleshed out and that beta part is only meant to ensure there are no nasty surprises WRT exotic hardware configurations lurking in the shadows.

For a team such as Maddox Games such an approach doesn't make sense for they never follow traditional western standards for software project management and they're a rather small team for an ambitious project. To me it's a bad idea for SoW while it may not be a bad one for other titles.
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Old 10-05-2010, 06:54 AM
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The more eyes, the more bugs, problems can be spoted and solved.

Combining it with a pre-buy... another win-win.

Ofcourse... if you have something to test...
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Old 10-05-2010, 08:25 AM
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The more eyes, the more bugs, problems can be spoted and solved.

Combining it with a pre-buy... another win-win.

Ofcourse... if you have something to test...
Oleg won't get a penny as long as you're ordering through stores and middle men this early. It would have to be some direct distribution done by 1c/maddox games, if the money is gonna matter(pre-order wise).

For this project i believe a closed beta would be best.
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Old 10-05-2010, 08:32 AM
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Debate aside, SoW is BETA tested internally within Oleg's team or the 1C group (he stated something similar to this a while back) so this discussion may be a bit pointless...
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Old 10-05-2010, 09:26 AM
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Debate aside, SoW is BETA tested internally within Oleg's team or the 1C group (he stated something similar to this a while back) so this discussion may be a bit pointless...
So you think A-10C is not being tested by a group of dedicated testers? Think again.
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Old 10-05-2010, 09:31 AM
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I wasn't saying that. I was saying that, from what Oleg has said, this kind of offer won't be offerred to the community in this way.
My comment wasn't saying anything against DCS.
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Old 10-08-2010, 04:15 PM
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The biggest difference with DCS which I purchased by the way is that is has a very strong DRM scheme... You have to activate it and deactivate it when you have hardware changes or you want it on a different machine.

I also think because the sim in a way is more complex modeling all the different systems of a modern plane it has more to flesh out. I could be wrong because of the volume of airplanes the weather stuff and many other things in SOW. Either way I like the approach and for a smaller team I think it's a great idea to get it out into the hands of the community. It also builds awareness and heck I support any Flight Sim at the moment. We is tiny.
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Old 10-05-2010, 07:11 AM
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Old 10-05-2010, 07:26 AM
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A "payed beta"? It would never, never, never work with this community (lol)...

The very idea is hilarious...in fact, this MUST be a joke, right?
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