I think it's quite natural that shooting the messenger is always easier than accepting the message.

I'm no young-gun either, Skarphol, but I share your feelings about SoW:BoB and the reason why I am here is primarily the hope for bits of informations being released, too. But that doesn't mean I think i am the king because I will buy this game, nor do I think that Maddox, 1C or UBI do anything completely wrong or owe me anything. They're running this business for a long time and as I posted before, they are literally depending on the success of the engine and the new series. I'm not. My life will go on, even if the project is canceled. I'm not sure for some other people, though...


@ KG26_Alpha
Oleg had nothing to do with Pacific Fighters? That's really new to me. Maybe you can share your informations with us?
AFAIK Maddox and UBI published informations about PF pretty early and it turned out they couldn't deliver what they promised for several reasons. Some, or rather most of them were beyond Oleg's control (partially because it was 3rd Party), but it was Oleg being directly flamed for that misinformation, as well as UBI, who even printed the cover with the wrong planelist. Of course you are free to correct me, if I didn't sum it up right.

Who......!?
 

So….! Who is this Oleg dude and what doe’s a newbie with only 35 posts know about SoW?
Get real!

Viking

Folks dont fight... and dont speculate either... The point of this post is - SOW is very much alive and kicking... and lack of updates, well - that`s another story.

@Skarphol

38 is a very good age (which I guess that CrazyIvan agrees to as well (1970?)) - and I'm as impatient as my oldest son the day before christmas regarding SoW too ;)

@Feuerfalke - I hope that you don't take my comment as a flame attempt as I seldom have any problems with the actual content of your posts, it's only that you sometimes sounds too much like someone defending your own company ;)

@CrazyIvan - The problem is that we are all so curious about that reason for not showing any images ;) As long as everyone at Maddox Games gets their paychecks and work hard (but not too hard) with SoW, I am content... WHEN it gets released is not my problem - I'm more worried about if it gets rushed out of the door or even dropped completely after too many delays. I'm not really concerned about seeing any graphics galore in screenshots either (as IL2 looks good enough). I would however like to see an ingame image or movie to make sure that they are getting close to beta (summer 2008 has been hinted by Oleg?). If they are not, I would be concerned if I worked at the company paying the bills...

I just hope that the next screens released are not images of splendid 3D models again that could be from some high quality 3D Studio or Maya site on the net. They are for sure extremely beautiful and the detail level is staggering, but we've got the message that the 3D models of the planes are great. Show us something else. Maybe some GUI images if Oleg want's to keep the landscape behind the curtain for a while? The problem with that is maybe that the final touches of the GUI are often the last things done with a game (from my own experience at least)...

And finally @Viking - What does someone that registered here as late as in November know ;)

/Mazex

Seven pages already. It just goes to show that many people really are excited about BoB, just like me. More folks come to this forum than any other forum on the 1C website. That also speaks volumes.
Every time a hear those rumors of "vaporware" and such, I ALWAYS say that WHEN BoB is released, it will be far more than we had ever expected. I am patiently waiting, and Oleg will release it when it is ready. He has demonstrated this so many times in the past and should have certainly earned our faith and trust by now.

Of that I have absolutely no doubt Ivan. From where I sit... no news is good news. If it was canceled then we would have been told.. we were told it is being worked on. That was the last thing we got. For my way of thinking , to think anything contrary in the absence of contrary info is just silly and a waste of time.

Eh... I'd wait two more years if I know they gonna make it right...
And I have no indication that it wont be right...
I can understand that game takes long time to make... and they probably don't have as much manpower & resources as big game industry... that may be the reason why the big sharks are producing titles really fast.

I'm more than satisfied with the screens I saw, and vids I saw.
One step ahead, really...

Good times are ahead of us simmers...:cool:
KotS, SOW...


We should be glad that it is happening, because I personally know very very few people that are interested in aviation let alone WW2 aviations, let alone WW2 aviation games...

Therefore market is limited as these titles are interesting to a limited number of people.

And all the stuff that comes with this...

Never doubted that :)

I'm glad for everone that sees no dark clouds on the sky as long as we are promised that the development is still going on. Economy and budgets is something for the bean counters and does not affect great programmers like Oleg and his guys...

Yep - I am obviously a "glass half full" pessimistic conspiracy theorist as I'm really concerned about the economy of this project. Still, the informaton that the development is still going on is good news, but I'm not really happy before Ubisoft (or someone else!) starts a big marketing campaign. Then I know that there is a publisher with the money needed to get this product flying that is a believer too! If that happens, I have no problem with more delays...

/Mazex

Two years, be sure :wink: