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I can see the ROF business model and the original IL-2 business model being used in the new series. The developer selling large theaters including aircraft, third party's supplying payware smaller theaters and aircraft, and the mod community supplying free and paid content.

Everything in COD will change over the next ten years, alot of it we will pay for. We will get plenty of free missions and campaigns from the community, maybe even some aircraft and cockpits. The developer will be making aircraft and cockpits for other theaters that can be used historically on the COD map. Hopefully third party MSFS developers will start providing payware aircraft aswell. Other third parties will develop and build payware campaigns like the Battle for France and Poland, that could include new aircraft. Many third party small maps will be free, others payware, depending on content. The developer supplied tools will make the content for the new series virtually endless.

The Channel Map will be greatly improved and detail added free by the community.
The developer will add Dynamic Weather in one of the Sequels that we'll be able to add to the COD map for the price of the sequel. Most any new feature added in the sequels could be added to the COD map.

You could argue that some features were promised for COD, and we will have to buy the sequel to get them, but the problem with that is there were never any promises, just features that the developer were working on that they hoped to implement sometime in the series.

The future is starting to look bright. The Channel Map will be just one of a hundred maps that we will be able to apply the latest AI, COMMANDS, FM, DM, Graphics, Dynamic Weather, etc etc etc.