That's no joke. Week after week, with every update, the same posts by the same posters. Usually using the exact same arguments. Some here are so ardent in their support they should be on the payroll of 1C. On the other side, those of a negative opinion carry on with equal passion. You can almost imagine them throwing things and stomping their feet in anger.

Ace of Aces mentioned those who are in the middle. I like to think I fit in there someplace. As a moderate, again can we ask, that these update threads be locked? Very few of you are as persuasive as you think you are in presenting your arguments.

Not true at all.. I just have a more realistic understanding (read non child like view) and therefore a more realistic expectation than you.

As I pointed out, you and your 'types' expect perfection out of the box..

Yet you would be hard pressed to find any game software that has no bugs

Rest assured you did NOT get banned for saying 'that'..

But I am surprised that you have not been banned for calling the devs liars

So have I..

I have updated several versions of SJack's zINFOMOD to work with HSFX..

And from those data files I wrote the C# code to make a web-based version of IL-2Compare that you can see here

www.flightsimtesting.com

And not only that..

I actully get paid for writing software at work..

So I know a thing or two about software development, and bugs, and how things can come up that cause delays

And there is where you show your software ignorance.. In that it is much easier to 'tweak' and existing Java file than it is to write a game from scratch..

And when I say from scratch I mean taking a chance and looking to the future and writing a game from scratch that makes use of the cutting edge gaming aspects.. Like taking on the DX11 API instead of playing it safe and writing a DX9 game.

I bought it day one also, and it took them longer than that to fix everything.. And even longer to put in some of the features they have now.. A perfect example being the ability to see planes at a distance, something that made the game unplayable for me (my standards) the way planes use to suddenly appear and disappear at a certain distance.

Well maybe RoF communications with their customers is better because they don't have guys like you posting in their forums and calling them liars each time they post and update..

Just a thought!

Again.. Your showing your ignorance..

I have had plenty of negative things to say about CoD..

What separates me from you is I don't have a hissy fit when something gets delayed such that I feel the need to call them liars..

I guess that is just something you eventually learn living and working in the real adult world..

You mileage may and clearly does vary

Yeah..a Ford Pinto ran right "out of the box" too, but then it would catch fire and blow up if you hit it too hard, so whats your point?

As to Russian gamers, I know many, one very close friend who just got his degree in engineering, and his starting salary was 450 a month, hes 25 and lives with his parents, like most young Russians. After he pays for gas to and from work, helps out with food, this and that, he's lucky if he has two roubles at the end of the month to rub together, so if this is the gamer the devs are trying to accomodate, I can understand why. Not many people there buying 600 dollar gpus. These games sell for very little in Russia, and like everything else, are pirated up the wazoo, if you want a TRUE retail copy of win 7 64 it will be behind glass in a store and twice or more the price here, EVERYONE except fortune 500 western companies run pirated microsoft software, and rarely run anti virus so everything gets buggered up, so don't expect them to be running western gaming rigs anytime soon. Its just not feasible for them.

Ohh, and lest I forget, since you need a good inernet connection to play the game, and most people live in soviet built monster housing units and krushev apt blocks, forget about individuals having access to good high speed internet. All in all, I can't see the reason to focus on the "eastern europe" market, the real money is in the West. I understand they are trying to support the Russian market, but the Russian market can't be compared to the West. Either way, it leaves those in the West waiting.

15% today and in the next 12 months that number will be much smaller and even smaller over the next 24 months.

This sim has much longer legs - a longer life tragectory like the old sim it's been around a very long time.

Remember just 10 years ago mobile phones were not affordable for the vast majority of people but now they are every where. Tablets now outsell laptops and desktops. You handly find anyone without a smart phone or tablet.

In other words the money spent on developing an advanced sim to satisfy 15% is not money well spent.

But its not my business. Just a customer.

I don't smoke "cigs" nor quaff a lot of beer, but the beer I do drink you probably couldn't find nor afford, I guess you assume those that have issues with the game live in a cardbox box, wear wife beater tee shirts, and are on the dole? Btw, you can keep your 50, don't need it ;) . Also, the correct term is "piss" it away, not "pee" it away, check your thesaurus.

Think you have been spending a bit too much time sunning in the "socal" wine country, your elitist attitude is in full bloom.

i still have xp, maybe xmas will change that

Parked in my 110 I've just watched a dogfight above my head among a Spit and a couple of 109s. With closed canopy - very few noises, but with open canopy every sound was rendered very well: far engines roaring, flak bursts, distant machine guns ... awsome!


Bravo to the 1C team, keep going like that!

There...I fixed that for ya

HEY! I was gonna do that!

Later we attacked Wellingtons, three Bf-110 against 5 heavies; it was like watching a movie, with the smoke trails of cannon shells twirling around, and smoke and flames bursting from wounded bombers. Again, wonderful show. The game ran fluid without an issue.

This sim is already a jewel, and in future it can be a milestone of the genre. Stop bashing it, please.