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Originally Posted by TinyTim
Cliffs of Dover can't be compared to 1946. If anything, it should be compared to initial Il-2 Sturmovik v1.00 (which, when you mention it, had even less flyables than CoD).
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This might sound like a reasonable excuse in the first place. But have you considered comparing the development background of the 2 games? IL2 was developed completely from scratch in 1999 while when Oleg started developing the first version (deprecated) of BoB in 2004, he had accumulated 5 years's (2004-1999) experience in flight simulation industry.
When the development of second BoB (nowadays CoD) started in 2007, his men had accumulated about 8 year's experience.
In my opinion, the failure of BoB is mainly due to a way too big and impractical ambition. They had spent too much time on things that are not so important for a flight sim, like high-poly ground objects, controllable AAA, waving grass on the ground. They wanted to develop a ground simulation within BoB. When CoD was released, they even failed to make an improved AI system. The AI of CoD is obviously ported from IL2. The FM and DM was also problematic. Let alone the awful sound system and the much inferior GUI.
They have lost their initial goal in this self-delusion. They had forgot that they were making a flight simulation game. It is just funny that they even planned to attract third-party developers from FSX with such a semi-finished product.
I'm sure Oleg knew all of these very well during the later stage of development. To fulfil his ambitious goal still needs a lot of time. But due to the all-known reason, he decided to deceive us with those Friday updates and promising Q&As to cheat us into pre-purchasing this $49.99 game. Maybe he is a talented flight sim developer. But he failed to live up to the expectation that his fans have laid on him. It's sad but bloodily true.
In my humble opinion, in order to achieve the similar success of FB+AEP, CoD still needs 1 year's development for the least. If it goes that far, I will consider buying the game. For now IL2 (stock) is far enough for me to ignore CoD.