I wonder if the similarity of the screen shots from "IL2 BOP" and "SoW BoB" is do to some kind of Ubi photoshop publicity processing? If you compare the "BoP" video clip with the "IL2 1946" DVD video clip of "SoW BoB" they don't really appear that similar...

Funny, I could ask you the same question.

And what does this have to do with the conversation at hand, exactly?

I suggest you follow your own advice.

The only flames I see being propagated here are by those who are merely speculating about the future of SOW, and the release of the 4.09 patch, with no knowledge of what they speak.

I think all the discussion/arguments would be quelled if we did have just a little bit of communication from Oleg/crew. For me it wouldn't even have to be screen shots or 3d models it could be just a quick message saying 'making good progress etc', or anything that shows work is in progress. I know its not terribly important to all of us here but i personally think that it would do wonders for all fans of Oleg if there was just a little bit more feedback. It only takes a minute to make a small post. Alas that is not happening and for what reason i really dont know, it just seems a little strange. I used to be a professional drummer and had a record contract, if the band was away in the studio writing new material we always kept in touch with our fan base and let them know what was happening without giving anything away just to keep them on board and informed. This made good business sense for when product was released we still had a fan base. I cant imagine its much different in the software world.

you get the prize for the newbie teen-post of the month

folks, there is nothing strange about people getting inpatient and restless, even doubting BoB is still going to be released.

we had multiple indications at various times that oleg was back on track and a release date was getting closer. he indicated so himself in this forum and several others, not giving a release date but stating he would give regular updates again, which to me indicated the project was coming together and close to beta stage (having been in alpha since mid 2006). now everything has again gone silent from olegs team, with only a few screenshots in 5 or 6 months (err all of which were aircraft being worked on by 3e party, not olegs crew themselves), and ivan now indicates it will be "sometime later in 2009" so obviously another major delay has occurred since jan/feb 2008.

the least oleg and Co could do is release the final 4.09 patch, they stated themselves it would only take a few hrs for one of their programmers to finalize it, and it is now very obvious we are in for major further delays with BoB. under the circumstances no excuse is valid to further delay that patch imo.

if oleg is continuing to stay ex-communicado with regular updates as he originally stated he would resume, i vote we get our old moderator back, he at least seemed semi involved here and fed us a few crubs every once in a while, and also extinguished false rumors when they were gaining momentum. most of the current worst-case-scenario speculations are because we simply have no information whatsoever, and the idle mind is the devils playground.

the questions and answers post our last moderator did were also great, oleg answered where he could, and skirted around other issues where confidentiality was still important. currently the oleg questions thread is a total mess with unrelated post and has become a garbled thread of leg-humper posts, side issues, and contains only a few genuine questions..

Agreed.

While personally I am OK with things, any P.R. move by developers, in any game, is a good thing, as long as it does not compromise developmental security, or violate terms of contractual obligations.

Well I concur with the last two posts by zapatista and El Aurens and I really think it would be a nice thing to release 4.09 official so we can do some proper Slovakia and Besserabia online action.

I ignore kiddies anyway. ;)

Wait wait wait zapatista :) All i said is predicting release in 2010 is a bit far fetched. :D I did not suggest any release dates, but 2008 is out of the question, doesnt take rocket scientist to figure that out. We are 4 months away from the end of the year...

:cool:

And you can't have Evgeny back,as I think he left /got sacked/made redundant/whatever!