Hm well, I DID paint the immediate future of CoD pretty black, to be honest, but I wouldn't paint it as black as some of you do. I don't think the game will be abandoned, yet I do think that right now, about one month after EU/AUS/RU - release, the game sports as many bugs as at release. Game performance in general has been upped by quite a bit, but in the process, more bugs have been introduced. And, inexplicably to me, new features keep being added while ignoring old ones and the new features mostly end up being facade. Things will get better eventually, though I fear it will be more than 6 months...
What surprises me - or better, reinforces my belief that at least some some people retain adequate brain function, is, that there is a consumer reaction that is mostly well deserved, imo.
People are 'voting with their feet', as we say in germany. As the game stays in a pretty unpolished state, more and more people just opt for something else to play.or revert to their favourite sim. You can 'feel' that a bit by the mostly lacking support by the modding/mission-building community. People currently seem to have no intention to migrate their stuff to CoD, as evident with Lowengrin's fabulous DCG, for example. And custom missions are pretty hard to find either - there's only a handful of them over at airwarfare.com. This is where this game, supposedly expected to generate long-term sales by a thriving mod/mission-building community, gets punished right now. Harshly but adequately, in my opinion.
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