I bought RoF when it came out with the Iron Cross Edition. Think it came with 8 planes. Bought most of the other planes when they were on sale. When they went with their new bussiness model I had no problems with it. The beauty of this system is that you only get what you want. I mostly fly the Fokker DVII and Albatross V. Under the new system I could've been in bussiness for about $10! Flight sim for the masses! Socialism at it's best. The "rich" subsidize the developement of new airplanes that the "poor" get to shoot down for free!
Now you can say that paying $7 for a colored scarf and a pistol is price gouging. Nobody puts a gun to your head (pun intended) so if you think it's too expensive, don't buy it. I personally think paying $12-14 for a two seater
recon plane I hardly use is too much. I'll wait untill they're on sale in a few months or simply don't buy. Paid about $3 for most other planes. I'm not paying full pricefor gauges and gunsights either.
The monthly fee model would die a quick death. If I spend money every month I want to see something new every month.
Even though it works for a one front sim like RoF I do hope CloD does not go the RoF DLC route. WWI only had the Western front with significant air combat. Even on that one front we mostly see the more popular, late war, well performing aircraft. It's taking forever to flesh out a realistic 1914-early 1916 planeset. WWII had a whole buch of theatres with different aircraft. None of the crap planes would be featured for DLC because they would not sell. Give me a well balanced planeset for each theatre at retail price. Once the SDK get's released 3rd party developers can make aditional aircraft and objects a la RoF.
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