I don't envy luthier...

[Rattlehead]

To me the game needed another six months or so of development time before being released, and I suspect it will take about that long before we can say CoD is what we were expecting it to be upon release. Maybe a bit longer.

Obviously the team is working hard to sort things out and kudos to them for supporting this sim like they have been. This game is going to have to be fixed one little bit at a time...there won't be one magic patch that cures all the problems.

The game is not in an unrecoverable state by any means, and we must remember that whatever they learn from fixing the problems in CoD is something that can be carried over to the next expansion pack or installment of the series.

Even if CoD does not reach the heights expected, and the game sells poorly, I still think Ubi would support the series because the next expansion or installment should have a much smoother ride, on account of lessons learnt
with CoD.

While this is a niche market and a comparatively small fanbase in relation to some other genres, it is obviously a market passionately supported by it's fans.
And I think that oddly, it's that very niche quality that puts CoD in a strong position. There is no direct opposition to CoD...nothing new, anyway. There is no modern rival WW2 flight sim doing it better, and there are a ton of WW2 era fans.
Let's face it, can we really play 1946 forever?