Been a while....

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by SaQSoN

Do you think, the developers had no serious reason for dropping IL-2 support?
You'd be surprised, how few people would actually buy such addon and how expensive it would be in development. Sorry, but that not going to work. No add-on for IL-2 (except for some mission/campaign packs, may be) can be profitable at the moment.
IL-2 is dead as a commercial enterprise. Get on with that.

I don't know about that. I bought every add on that came out that had new content. The third party campaign things I could take or leave.. but the new content was a must. I am sure that like many of us who had FB+AEP+PF already buying Pe-2 was a no brainer. I would have been more than willing to buy SoM & 46 as separate add ons as well even if they were not released as an all ion one DVD.. as it was I bought the DVD... I know many folks myself included who would have been willing to pay for every single thing we got in the mods as separate add ons had they been released by 1C. Did the fact that so many people pirated PF & Pe-2 play a factor in 1C deciding that it would not be worth the time and work & expense of developing more add ons with with SoW in the oven?

Originally Posted by Bandit Bill

Yeah, something about a vague BOB vaporware supposedly coming out at about the same time as Duke Nukem Forever..

Which is why the modders took over, where Oleg et al had left off, with massive holes in the IL2 content.. Get over that.

SoW is hardly vaporware. I wonder if those who maintain this erroneaous line of thought will be man enough to admit they are wrong when the sim is finally released...


That's not why the modders took over at all. If they could have they would have modded this sim earlier. Count on it. This was not something that started after support for FB stopped. This has been going on for years, it just became acessable to a larger group of folks @ 2 years or so ago. When the 4.09 patch came out the sim was modded... so that line iof thought is wrong.