Why does luthier even bother?

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Rja

I do think those types of business practices are deceptive to say the least, whatever the product might be. While it might accomplish the short term goal of continued development, it might well sacrifice long term repeat sales. Too many feel burned by this release to the point that they may or may not be back. Hopefully those of us who stick will be sufficient enough in numbers to ensure more releases. I would think Luthier knows that well enough to avoid any more public relation disasters.

The early release accomplished the "long term goal", now we have a strong possibility of the series continuing for years. If it wasn't released as is, it was finito, done, dead, there was no more development funds available to finish the project. Unless you believe they released the sim unfinished just to piss everyone off.

Further public relation disasters should be avoided now that the game engine is basically working, and you only need to flesh out the new theaters. BUT it will depend on how long it takes to fix the bugs and add missing features, before they can work full tilt on the new theaters. That said new features can still be added to COD as they release the new theaters, the same way they developed the original IL-2 series.