You guys are hilarious - and I am not targeting this personally just to you Veltro or Bwaze. It's funny how you people are painting all these horror scenarious, criticizing the game even it has yet seen a light of day, looking for signs of ANY indication that things will go wrong with this game and its future development. It's gonna have tons of bugs, oh did you see this graphic bug in this video, oh and its definitely gonna be like Silent Hunter 5.. oh my god, what are we gonna do..blaablaablaa!!

In a week's time at least I will be in the skies ENJOYING the game. See you there and watch your six.

Chill out guys, life's good, go to the gym and get a girlfriend.. don't take it all too seriously - and by the way, I am sure this game gonna rock!

that's all i wanted to say :D

Ok mate, we'll see very soon what's going on.

Life is good? Yes, but also down Spitfres over the Channel is good!

Maybe Olegs feels he needs to step back a bit from the coal face?

With five years of development experience, maybe he's confident that his team will be able to carry on without him looking over their shoulder on a daily basis?

Who knows. It'll be interesting to see how things turn out.


Cheers and all the best Oleg!

We will see what the RAF squadrons will have to say about that!!! :D


btw. Why is IL2 never advertised in shops in the UK, like Game for example. I know they focus on console sales, but surely one or 2 small posters for IL2 or even have it in stock might improve sales. Even on their website under PC titles coming soon release on PC, theres no sign of it. Only Crysissy 2 and TW and some console ports.

Game, dont even know about it mate let alone put any posters up.

This is exactly what I'm afraid of.
Without Oleg I see no chance CoD could take the place of IL2 in the future.

Fine - I don't.
But: I dont' have a problem buying an unfinished product either - as long as I can expect the the add-ons to come in drop by drop.
Read the above.


Interesting thoughts.

According to a survey of march 2011, Switzerland has the highest rate of Mac internet users, 17.x%, the rest of western Europa pretty close to that number - growing fast.
So, on the one hand they are still a minority, but more interesting is the question; who are those people?

Most converts switched because the think the MSOS are instable and attract viruses.
True? No, it's always the users fault. Don't delete files you don't know what they do, don't click yes on pop-ups on porn sites - in short they have no clue of IT. What Apple does is deliver an idiot proof OS, of course this comes with less options when you look a software variety. Everything must be checked by apple first and so on.

Now, a decent flight sim comes with several dozens or even hundreds of different commands - this is the kind of software you can scare the average Apple user up a tree.
Games for apple sure have a bright future, as long as they less demanding, say "console stile".
This theory also backed up by the fact most Apple user prefer mobile devices - while a serious flight sim requires a powerful system and and bulky peripherals; those are requirements which don't go well together.

It's obvious the future of flight sims is locked to pcs, the only questions is: how big is this market share?

I'm tired of hearing the "how small is the flight simulator market" argument.
Why is it small?
There are thousands, or better say millions of people who are interested in flight simulators, therefore it can't be a small market.

It might be small, if your target is to sell 10 or 100 million copies of software, but if that's the target then I'm sad that we're still discussing this subject.

All in all, the market is quite big, especially for small companies like Maddox Games and I'm pretty sure that unless they've signed a really bad contract with publishers, Oleg Maddox (and I guess Ilya Shevchenko as well) will get filled with money enough to spend their time in vacations for many-many years.

well i hope its not true.

He should try the digital publishing on his own without F...king(ubi), i am sure he could earn a fortune.

SOmething like ED, they left ubisoft and did right.

Wrong, there might be millions of folks interested in aviation and ww2, but they would in most cases not have a clue that games like this exists or have an interest at all in playing them.

It is a small market, the pc gaming market in itself is very small and then you've a niche within that which is simulation and then an even further step which is what kinda simulation, theater etc.

It would be ridiculous to state that the flight sim market is huge with millions of customers, the same goes for stating that Oleg , Ilya or the crew would be come millionaires for life on this.(Sad)

I'd much rather have it this way, but your "thoughts" or whatever simply doesn't translate to reality where Call of Duty sends developers on lifetime vacations for doing nothing.

I agree...now I have more questions than answers...Oleg still be involved in CoD sequels? Please, someone clarify

What a confusing and not in the subject statment Oleg.

Could you write it more simply to all expecially about COD finishing project, future develompent and your real reason to quit these project?

Or you cant write the truth for now? Until COD relase or something?

I see some crisis in COD development and i have bad feeling about these game - if it would be as good as it as was to be???

There are already at least two title planned for the engine. I'm sure the engine will continue to be supported. Of course, we can't know for sure how things will be developed if other people take over quality control or corporate executives get involved.

I think Oleg deserves a holiday - regardless of what it might mean for us. He has contributed so much to the genre, I hope his personal interests are put first.

Calm down people. I am sure Oleg has been a driving force behind this game but it's not as if he made it personally. It seems likely that the rest of the dev team will be only too happy to keep their jobs and continue developing.

I guess there is always a chance that some corporate sleazeballs will ruin everything but we might as well stay positive.

Swiss...I was not the one who wrote this message you replied to...;)
Zauii did...

Salute !

fixed, sorry. ;)

There are millions of customers for flight sims as well. Some 5 years ago, Il2 had sold already 5 million copies, according to the Ubi forums.

Cheers,
Insuber

I hope that Oleg & Luthier will clear up the future of Cliffs on the Friday update. There is too much pessimistic speculation going on :(

According to Ubi forums?
Wow, that's quite a source :grin::grin:

Unless Il2 & its add-ons sold around 4 millions in Russia, we're far from the 5 millions.

A PC game sold at 5 millions units would have made titles in all the PC gamins press all over the world....

Not necessarily, if the sales were made over 10 years and are actually by the different installments of Il-2. They wouldn't show up on any list, because nobody would add them together, and I don't think there are many lists that follow game sales over a longer period of time.

Osprey, im offering you the hand of friendship, your attack on me does not offend me mate, us Brits are made of much tougher stuff to get upset by name calling. Be a good chap and edit your post, I personally wouldn't want to see you get banned or anyones else for that matter over a few harsh words.

Oleg

I really hope you stay with CoD. I saw already too many good projects dying (not game industrie, but banking) because key people were not recognized, or because their projects were not trendy enough. Usually people or firms like U*I, which are able to "kill" such projects with their behaviour, have NO idea of how good the project is (or was)!

So please, don't let this happen. Keep on fighting for your project and ask for support wherever you can (I have nothing special for you to help, but if I can do something, let me know!)

It's great, what you achieved with IL-2 and it's great what's coming to us with CoD. Many of us pilots got interested in aviation because Il-2 is created the way YOU wanted it to be!

Please throw your sorrows with U*I behind you for some time and take a break. And then, after that, come back and you'll find solutions for the problems around.

Many thanks to you and your team, in the name of Jagdgeschwader Albatross (12 Pilots regularly flying IL-2 since 2001!).

Great job!

Best regards from Switzerland

Well Oleg, I don't know if you will read this.

I'm very sad that you've left the project, not because the development will/wont stop, but for losing one of the very few people that believes that shallowness of the world of games / world in general. I can't express all the things that i'm thinking at this moment, only to give you MANY THANKS!!! for hours of fun, for tons of new friends that came flying IL-2, and for the hope that someday, someone can make the difference.

A very sad !!see you later!! :(

Has Oleg actually confirmed he has left il2? It's still quite unclear to me.
But what a shocker - a week before the games release to throw about this uncertainty. Certainly does not inspire confidence

You is wrong, be sure.

There are lists and at least someone is following them, if only to pay the necessary royalties.

Btw, if nobody followed the game over such a long time, how would someone in the Ubi forum come up with a 5 million figures?

I don't hate him, and I doubt that you speak for everyone.
It is you who choose how you react to someone else' actions, no one else.
Blaming your own actions on someone else is irresponsible and quite immature.

Just in case people haven't seen it, please link to Nike-it's post regarding future status of the game: don't worry - it's good :)

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...088#post238088

Luthier has posted too.

Also check out Mazex' post earlier.

Blablabla...Ubi bad, blablabla...Ubi bad...

You don't realize that Ubi didn't intervene in any form on this game, except the filter, and that the filter is only a small issue affecting it?

You might see the truth soon.
The first reviews of the multiplayer are abysmal. You think it's Ubi's doing?

http://www.checksix-forums.com/showthread.php?t=167787


The issue here is the Devs' work.

Ubi supported Il2 & all its add ons as well, you seem to forget that.

Well said. 1C had 6-7 years to development these game. How they they made it we know now, question is if they will be able to fix it to accurate level as it was expected by old IL2 fans?