I think you need to get away from the idea of a 1000 people online playing like hyperlobby. What I have seen online in CoD is similar to RoF, where you have a couple of servers, and <100 people flying at any one time.
No idea why that would be, but it seems to be the way things are these days. On the other hand, I know a lot of people who are currently not flying, either because they are waiting for patches, or their computers are not up to it. Il2 '46 did not need a great computer to play, and running servers was also much easier to do.
People are always welcome to buy copies of CoD for other people, after all its pretty cheap now. RoF can afford to give the game away free, because they know they will get their money back (and more) through selling planes and 'field mods'.
How would the devs of CoD make any money if they gave it away?
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11-19-2011, 02:03 PM
Hybrid Mode
