Oleg's Russian Interview Translated

[Bewolf]

I really doubt online hacking was the reason for a possible restart, even though such a restart would make a lot of sense going by the huge confusion going on in the 1C information politics.
It's more likely the scope and projections of BOB were raised quite remarkeably with the realisation of the the online game market and the industry that was created around the Microsoft Flight Simulator series in developing third party content, one of the biggest points in the FS series success. I have little problem imagination that 1C wants to expand upon these expiriences and offer a broadband product suitable for all kinda tasks, in which BoB, like Crysis for Crytek, is more or a less a "very good" tech demo for promotion. That does not nessecarily make it a bad game, but from what I read about the egnines and games refinment with the engine the BoB scenario would be a complete waste, with possible further theater expansions taken into account.

With other words, I think BoB will become much more of a 21th century product with all the features and possiblities in professional gaming for a wide audience instead of an old fashioned straight to the point flight simulation as was IL2 the last real incarnation of.

As with all the other points, purely speculative however.