The Last Patch Didn't Fix The Game

[Freycinet]

When RoF came out it was extremely limited and ran like crap on most computers and there was a ****storm like you haven't seen before in Russia and outside from hateful whiny complainers... If it was always up to the "glass-half-empty"-people we wouldn't have neither RoF nor CoD, simple as that.

I played RoF a lot until CoD came out. I was actually a staunch defender of RoF back in the difficult early days when so many simmers were delighted to slag and spout hate about the sim, without giving it a chance to improve. I still love it, but unfortunately just have too little time to fly both RoF and CoD. If I had two lives I would be making CoD videos in one and RoF vids in the other! Still buy all the stuff that comes out for RoF, but at heart I'm a little bit more a WWII guy, so my limited time goes to CoD. - Also, I feel that CoD needs a bit more support against the haters, whereas RoF can stand on its own, since it (deservedly) became such a huge success!

I am still amazed at people who don't realise what an ungrateful niche it is to make hi-fidelity flight sims. All the people who work with CoD could do much better making a mindless first-person shooter. CoD is made with huge ambitions, much to big for the development budget, as history has shown, but I'd rather have an ambitious sim that only over time will fulfill its potential (just like Il-2 Classic and RoF) than a small, limited game without growth prospects.