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Originally Posted by Tree_UK
There is nothing to suggest this happened.
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Actually, it was Oleg who said they had to release back in November due to lack of funds. I remember it very well, because when the date slipped everyone was up in arms as usual, with many quoting a famous phrase at that time by Oleg as an answer to releasing in November: "i want and i need".
This suggests that they got an extra "lease of life" so to speak to work on it a bit more, hence the delay to the spring Russian and EU releases.
All i'm going to say is, imagine getting a November release and the reactions it would cause, if half an extra year of development wasn't enough to produce a finished sim and resulted in the current forum wars.
Many of the people who are upset now over the unfinished state of the sim where the same people who were going grumpy about missed release dates back then and it just goes to show one thing: the community often has conflicting wishes and some time getting their wish can be detrimental to their own long term enjoyment of the product. Just imagine what state the sim would have been back in November and getting that version for your $40.
This should tell everyone to take everything with a grain of salt and not rush to speculation right away, nor think that everyone of us is always right, all the time.
We've all been going "let us have it, bugs and all, we can't wait to try it" and when it happened we all went "oh, i said i would be happy to just try it on my PC, but i didn't think it would be in this state".
Come to think of it we all got what we wished for all along, a premature release so that we can look at the pretty planes on our own screen instead of via Oleg's screenshots every Friday like we did back during development (even though it happened due to lack of funds and not our own requests), but not all of us could take the consequences of our demands being fulfilled. It's as simple as that really and it shows us all that we can make mistakes and have done so in the very recent past
Most of us regulars in this forum knew what we were getting into all along (especially after the initial reports from the Russian release).
Like it or not, there are things beyond our immediate control and that won't change, it's the nature of life itself. Lighten up and go fly in the meantime
