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Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES
I can not speak for all games.. but that is not true for RoF
When RoF comes out with new plane for you to buy (DLC) they also come out with a patch.. That patch contains all the 3D art for that new plane(s)..
And everyone that plays RoF has to dl the new patch to play online..
So everyone has access to the 3D art of the new plane.. By doing this everyone who flys online will be able to 'see' (3D external art) this new plane when one flys by.. But only the people who pay for the new plane get to fly it
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Even though i do appreciate the ROF DLC method, because it doesn't force you directly to buy anything other than the main game (which goes for like 20 € or so, not sure, that's pretty much what i paid back in 2009) and you get big updates for free, it can very well happen that you HAVE TO buy a plane to play online. Overall MP numbers are not impressive, so people are usually playing on one, maybe two servers. And if that server runs a mission with a planeset where you don't own any of the avaliable planetypes, you can either join as a gunner (because you can do that without owning the plane), play singleplayer instead or just quit.
So in the long-run, if you're only interested in MP, you'll need to buy atleast a few of the planes, to be able to play regularly. If you do that during a sale, a single-seater costs like 3 € or so, so it's not that much, especially not for the quality of the planes.
But overall MP players are more "screwed" (also because you need to buy "field-mods" for some planes to get a simple gunsight...) than SP player with that system, which is probably the reason why MP numbers are lower than they could be.
Anyway, i own all planes in ROF and thus have probably spend 170 € or so (can't say for sure), not because i fly all those, but to support the devs. But it was definately worth the money either way.
I would be willing to support the devs of CloD in the same or similar way. If they would support it properly (which simple hasn't been the case this year, except for the sound update, mostly done by a ROF team member) and don't just skip it and work on the next, because then i should've not spend any money in the first place, but waited for the second version. And, even if many here can't believe it, some people WERE looking forward to a up-to-date sim featuring the BoB and don't want to fight around Moscow. So even if many of the new announced features (most of those have been announced for CloD btw
) will make it into CloD aswell, i'm pretty sure the majority of the online community will just switch to BoM instead.