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Originally Posted by mazex
Can you verify that Ubisoft is still the publisher for the western hemisphere? Got link? I don't know but the 1C/Atari co-publishing deal must have put some gravel in the machinery I guess. There was for sure an agreement with Ubisoft regarding SoW:BoB as the only official press release is from Ubisoft, and it SEEMS to be excluded from the Atari deal. Very little public information is available so I can only guess that everything is not as it used to be between Ubisoft/1C/Maddox Games. By the way, as you seem informed - can you explain the financing of this game. Who pays for the development? Ubisoft, 1C or Maddox Games themselves? Who has a deal with who by the way? Are all the international publishing deals going through 1C or does Maddox Games have a "loose" relationship with 1C. Who really owns Maddox Games by the way?
Regarding the claim that all information is channeled through the publisher and their web site, what is really the deal with the images and information in this forum from Oleg? This is the only information that has been released the last year and it's not avaliable anywhere on the Ubisoft forums... Why? Why does not Oleg post there instead if the business agreements between the developer and the publisher is crystal clear and everything is nice and dandy?
/Mazex
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I'm not working with 1C, Maddox team, UBI-Soft or anything. But I do read forums and all the information I post is either posted here, on the UBI-Forums or over at SimHQ. There's nothing secret or insider-news about it. Just one minute of this nice little forum-search-tool or google will do.
You are right. There was a big storm in the fishbowl, when ATARI made the deal official they will publish future products for 1C in the western hemisphere. At this time, SoW-engine was already licensed to UBI, though, and not part of the deal with ATARI. Apparently UBI-Soft was convinced by the success of the IL2-Series, that SoW will be even more profitable and secured the deal quite early.
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/news...searchid=15164
Considering all news and circumstances I guess UBI-Soft does the major part of the financing, while 1C does the rest, so of course they also dictate what information is released, how and when. To put it more clearly: Maddox Games is producing the title, UBI and 1C have licensed or "bought" it, so it is practically theirs. That is probably also the reason why we see those little tidbits of information here and not on UBI: 1C probably uses their part of the deal to put out some information. That is up to them and UBI, though, not to Maddox Games or Oleg himself.
Remember that in the past with all products from the IL2-Line, even every single producers note-clip had to be sent to UBI approved and then was published on their servers. Same is for the patches and downloadable addons.
So, the answer why Oleg does not post just as he likes to, was answered several times, but apparently not in a way that pleases people.
Link (to one of these 1Cs forum btw.):
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...3886#post33886
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Originally Posted by Anatoly
The release dates depend on our Western partners and their plans, so sometimes we can't give an exact answer to this question.
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In other words: If UBI allows informations to be posted, there will be informations posted.