Just out of curiosity - I really don't recall: was that before or after the latest patch? Also, I still can't shake the idea that most people are having performance issues because they refuse to reduce settings. The overwhelming majority are still running at maximum resolution, 1680, 1920 and above. People just aren't used to making concessions anymore, in my opinion.
Either way - Blackdog, I see your point, but I do think the business model is still feasible. The change from plenty of aircraft variants isn't enormous. The development cost of doing a variant of a plane you have is much less than that of a new plane. If you bought a "plane", you'd probably get all its variants, or a significant portion of its variants. Furthermore, I'm sure many maps could be adapted so that there's a least one flyable plane you could get, at least at first. Suppose everyone would get a basic Zero or a Claude or something for a Pacific scenario. Servers could probably come up with a map rotation that always included the Zero. If it isn't historically accurate, keep the Zero at a more distant airfield, but add the other planes. Whoever's bought them could play them online. The content could be there, just not flyable, I guess.
And by the way, if the message came from the developers pay-per-plane is the only way to keep CoD development going, you'd find me buying aircraft. I'd just be mightily annoyed
