Question for Luthier

Here's my take on things, Luthier has already stated that he is a business man, its all about the money, this is why CLOD will be abandoned. So it would make no financial sense at all to have a sequel that features the content of CLOD, the sequel if installed over CLOD will give you all content and update/fix CLOD (we hope), if you dont have CLOD you just get the Russian stuff, I bet later down the line you will be able to buy the merged pack too. It makes a lot of financial sense for Luthier to not fix CLOD, if CLOD was fixed and working fully right now with a better netcode how many of us would buy the Russian add on?? Now we have no choice but to buy it if we want to get our game working, like Luthier said, ITS BUSINESS.

[MadTommy]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Here's my take on things, Luthier has already stated that he is a business man, its all about the money, this is why CLOD will be abandoned. So it would make no financial sense at all to have a sequel that features the content of CLOD, the sequel if installed over CLOD will give you all content and update/fix CLOD (we hope), if you dont have CLOD you just get the Russian stuff, I bet later down the line you will be able to buy the merged pack too. It makes a lot of financial sense for Luthier to not fix CLOD, if CLOD was fixed and working fully right now with a better netcode how many of us would buy the Russian add on?? Now we have no choice but to buy it if we want to get our game working, like Luthier said, ITS BUSINESS.

err couldn't disagree more with your evaluation of what is good for their business. They don't have to fix CloD to include the maps & planes from CloD in the sequel. The present FM issues in CloD are due to the borked backbone of the game. Which they will have to fix for the sequel, therefore adding the planes & map should not be of any real expense to them and will only increase the appeal of the sequel and therefore increase sales, its all business.

If they don't fix the backbone of the engine the sequel will be a disaster anyway. Hence why there is no way in hell i'll be buying the sequel on release. I'll be eagerly waiting for impartial reviews before i touch it with a 10 foot pole.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by MadTommy

err couldn't disagree more with your evaluation of what is good for their business. They don't have to fix CloD to include the maps & planes from CloD in the sequel. The present FM issues in CloD are due to the borked backbone of the game. Which they will have to fix for the sequel, therefore adding the planes & map should not be of any real expense to them and will only increase the appeal of the sequel and therefore increase sales, its all business.

If they don't fix the backbone of the engine the sequel will be a disaster anyway. Hence why there is no way in hell i'll be buying the sequel on release. I'll be eagerly waiting for impartial reviews before i touch it with a 10 foot pole.

Wow, sounds like you are very good with finances.

[MadTommy]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

Wow, sounds like you are very good with finances.

Ohh that sounds back handed

I was a business development manager for about 10 years... (it was nothing more than my opinion on the matter)

[SlipBall]

Sorry.. hope there is reason to buy

[TonyD]

I don’t understand what all the confusion is about, perhaps reading too much into luthier’s syntax. He has stated many times that their intention was to continue with this series the same way they did with the original one, whether this will happen will only be known in the future.

The original IL2 was ‘abandoned’, wasn’t it? You had to buy the sequel to get an update. Pacific Fighters was also ‘abandoned’ in that it cannot be updated beyond 4.07 – you need to buy ’46 to get any further updates. And the last version included the content of all of the previous versions.

I don’t think that this term is particularly apt in these circumstances, although it probably sounds suitably dramatic from a certain viewpoint.