one good aspect off all this, 1c kept the CoD engine and did not transfer it to RoF

[zapatista]

the best solution for this merger or cooperative agreement would have been if a management team from 777 was put in charge of completing the BoM sequel, and then develop other sequels in that line (with the same or other business model). but since that is not happening, one good aspect of this "worst of all worst scenarios " is that 1c kept the CoD game and gfx engine and did not transfer it to RoF. most likely it will just be moth balled, never to see the light of day again.

however bad the news is that we will end up with a RoF game engine and sales model for the next "RoF ww2 sim marketed as il2-sturmovik", is that there is some slim line of hope that some other team could proceed forward with the current CoD engine

maybe luthier could buy it or have a cooperative agreement with 1c to develop his korea era sim with it ? whomever would proceed with it could not use the il2 sturmovik name anymore, the other project has the rights to that but the name matters little if the end product based on the current CoD engine is good

its idle hope this early, but in a way there is a good side to 777 not getting full control over that code (since they would strip it and dumb it down). no doubt they will get the 3d models of the planes and objects designed so far by the BoN (? and CoD) teams, but game code itself they dont seem to be receiving