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Old 06-05-2012, 10:05 PM
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I hesitate to wade into this, but I do feel the need to.

Our British friends (and others to be sure, myself included) are bitterly disappointed with CloD, and it is understandable. The Battle of Britain is their touchstone campaign of the entire war, or even of all time really. The RAF is an iconic service to this day because of their actions in the summer of 1940. It is a "sacred" thing and as such the hopes for it's portrayal in the new sim were at an amazingly high level.

Curiously, those of us on this side of the Atlantic had a similar experience with the expectations for the release of Pacific Fighters. The campaign in the Pacific is as "sacred" to us as the BoB is to our British cousins. And we were as let down by it's release as those fretting over CloD are today.

Amazing similarities abound...

Lack of knowledge of the events.

Lack of aircraft types.

Very poor campaigns for off line play.

And in the case of PF, bizarrely chosen maps, and glaring omissions in maps and other areas of content that left gaping holes in gameplay both offline and on.

I won't even get inot the NG issue.

At least CloD has the right map.

So... here we are.

Most of us are not happy to one degree or another.

I suspect that Luthier and the team are not very happy either.

We all have had our pet kicked in the gut by the suits at 1C, who chose to run Oleg off, and release the sim too early, and to add Steam and it's complications at the last minute.

Will beating each other up in the forum fix any of this?

No.

So why keep hammering away at each other like any of us are at fault?

Why?
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