The reason the community is small is because a lot of people haven't migrated from IL2 (many of those that did went to play ROF). The question is why?

Personally I think a large part of it is because CLOD provides a much more limited scope for what you can do with it. For me the lack of COOP is the main reason I didn't play more. Then there are the bugs/problems and finally there is the fact that there will be many people who don't have the specs to run CLOD well.

When I first started playing IL2 many people still hadn't migrated from EAW. When ARMA 3 comes out there will be people still playing ARMA II for ages afterwards.

The community isn't smaller (in fact it is probably bigger than in 2002) it is just split over at least 3 games ROF, IL2 and CLOD to a lesser extent.

I'll definately buy BOM (unless it is released as a MMO!) but I'm not sure I have the same enthusiasm for the game as I did. Mainly because for many many years I wanted to play a BOB sim and when I got it I found it surely lacking. Maybe one day we will be able to have a good coop and 70-80 bomber formations etc and play without micro stutter :)

One good thing I did because of COD's teething problems was to try out the free demo of ROF. Nearly a year later and I'm totally hooked. Have just updated to the new version 1.026 and bought some weapon mod add-ons.

By way of a contrast to this forum, check out the update thread for ROF, where everyone is ecstatically happy and full of praise for an update that has exceeded expectations.
http://riseofflight.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=30934

Not posting to gloat or anything like that. I was just thinking that I really (really!) hope that we all get to experience reactions like that here for a COD update sometime soon.

I never got around to buy CoD. I wanted to wait for the release to see what upgrade for my trusty, though dated machine was needed, and then wanted to wait until all the larger bugs had been ironed out, and I'm still hanging around here waiting to see what machine will be optimum in the end. It seems to me the game is in the process of being rewritten from the ground up, buying a rig for a game that isn't really done yet seems a bad idea to me. I suppose I should buy CoD to support the dev team, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I would really like to have my new machine first...

I think the East Front is where the dev teams heart lies, and I can't blame them. Also, as a theatre of war it is much more suited to a combat sim than the Western front and particularly the Pacific Front. When BoM finally comes out, I think it will be fairly polished, just like IL2FB was. By then, CoD will be playable too. So yeah, I'll buy BoM, even if it's only to give the old Hurribuss a spin.

No we aren't the main investors, probably IC publishing is the main share holder. I doubt that the sales of COD came anywhere close to its costs so far. It will probably take more than a couple of sequels before they get to the positive side of the ledger. If the game engine does get fixed, and they can start producing more Sequels, MMO's, Movie making, etc it has the potential to make much more money than the old series.

Fair enough. Just don`t come here flaming the devs when it turns out your new $2000 pc isn`t up to the task.

The PTO, even if from a time perspective was done pretty well, it proved to be a bad concept for a video game. The planes are nice, landing on ships is cool, but searching for them while being lost over full sea was just too frequent ending of a mission. The dive bomber raids and carpet bombing raids did not present even remotely the experience of the same quality as B17/DB3 hunting.

And as a matter of fact, the Forgotten Battles v1.0 screwed the online code completely. It was a reign of laggy games. One of the last FB patches, that was prior to the AEP fixed it finally. FB added lots of nice content but introduced its own set of not-too-small bugs aswell.

If DCS start making more aircraft of WWII and give scenarios according to the reality of time is more than certain that I will leave aside the CLOD

Search your feelings, guys.

You all know deep down that they've given up on CLOD, and they're focusing most of their work on the sequel because Russians will buy it. They're going to cut us loose as soon as BoM comes out.

Don't waste your breath. We're going to get little more than token support for this broken mess.

Why still are people not getting it?...........No COD = No sequel, how can they release a second title 'without' having the main game engine fixed first, so no they haven't given up on COD and all the work being done on the sequel is being done by the content designers and not the game engine coders.

CloD sales

Global Annual Summary (Units)
Year Yearly Change Total
2011 9,034 N/A 9,034
2012 9,638 6.7% 18,672

Europe Annual Summary (Units)
Year Yearly Change Total
2011 7,227 N/A 7,227
2012 7,709 6.7% 14,936

Germany Annual Summary (Units)
Year Yearly Change Total
2011 3,725 N/A 3,725
2012 4,279 14.9% 8,004

France Annual Summary (Units)
Year Yearly Change Total
2011 808 N/A 808
2012 715 -11.5% 1,523

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/53111/i...iffs-of-dover/

You're speaking from first-hand knowledge, right?

I'd love to be proven wrong, but I have little faith in that occurrence.