I think 10 years ago I would have agreed with you.... but in the current economic climate it is a matter of sink or swim and, let's face it, at this rate it is glug glug glug all the way.
I am getting to the stage where I honestly think they should just release the SDK, forget any silly ideas about sequels and let the modding community have free reign! Let's not forget that IL2 1946, for all its initial brilliance, is only really as loved as it is, to this day, due to the great work of Team Daidalos and the modders behind UP and HSFX!
I don't mean any offence to B6 who is our main representative from the dev team on this forum.... (I've been there, B6! Nothing worse than being the public face of a company having, justifiably furious, customers screaming in your face all day.)... but I have lost
ALL faith in the developers. I understand that software development is a difficult profession and I get that unforeseen circumstances can jump up at any moment.... but the nature and tone of updates just come across as having the same credibility as a Nigerian Email scam.
If they prove me wrong then great! I want to be proven wrong! I really do! I just have zero belief that I will be, unfortunately, and I know I'm not alone in feeling that way.
People can have a go, defend the devs, get all shirty as much as they please but that doesn't help anything either way as, when all is said and done, the people complaining aren't just trolls... they are paying customers who just want to get their money's worth be they DX9 users (Spit! Spit! lol), medium range machine owners, minimum requirements chaps or monstrous megacomputer more money than sense obsessives.
I do support your call for calm, mind... not because I see a glimmer of hope but, simply, because there are far more important things out there to get an aneurysm over.... wish I had a crystal ball, mind, as in hindsight I can think of a fair few things I would have spent my money on instead of this farce.
I've had fun on CloD and I am sure I shall have more fun if there is even just a small fix to make it as flyable as it was before the recent beta (Yeah.. I know! roll back! ....... and not be able to fly on the same servers as my squad!) but is that down to 1C? Not in the slightest! It is down to flying with some of the friendliest chaps on the interwebs.
Meanwhile, HSFX 6.0 is downloading.....
(Shout out to the "Mighty if 1C would let them be" JG26 and Osprey's bunch who, for some insane reason, resist the temptation that is the Luftwaffe and insist on flying those hellish Spitfires. lol)