[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by Jumo211

Thanks LEXX ,
I'm glad that I'm not alone, who took since 4.04 wait and see approach.
Who can blame us , the 4.05 upgrade got so many horror stories that they were just too much to overlook having all the hassle after others did download software upgrade to 4.05
It got to the point that we would have to buy something that was almost guarantee not to work because of security piece added to it which happen to prevent many legit upgrades by not recognizing them.
In this case IL2-1946 is hassle free install and yet again worth for me to be a proud owner of IL2 complete masterpiece.
Yes , I myself failed to be patriotic to Oleg after my 4.04M version to carry on beyond with few maps and planes upgrade.
During time the 4.05 version was out , I took for the first time out of curiosity dive in to FPS world of gaming , bought all version of Call of duty, Far Cry and F.E.A.R , even tried demo of Crysis and guess what , at this very moment IL2 continue to be the only game that I play on regular basis and FPS games are all gone from my disk , I never connected with FPS games on personal level comparing to IL2.
IL2 will always have special place in my heart and I can't almost function as a human being without it .
I would never expected in a thousands years that there will be this sudden turn in IL2 franchise development that was done to this very point and I'm sure more is coming if we like it or not.
Oleg will never give blessing to this files tinkering madness , it aint gonna happen and he's surely offended beyond repair by all of this.
It's not all over and end of the world , for every action there is an reaction and I believe at the end of the day things will get worked out with some acceptable solution.
With all this recently amazing attention all over the world about IL2-1946 , this product is now even more legendary than ever before !

Pretty much sums me up as well... with a few exceptions..