Oleg leaving game development (CoD)?

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Originally Posted by HFC_Dolphin

I'm tired of hearing the "how small is the flight simulator market" argument.
Why is it small?
There are thousands, or better say millions of people who are interested in flight simulators, therefore it can't be a small market.

It might be small, if your target is to sell 10 or 100 million copies of software, but if that's the target then I'm sad that we're still discussing this subject.

All in all, the market is quite big, especially for small companies like Maddox Games and I'm pretty sure that unless they've signed a really bad contract with publishers, Oleg Maddox (and I guess Ilya Shevchenko as well) will get filled with money enough to spend their time in vacations for many-many years.

Wrong, there might be millions of folks interested in aviation and ww2, but they would in most cases not have a clue that games like this exists or have an interest at all in playing them.

It is a small market, the pc gaming market in itself is very small and then you've a niche within that which is simulation and then an even further step which is what kinda simulation, theater etc.

It would be ridiculous to state that the flight sim market is huge with millions of customers, the same goes for stating that Oleg , Ilya or the crew would be come millionaires for life on this.(Sad)

I'd much rather have it this way, but your "thoughts" or whatever simply doesn't translate to reality where Call of Duty sends developers on lifetime vacations for doing nothing.