Storm of War's Life Span? Have Your Guess!

[AKA_Tenn]

IL-2 won't die till there's enough content out there for SoW, as for IL-2 making it to 4.12 and beyond, it depends on how motivated the voulinteers are once SoW comes out, i suspect they'll stop making the patches and start making stuff for SoW, and we might see 4.11b1m or something

and i doubt we'll ever see another flight sim engine thats specifically designed just for air combat(at the quality of SoW/IL2), we'll probably only see total war sims from now on, ground, air, sea, and in futuristic games, space, all in one simulation, just because their so darn expensive to produce at this quality, the only way to make it affordable is to make it open enough that it suits as many genres as possible, and 10 years down the road computers will be so fast that games like SoW will look to us then, like those screenshots in the earlier posts do to us now, and we'll be wondering why we ever played something that was so limited. don't forget moors law, and advances in not just cpu speed but peripherals, new screens, higher resolutions, even stuff like true 3D (not with stupid glasses) are all highly possible within the next 10 years anyway, the main thing to remember is that 10 years is a long time, and if you look at our advances in the past 10 years, you can clearly see that games of all genres have gone from near stick figures and plastered on textures, to highly dynamic multi-textured, high polygon tesselated, near real looking characters, hell even 5 years ago game engines couldn't render round wheels well, they were just like decagons.

[Dano]

Originally Posted by swiss

1st:
IL2 will be dead after the SOW release.

Usage may drop off but it'll be far from dead, I'd suspect many will continue playing due to performance issues and content.

[swiss]

I think most ppl are ready to buy a new system or at least a new gpu for the game.

look at all the threads asking for sys req. - why is that?

But, yes - a small(!) die hard il2 group may keep playing it.

[KnightFandragon]

Originally Posted by Dano

Usage may drop off but it'll be far from dead, I'd suspect many will continue playing due to performance issues and content.

I know ill keep playing it, IL2 is one of those games that no matter how old it gets its simply to awesome to stop playing =D Just like Mechcommander 1 =D

[WTE_Galway]

It will be bought out by Microsoft who will promise to base the new MSFS XI on the SOW engine. MS will modify windows 8 to only work with MS endorsed flightsims like SOW but will they lose a US anti trust case over it in 2012.

There will be a famous copyright case involving the Eiffel Tower and royalties for use of its image (though apparently its only copyrighted at night). This is resolved by the gaming removing the Eiffel tower at night.

Whilst apparently successful MS drop the entire product line during the staff cuts in great recession of 2015. MS justify this by saying their profits that year had dropped under 10 billion and their shareholders had found that unacceptable

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by swiss

1st:
IL2 will be dead after the SOW release.

2nd:
I think we can expect an new Flight Sim every 5-10 yrs., can't we?

1st - I totally disagree.. There are people who are just now getting into IL2.. and believe it or not there are still people who fly in CFS1. The fact that this sim is still enjoyable after a decade and that it will still run good on 5 year old gear is a testament to the developers and their foresight. I expect no less from CFS.

2nd - Yeah but can we expect a goodflight sim.. Products of the caliber of IL2 are not common.. name another game that came pout in 2001 that you still regularly enjoy..

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

2nd - Yeah but can we expect a goodflight sim.. Products of the caliber of IL2 are not common.. name another game that came pout in 2001 that you still regularly enjoy..

Mario Kart

[Flying Pencil]

It will last over 10 years because to develope something better will be a massive undertaking that only the biggest company will be willing to do.

HOWEVER, the changing face of games in general is also changing. Consoles are more popular then Computer games, and the new generation of players getting hooked on low quality sims.

There is a chance that there will never be another combat sim for computers, just consoles.

[bf-110]

It´s just me or console games are getting worse every year?
I remember the golden age...I played the same game for 5 years.Newest games are made to last 1 month.

[AKA_Tenn]

Originally Posted by bf-110

It´s just me or console games are getting worse every year?
I remember the golden age...I played the same game for 5 years.Newest games are made to last 1 month.

20 years ago, hardly anyone had a computer, it cost a few thousand dollars for a crappy one... there were also fewer games to choose from...today you can get a machine for 500$ that'll play most games out there, and in a family of 4, there could be at least 4 computers around the house... also a highschool student could make a game like doom or wolfenstein in his spare time today... even though in the "golden age" of games they were marvels of technology... and consoles today are just motorolla and intel processors, standard mac/pc's with custom bios's and operating systems, but still standardized hardware that we use in our home pc's/mac's