[RickRuski]

What is going to decide the development of this series (if it finally does carry on) is not whether it will be an mmo or subscription based but how many of the purchasers are online or off line players. Many of the posters here who are the vocal ones are online players, most of the others are the silent majority (the off line players). the developers can't afford to lose possibly 75% of their sales (yes I can hear the screems already from the online minority) if the sequels become online only. If the majority of the sales were to online players there would be demands for more servers to cater for the demand but there isn't. Europe and America would be the biggest markets outside of Russia but I don't see many servers that can't cater for those wanting to play online. Those that are online players would be lucky to be 25%--30% of the sales. If the producers suddenly lost 3/4's of their potential sales the writing would quickly be on the wall to the development team (find your selves another job).
For the future of flight sims I certainly hope this doesn't happen. The lack of communication from all concerned with this project doesn't look good. We were all hoping that the new series would be a success and it still could be, it just needs time.
Maybe the financial support isn't there any more which would be a disaster for all of us (the players and the team involved).
I truely believe that being an online only sim will spell the end of the series.

Finally, regardless of what others say, the majority of purchasers are off line players. If the producers wish to continue with the series there has to be an off line option.