A lot of people are talking about this possibility but I suspect that there are legal issues. I wouldn't be surprised if they signed sequel rights with Ubi (maybe even 1C in Russia as well) way back in the beginning when self publishing wasn't possible. Now they are pretty much beholden to those companies, both legally and financially.
Sure if they could have found some way to live and pay rent for the 6 years of game development then they would have had full rights to the game and could have published it however they wanted. But well, rent's gotta be paid and I really doubt the continuing sales for IL-2 were enough to keep things going without getting money from these other companies. I feel bad but I for one bought the entire IL-2 series from steam for $2.50 a couple of years ago. I only wish I had been introduced to it earlier!
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