The Pacific Theater add-on started small and expanded to a paid add-on. It was being done by a third party that eventually needed Olegs help to finish. It was never intended to cover all the Pacific Theater. Its a decent sim that had copyright issues and never deserved the bad rap trumpeted by a few people on the forums. At the time Olegs people were working on BOB and they had to be diverted to help the third party finish the Pacific add-on as soon as possible.
There is no conspirancy going on. Its normal business decisions complicated by many unforseen roadblocks, as anyone who has ever been envolved in a development understands.
I'm not sure why they consentrated so much effort on the Pe2 , 1946, etc addons, other than to milk alittle more revenue on the old IL-2 engine. My gut feeling is that the average computer couldn't handle all the features that Oleg intended for BOB, and/or they've run into some very difficult technical issues.
Whenever the SOW series see the light of day, I have no doubt it will be the new benchmark in combat flight sims. The only thing that scares me is the cancelling of further addons to the SOW series due to sales revenues killed by piracy.
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