Perhaps it is to do with piracy, if that is a good translation, it certainly has lead to the death of some great games that are now only available on consoles i.e. Red Dead Redemption.

The variety of home pc specs was trouble enough before piracy worsened the situation!!!

Remember this ?
 

Oleg Maddox

Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1,029
Attention, about me.
Relating this post:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=17735

I didn't leave 1C.

I haven't been doing only simulators all this time. I'm also doing a lot with photography. For example famous manufactorers, Nikon, Canon, Samsung, etc, give me their latest hardware to test before they hit the stores to look for bugs etc.
What you've read now about me is another sphere of interest for me.

All these things help create new top products.

3DreamTeam company deals with virtual world using advanced game engines (3 at the moment). Can't describe everything but I will say that I am currently managing one of the most promising new advancements in 3D practically for all platforms including most common from PCs to smart phones.

Also read on the site of vizerra.com about aerospace simulation....


maybe that was the first hint we got....


Salute !

Guys we knew about this months ago when Oleg started his new job, i posted it here myself, obviously it was met with the usual barrage from the fanboys. CLOD as been a very difficult project for Oleg, it will be good no doubt but he missed the mark on most of the things he wanted to achieve, whether that was through financial restraints or publisher pressure Im sure we will never know, all the same I wish him well. Where this leaves us for future patches and development is anyones guess but it doesn't look good. :(

DLC sold through Steam...Just like Railworks, or ROF.

There, I said it lol...Perhaps Oleg will still play some part, who knows, but its better to send him the best wishes with whatever path he chooses.

And yes I am still looking forward to COD, hope it doesn't end up like SHV though...

Change is good.
 

I can only guess ofthe level of dedication and commitment needed to complete such an epic task as he has done since the original game. Good to hear that now you may not have to be stuck in an office putting out fires, having to wear six different caps at once. People probably have no clue what type of stress that typeof job has upon his health and even his home life. I am grateful that we have had the oportunity to meet such a man. In most of my post I have often called him Mr. Maddox for a reason.

Here is a poem for you by the English poet Rudyard Kipling

IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Good luck in your future position. May it be less taxing on you and your family. It may seam a little selfish of me, but make sure the guys follow your lead and be sure you'll get my $ and cents for some time to come.
S! C.O. on Deck.

My two cents is that this is in fact about publishers (Ubi in particular in this case.) A telling fact was the name change to "IL-2 Sturmovik..." in the west. Likely they never intended to use Ubi in the first place but Ubi probably had sequel rights to the original IL-2, and forced him to market this as some kind of sequel so that they could lay claim to it.

Of course this is total guesswork, but if I was robbed like that it would sure make me want to leave the industry.

Anyway I wouldn't worry too much, there has been lots of talk about expansions despite the fact that Oleg (I assume) has been planning this for a while. There's no reason the rest of the devs would want to abandon their jobs.

There is always something going around.

Why would Oleg quit? If he couldn't turn this to his advantage now into a even better situation I'd be amazed.
The gaming industry is as big or bigger than the movie industry. Oleg has a niche market and he is the best in it.
What kind of thinking would it take to leave all that, after all the hard work and solid accomplishments.

Oleg could work cooperative agreements with hardware manufacturers. Logitech, CHProducts, TrackIR and others would all be cooperative to have a more favorable situation and get locked in with the application. The hardware guys are the ones making all the money, because you cannot pirate a joystick that cost $300 USD. If you don't like a hardware purchase you can take it back, but there is no way you can use it if you don't own it. Oleg, could make cooperative agreements with manufacturers to accomodate their hardware.

Oleg could require reinitialize registration on every patch,etc. He could charge for every patch. I bought a Sony Vegas Pro 8.0, a very expensive movie editing program. Two months Sony release Vegas 9.0, and six months later Vegas 10.0. Each upgrade was several hundred dollars. Free patches could be strictly fixes and tweaks, with not additional objects or improvements in the application. All additional objects, aircraft, improvements would be in paid for add ons. All addons would be downloads only.

Don't think Oleg can't create alliances with hardware manufacturers and make it stick. Consider the Apple iPHone. AT&T had it exclusive for several years and now Verizon has slipped in, at great expense. Oleg has the iPhone of WW2 air combat flight simulation games. Think about all the console games and how they are hardware dependent. The software and hardware are required exclusive to each other. The hardware is improved and released...then everyone has to buy new games.
I appreciate the hardware independence, but I could sure understand if Oleg or other popular PC game developers made cooperative arrangements with hardware mfgrs. Agreements with hardware manufacturers could also require participating and promoting Oleg's products as well.

Before Oleg, shuts it down it would be well worth the efforts to explore the future differently.

Oleg could work with a console manufacturer, the console would have to have multiple ports and only specific hardware components would interface with it. He might have to work with a Sony or MSFT, if he didn't want to mess with the console. However, he might cut a deal with someone like nVidia to build a console for him... Why would they do that you ask? Because I would imagine if Oleg and other PC gamer developers are feeling the pain from console competition. You can bet someone nVidia, Amd or others VC manufacturers will probably have to become console manufacturers soon. Console computers (that's all they are) is a mature industry. The PC applications like Oleg's will have to move that way, because piracy is taking the heart and soul out of the computer software business.

Don't be surprised when you see large companies like Adobe, MSFT and other with a specific hardware interface. They'll have to do it, and it will be soon, because 1,000s of dollars for a software is too much money, and basically too expensive for most purchasers. As it is the higher prices for software have to compensate for all the piracy of their products, in order to continue to develop newer products.

Hardware dependence could also mean alot more revenues from sale of products especially in countries where they are selling software on DVD in back alleys for $1 each. Locks and hooks could be provided that had specific link protocols built into firmware of the hardware that interfaces with the software link protocols. Piracy would be non-existent with those products.

I see a future for software linked to specific hardware items. I expect to see it with DVD players and many other hardware devices in the not to distant future.
If you insert a movie into a DVD player, the player can have a defined protocol built into firmware that directly contacts the movie distributor for authorization to play or some other weird stuff.

There are already arrangements with Camcorders and such, where you can't do some things that allow copying of copyrighted materials. So, yeah there is definitely a future for products like Oleg's COD. He'll just have to bite the bullet and take on some new priorities for his company.

This:
And THIS:

Alas, drowned out by childish bickering.

PS. Book of the Day. Трудно быть богом. Highly recommended ;)

I call it a finished product, never saw anything else actually promised. Features get cut from game development all the time, be glad you got it at all instead? 6+ years of dev time and a brand new engine plus a brand new game.
Show some appreciation instead.