Friday Update - December 9, 2011

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by furbs

True ACE and CLOD has 10x less.

Not only CoD, but most others online sims come in 10x less..

But it is not totally fair to compare a recently released sim to IL-2.

Because IL-2 has been around for 10+ years and has build up a very large base over that time. So I am not surprised that CoD, RoF, DCS, etc all fall short of the IL-2 numbers

Especially when you factor in the hardware equipment! Just about any kid-o in a 3rd world country with a 5 year old PC can play IL-2 on and offline

But it takes a very high end system to play CoD, RoF, DCS, etc. That reason alone is why most of the people I have talked to have not made the jump to CoD, or any other current sim.

But time will solve this problem! Just as long as 1C does not upgrade their graphics engine every year like they currently are

Originally Posted by furbs

As you can tell im still really pissed off that CLOD has turned out this way, im so disappointed because i was looking forward to it more than any other sim than i can think of.

Me too bud!

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of things to be upset about wrt CoD! My only point is if we step back and look at it from a un-biased perspective we will realize it is not as bad as most of the gloom'n'doom whiners would have you belive!

Knowing what a nitch market flight sims are, it only takes a few gloom'n'doom whiners to float a myth that scares off prospective buyers.. And that does not do us or 1C any good!

That is to say, if you only have one GOLDEN GOOSE laying WWII flight sim games eggs.. Are you going to wring it's neck because it only layed 96 out of the 100 eggs you were expecting?