Originally Posted by kendo65 (Post 376103)

That's one way of looking at it. But Luthier mentioned (in the last update I think) that certain aspects (weather primarily) of the game were going to take so long to fix anyway that any patch that brought them into CoD would be released so near in time to the sequel that it made more sense (technically and commercially I assume) to release them integrated into the new game.

I can see why people may not be totally happy or convinced by that but it seems that it is the way it will happen.

I would like to have seen things progress faster myself, but the attitude to the sequel really is a 'glass half empty' or 'half full' choice for everyone - we can either look at it as:

'if we don't get CoD fixed until the release of BfM with the merge, we will be expected to pay again for an unfinished sim that was released with known faults'

or we can look at it in terms of new aircraft, theatre, map(s) AND updated features that will be included and made applicable to CoD too - that is we're not going to be asked to pay more just to get CoD fixed, we will be getting new things for the money as well.

I'm not totally against your pov, but hopefully the next patch for CoD is going to be the one that does most to improve the game so far.

Originally Posted by Abbeville-Boy (Post 376126)

i can't see much of a chance that i would spend any more money on any cod expanshion, but thats just me

Originally Posted by nearmiss (Post 376137)

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Originally Posted by RickRuski (Post 376308)

I for one won't be buying any expansion unless it can be proved that all the problems that are present with the current release are fixed. I will probably wait at least 12 mths after the release of the expansion to see what the results are by keeping an eye on posts at the forums if there are no further fixes to correct the current release. By that time the price will also have dropped just like this one has.

Reading comments from other members I'm not the only one with this idea.

Rick

Originally Posted by Chivas (Post 376351)

If I were you I wouldn't buy any expansions for many years, and think of the money you'll save. By then there will have been a number of features that improve COD, although it may be best to wait for the final expansion in fifteen to twenty years when it includes all the theaters. By then you could have a new computer that could run COD at 200 or 300 fps. What I'm trying to say is COD won't be finished for a very very long time, and will evolve considerably with features we've never seen before, especially when you add in user made content.

Originally Posted by Force10 (Post 376383)

Yes...the nerve of Rick wanting to wait and see if the expansion is worth it. He's just supposed to just throw his money at 1C because they put out a flawless product that shouldn't even be questioned. Everything Chivas listed above is just an opinion on what's going to happen, I think it's been proven with this release that everyone's opinion on what this game was going to be fell far short. I agree that it might be 15 to 20 years before Clod is running good and has all the features that were expected though, so there's that.

Originally Posted by Force10 (Post 376383)

Yes...the nerve of Rick wanting to wait and see if the expansion is worth it. He's just supposed to just throw his money at 1C because they put out a flawless product that shouldn't even be questioned. Everything Chivas listed above is just an opinion on what's going to happen, I think it's been proven with this release that everyone's opinion on what this game was going to be fell far short. I agree that it might be 15 to 20 years before Clod is running good and has all the features that were expected though, so there's that.

Originally Posted by Chivas (Post 376390)

Common Sense and the business plan of the developer tells us that this series will follow the same pattern as the old series, unless of course it fails, which is anyones guess. Confidence in the developer will come back very quickly when and if the sim works. If the sim succeeds everyone succeeds, if it fails we all lose. If you want to throw the developer under the bus with every post fill your boots, I'll try to counter it.