Thank you Oleg for your reply. Although I must say it doesn't really clarify the situation.

This is by far the strangest game release I've ever witnessed. The closer we are to the (shifting) release date, less information we get about the game and its future. News about the release of the game are full of mistakes - advertisements of features that have clearly been dropped, confusion about dates, confusion about the status
of the game - is it a stand alone or just an Il-2 addon...

It looks like captain is leaving the sinking ship, so it would be very nice if someone from the developer's team would clarify the situation a bit...

:(

Subscription based is the way to go . You are the boss , you are a company.

Absolutely agree, why we should buy a "dead" game if its not going to be followed by other games?. You're doing a real damage to yourselves.

rofl

Well, will there be Maddox Games if Oleg 'quits'? I'm not thinking about sequels, there are bugs to crush (evident even on newest videos, although they don't show much), and there are tons of features that are supposedly 'almost finished'. I'm sure we won't get much of that if only the skeleton crew remains, or not even that...

i wonder what olegs statement will mean for cod!

Agree......100% agree.

What i feel now is that CoD is no more no less than Lock-On some years ago: bugged, non completed and released only to recover some money (Ubi) before leaving.

Realese is imminent and we still don't have seen nothing about sounds, wheater, engine managment, clouds, ecc. ecc. ecc.. We still don't have any official info about the flyable aircrafts.

I really hope to be wrong.

We all wonder this i think.

I firmly believe that Oleg is the only one that can deliver us the next generation of flight sims, and Im talking about kicking the Flight Simulator hegemony out of the way for a new milestone with accurate physics and ATC and terrain simulation.

Words taken out of my mouth. If someone ask me year ago for the worst possible scenario of SoW release, I probably couldn't imagine it worse than this. I understand that it's publisher's fault in many aspects, but lead designer, a face behind the series saying that He leaves the project one week before release is suicidal.