IL-2 going Steam-powered
 

Take a look at this:

http://www.simhq.com/forum/ubbthread...gonew=1#UNREAD

So it seems the old gal goes Steam in order to squash the crack among other things... thoughts?

I hope Steam will bring new people into flightsims and that this won't be the only way to get games in future.

how will it squash the crack? doesn't steam only update when there are updates, ala 4.09?

Depends on how they configure it is what I've understood.

How does The Steam bring new people to the sim?

I heard The Steam requires internet connection every time you play. Is this one of the things that can be configured? This could be Oleg making the wrong move, perhaps unintentionally, by taking another step toward abandoning his Offline customer base.

Now if The Steam offered Online Pay-To-Play, that would be a WHOPPING different story for Oleg's business.

Hmm not too long ago I was suggesting that Oleg used STEAM for SoW and many seemed opposed to the idea. What you think now? I think its a great idea for many reasons.

S~

Being overly concerned about it connecting seems silly.

I'm actually (horrors!) a big fan of pay to play. I'd happily give them a constant revenue stream in return for constant development.

I'm maintained a WW2OL subscription since beta (i was a closed beta tester) just because I support such a cool idea. It can be pretty entertaining into the bargain :)

it informs a larger amount of people about the existence of IL-2. believe it or not, it's really not that well known outside of the sim communities.

NO.NO.NO.
If never go online?
If I do not have any Internet, so I will never fly Il2 or SoW?
Steam - getaway! I do not need any fu*n third parties on My party!

~S!

It's not a bad idea, as long as it's not the only way to play. No matter how fast net speeds become in the future, i'd still prefer to have a nice box with the discs and some documentation than a few hours of downloading and a pdf file.