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Originally Posted by Music
No word from Grumman?
Alrighty, lets make a new deal Grumman, you make the models, and submit your request to Daidalos Team, and we'll consider adding you to Il-2 the famous flight simulator.
do you wanna keep procrastinating Grumman...
Seriously, I can't understand such a Historic Moment represented in a long lived PC game is almost void of their product, which did a lot to save the world, and they don't care...
Are they owned by Americans anymore?
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This is a subject that has been debated to death.
But to put it simple, this is not a game, it's business. And any product made by Northrop-Grumman or any other businesses affiliated with this company dating all the way back to their foundations are trademarked by N-G. And like anything else that is trademarked or copyright protected you have to pay a license fee to use it commercially unless the owner of the trademark or copyright agrees to something else or noone is around to hold the rights to the trademark or copyright.
Northrop-Grumman don't give a flying f*ck about an almost 20 year old flight sim unless they can make money out of it!
It's not some small avionics business you are refering to, it's one of the biggest avionics companies in the world, heavily involved in the US defence industry aswell as much else. They are all about making money and running a business! And one of their sources of income is people paying license fees to use trademarks they own!
It would be damn bad business for them to make an exception for a near 20 year old flight sim like IL-2 no matter how much we (the players) love this sim!
We can think that it's silly as much as we want, but it doesn't change the fact that they don't have any obligtions towards IL-2 nor it's fans and players. And it doesn't change the fact how the business world works, especially in the US were making money is religion!
Are you willing to help pay such a license fee to get more Northrop-Grumman related aircrafts into the game? Because the only way to get IL-2 1946 officially updated in regards of any Northrop-Grumman product is to pay the license fees and hope that Northrop-Grumman won't hold any old grudges towards this game due to the past sins of it's creators!