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Originally Posted by philip.ed
Yes, the community has done that, but the team have never responded to say: "that's funny. But seriously, you'll get what you're given". Oleg had promised features like dynamic campaigns, new sound systems etc which doesn't help alleviate the fact that the game has none of these features on release. And despite the glamour of various aspects of the game, I won't fork out the money for a new PC until I know that the Battle of Britain is even in the game.
And regarding release, the game has been in development for a long time, and many were under the impression that the development updates were all obsolete and that the team was actually withholding the holy grail of flight sims. I guess the grail is there somewhere, but it's definite not holy (just holey).
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True, they weren't very talkative but i'd rather have a small team of 25 working on the sim than taking extra time to word updates in a way they can't be misunderstood.
They talked about a lot of features but they didn't really say all of them would be in the release or even when they would come. In fact, when asking for "funky" stuff the usual response was a simple "it's supported by the new engine". No definite commitment as to when or even if it will be included there. They did promise certain features that got the axe and didn't make it in the release, but regarding most of the groundbreaking stuff they usually replied with "it's possible".
This doesn't mean it will be in the first release version, the first patch, or within the first six months of the sim's life, it just means that it can be done. If people want to go ahead and take this as a given certainty it's their problem.
This ties in to the final part of your post: people chose to get deluded and misunderstand a lot of things, then they were naturally mega-disappointed it turned out differently.
I was holding a smaller basket and got exactly what i expected: a foundation for the future inclusion of a bunch of features i would like to see, many of which have never been done before. I didn't expect a complete sim out of the box and i didn't expect the complete simulated battle of Britain experience.
I expected a sort of flight sim framework/operating system with an early war setting as an excuse to actually release and sell it, so that we can do cool things in the future and by the way, that was mostly inferred by the developers' words and how they described things. It seems other members of the community were so excited and impatient they were unable to read between the lines a bit, it's ok, mistakes are human.
In short, that's all i expected and i got it, so that's why i'm not disappointed
