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Originally Posted by HFC_Dolphin
I guess some of you know nothing about economy. If it was like you're saying there would not be Lexus, but only Toyota in this world.
IL-2 and flight sims in general, may not be the most popular games in the world, but no one asked for this. I'm pretty sure that Oleg and his small team are more than happy with the money they've earned from this industry so far. They're not doing this for nothing. They do business in a niche market, that won't make them Bill Gates (but who else can be anyway?), but for sure they make a better living than most of the people here.
And you think that Ubi and other big corporations don't care about their product that much? Not in a million years. They made an excellent profit out of this product and they would be silly to not want to repeat this. And they're not silly, otherwise they would not be that high.
All in all, we all can understand that between starving and being Bill Gates there are lots of levels, and no one would demand being on the top otherwise to starve.
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"Excellent Profit" Relative to what? I agree for a WWII sim the product line is sucessful and part of the reason behind that line of though is all the addons throughout the years.
Actually there are very few Flight sims that are slated to come out and there is a reason for it. There was even rumor some time back that MS wouldn't release a new version of Flightsim for fear of the lack of numbers. Fortunately they went forward with it and FSX is a success.
If you doubt me go to your nearest Game Store and look at the shelves for PC games.