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Originally Posted by Ctrl E
He makes a good point. Bad reviews turn away new sales and the extra money this game needs to continue.
Still no explanation has been offered as to why it was released in such a terrible state.
I hope they can fix it. I so want this to be a success but I have a bad taste in mouth about promises made not fulfilled.
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After a while and after some more patches, word-of-mouth, which is by some considered the best marketing available, will attract more people and hopefully some review sites are at some point compelled to have another look at it. Look at the success EVE and WOW have, although MMORPG's and not flightsims, they are never finished and we can't compare the initial release with today. Bugless software doesn't exist, the community drives the developers and as long as we support the devs, there is hope. If I'm not mistaken the IL2 series are the best combat flight sims in existence, and only because we the community recognized it's strong points and provided positive energy and money. Otherwise support and development would've ended long ago.
So I have no doubt CoD will mature, problems will be solved, and old errors will be taken care of. For example, after the performance issues and lack of FFB, sound probably is the weakest point of CoD like it was in the IL2 series. It's probably the most difficult for the team to solve, and maybe requires a new (expensive) philosophy (= tech) and for the consumer: high-end hardware ... because the technology must be out there (or is already at the studio but comes with a patch in the future).
The best evolved parts which logically are the strong points of the sim are the visuals, CEM, DM and FM. I hope AI as well - don't have the sim yet. These are the concepts that make this engine a landmark and hopefully the basis for the next 5 to 10 years. With this potential, I have no doubt we'll have graphics and sound indistinguishable from real life 10 years from now.