Oleg's dream

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

I think it's way to early to be having a discussion about the potential of a 3rd party industry around CoD, especially if you consider that even in the microsoft FS series (the champion in terms of 3rd party industry, payware and freeware alike) it takes a couple of years for add-on makers to move from one title to the next.

I've known a lot of people who kept using FS2004 because FSX was still too buggy, too much of a resource hog, etc etc and the add-on companies were getting similar feedback from their forums. The result was that even today, a lot of add-ons are released both for FSX and for FS2004. Microsoft is developing MS Flight (which is supposed to be next in the series) and yet, people haven't completely moved on from FS2004 to FSX yet.

In other words, it takes way more time for a 3rd party industry to develop around any flight sim. So don't panic just because there's not a few dozen companies churning out add-ons for CoD just yet.

I think the question from op was more to do with, why oleg m. abandoned the game "dream", not why are there no third party activity. Your thoughts on that please, I think he was overwhelmed and tired.