Just FYI, SOW is not dead

[crazyivan1970]

Greetings folks,
I see a lot of rumors going around about SOW being dead, discontinued, taking out of webstores, etc...not only on this forum, others as well...

It is NOT dead, and one of the reason Oleg is not around is THE indication of that. They are extremely busy with development, working crazy hours, etc. Oleg mentioned to me that he did not forget about you people and that IF he has time, he will organize some kind of update in the nearest future.

The end

[Feuerfalke]

Thanks for the heads-up, Ivan.

IMHO this is just spilling oil on the flames, though, because these threads come up more and more to raise the pressure. If they are really rewarded by information from this bullying, we will see decaying threads even more often in the future.

[mondo]

Cheerz Ivan. Glad to know Oleg and Co. are working away hard.

If they had worked hard from the start it would be out by now!!

[Feuerfalke]

Don't know, but I'm sure we would still be playing vanilla 1946.

[robtek]

@Tree_UK
even with the smileys it is a "not very clever" remark as long as you do not know how big the workload for the team is.
Or can you prove that oleg and his team have been lazy???
Sorry if that came out a bit harsh, but i couldn´t help it.

[mondo]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

If they had worked hard from the start it would be out by now!!

Maybe, although producing a game these days is an expensive and time consuming process, especially since they are building there own game engine and building an engine that removes all the faults Il2 had with adding new content.

IMHO the be all and end all of this is the community is extremely demanding, to satisfy that demand Maddox and Co. have a hell of allot of work to do, to assume it won't take them less and 3 or 4 years to complete, from proof of concept to gold master is little naive.

Hey relax Robtek, its an English thing - we generally call it joking. No offense taken though.

[334th_Gazoo0]

Originally Posted by mondo

Maybe, although producing a game these days is an expensive and time consuming process, especially since they are building there own game engine and building an engine that removes all the faults Il2 had with adding new content.

IMHO the be all and end all of this is the community is extremely demanding, to satisfy that demand Maddox and Co. have a hell of allot of work to do, to assume it won't take them less and 3 or 4 years to complete, from proof of concept to gold master is little naive.

Further to your point Mondo. I believe with the hardware changes which are ongoing, throughout the development cycle, running changes to the engine and or code itself are probably happening, resulting in a fair bit of rework.
This could result in further delays

[JG53Frankyboy]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

Don't know, but I'm sure we would still be playing vanilla 1946.

you mean vanilla AEP...................