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Originally Posted by jasonbirder
1) What? Apart from LOMAC eh? Or what about the people desperately trying to find out where to purchase copies of the original EECH once they have seen how much better the modded EECH was than the newly released EECH2. What about Falcon 4? The newest version Falcon 4 Allied Force is based upon the hacked/modded Superpak version - and has been further extensively modded with the "Red Falcon" Mod. What about all the CFS3 nay-sayers who have been purcchasing copies so they can try out the Over Flanders Fields and Mediterranean Air Wars Mods? Or taking it one step further what about the popularity of THe Wings over Europe/Wings over Vietnam etc - all completely moddable?
I guess some "hacked" sims do sell after all...
2) Oleg stated categorically there would be no further resources devoted to 4.09 - thats why the code encryption is not being re-worked, no programming resouces whatsoever have been diverted from BOB-SOW
3) Oleg has stated categorically that he would not licence IL2 for development by third parties
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1. Take a look at HL and tell me how many people you see flying Falcon 4 AF. Yeah, you and one other person. lol EECH2, how many are online with that? IL2 had/has the largest online flight sim community. I'm not sure how that will go now.
2. Oleg did state that there wouldn't be any resources devoted to 4.09. That doesn't mean, however, that he changed his mind on the subject due to the chaos going on now.
3. Oleg stated that third party development would be a possibility. He never said it would never happen. That may have changed now though.
At any rate, you or anyone else can't really dispute anything Ivan puts out on the forums. He's a well known, respectable person that is in the know. The fact that Oleg took leads off SOW to work on 4.09 speaks volumes of what he thinks about all of this. Now, I'm beginning to second guess a lot of my own opinions.