Ok MG.. you want me to buy BoM after all CoD was during this year..

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by pstyle

The market needs a competitor....

Yes, I'm sure there must be someone out there who wants to risk a huge investment for a small market of crybabies.

[Feathered_IV]

There is a pretty nice information update and interview over at the RoF website today. Nice to see how the other half do it. Watch and learn Maddox Games.

[csThor]

Can anyone grab Jason and clone him? (for without him RoF wouldn't have development updates, either)

[pstyle]

Originally Posted by David Hayward

Yes, I'm sure there must be someone out there who wants to risk a huge investment for a small market of crybabies.

I'm not suggesting it would be easy..... But the crybaby element could be overcome through output quality.

Small market is difficult one though. I think you'd need sales of around 500,000 to justify spending a ten million or so

[adonys]

GPL means no one could use that code for selling.

And the second option guarantees that, no matter the state of the game/engine at the BoM release, community can pick it up, fix it and continue the work on it to bring it to at least an acceptable state if MG are not up to the task (as in if they won't be interested anymore, or they are not able to)

And then, I will be willing to pay them for that.

[csThor]

Originally Posted by adonys

GPL means no one could use that code for selling.

And the second option guarantees that, no matter the state of the game/engine at the BoM release, community can pick it up, fix it and continue the work on it to bring it to at least an acceptable state if MG are not up to the task (as in if they won't be interested anymore, or they are not able to)

And then, I will be willing to pay them for that.

But they could not sell anything anymore, at least not with the amount of "exclusivety" a closed engine could. 1C would never allow that.

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by pstyle

I'm not suggesting it would be easy..... But the crybaby element could be overcome through output quality.

No it wouldn't. Rise of Flight is a fantastic game with very few annoying problems and there is still a constant stream of whining on their forum.

[6S.Tamat]

[id Hayward;436832]Yes, I'm sure there must be someone out there who wants to risk a huge investment for a small market of crybabies.[/QUOTE]

If the team of rof would start a project on let's say pacific ww2 i bet that more than a risk would be an investment.

[SEE]

I have over 1500 hours of fun and some frustration with CloD for £50, that works out at just over 3 pence per hour, I will be buying BoM for sure even if it isn't perfect!

[Flanker35M]

S!

The last beta gave me some hope with CoD as the performance increased considerably from earlier releases. But again the game should have been a lot better since release as the devs had more than 10 years COMBINED experience with IL-2 series, no more novices or without extensive data to use in development.

So let's hope BoM or whatever the sequel will be, runs out of the box right away with the bitter lessons learned from CoD release. Being one of the best and only publishers of flight sims does not warrant to slack the slightest So good luck with patch work and sequel. Sincerely.