A thought about Cliffs of Dover....

[Volksieg]

Throughout this game's pitted history, I have hated this game and I have loved this game.... there have been moments where I could have pulled all my hair out and moments where I... well.... whatever the opposite of pulling your hair out is.

One thing I did notice, from day one, is that many with ridiculously powerful rigs were saying "There is nothing wrong with this sim! You need to upgrade your PC! You're idiots trying to run something as complex as this on a computer like that!"... and more and more of us "idiots" purchased the product and moaned, complained, tweaked, made do...etc Sure! It did have problems, even for the people with the supercomputers but, tell me, what game doesn't have problems when it first comes out?

I recently bought a new graphics card... the rest of my PC is still woefully inadequate but damn! My enjoyment of this sim has increased by at least 300% (Don't quote me on that... but my personal team of statisticians assure me that this figure is accurate.)..........

So who is to blame for the demise of CloD?

Is it some dark conspiracy cooked up by 777 and those pesky ROF people?
Is it the doom mongers who took every opportunity to snipe?
Is it Luthier and Co?
Is it Oleg whose ideas where far too big?
Is it the fools like me who tried to run a sophisticated piece of software on inadequate hardware and then tied up the team trying to fix an engine to fit my expectations when they could have concentrated on small performance patches and DLC for the few who could run it with little complaint?

I'll tell you who I think is to blame....

The person/people responsible for tricking us people with crap PCs into buying the product in the first place instead of watching on with envy in our hearts as we saved up what money we could spare to finally join the lucky few!

Who was responsible for the specs on the box?

Whoever that person was..... THEY were the true and rightful deserving targets of our anger.

Whoever you are.... well done. You killed CloD.