Oleg, what about SoW and DLC?

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

I'd much rather see SoW adopt a business model like Rise of Flight has. The days of cheap addons and free sh*t are well over. Time to move on and develop as system that is sustainable.

There would be problems, because having the correct aircraft with proper keys in the programming would be critical to having a decent Online game.

Oleg has mentioned how the multiplayer game went to pot when the IL2 code was hacked. This would probably mean "no 3rd party addons" of any kind could be allowed in BOB SOW.

Any openings into the code would be detrimental to the application. Oleg kept the code tight in IL2 for a long time, and then overnight---- wham, that was over. Someone finally found the gateway into the code and it was hacked.

Most of us who have been with the IL2 appreciate the way the code was managed to keep a viable online experience, up to recently.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

I'd much rather see SoW adopt a business model like Rise of Flight has. The days of cheap addons and free sh*t are well over. Time to move on and develop as system that is sustainable.

+1

A niche like ours is really to small to sustain the development costs needed to satisfy the demands here if the games are sold at $49. I think a DLC system like the one RoF uses is a must unless you go the way with a base price of $125 like Steel Beasts Pro...

Sell new maps (large ones) for $10-20 and aircraft for $7-12 and I will buy most of what they throw at me... I must have spent something like $120 at RoF up to date buying all planes and I'm not done buying their stuff yet With the original IL2 model I would have paid $39 up to this date (as all the extra planes would have been free "patches")

My .2 /Mazex

[HanneG]

Originally Posted by addman

I hope this time, instead of releasing tons of free content (new planes, objects, vehicles etc.) in every patch, you will charge for it so you can actually make a decent profit out of the game. Also it gives the customer freedom of choice, "do I want this plane or that tank?" etc. DLC should be very easy to distribute AND pirate-free from the Steam platform also.

Yes please I want to pay mucho for stuff that used to be free and don't get me started with what a pain it has been to download all that free stuff and now all that free stuff is sitting on my harddrive coercing me to play it incessantly... Oh and yeah Steam rocks, I like it when I can't do with my stuff as I please and I like being at the mercy of a company that may or may not exist tomorrow.

[Krt_Bong]

Originally Posted by HanneG

Yes please I want to pay mucho for stuff that used to be free and don't get me started with what a pain it has been to download all that free stuff and now all that free stuff is sitting on my harddrive coercing me to play it incessantly... Oh and yeah Steam rocks, I like it when I can't do with my stuff as I please and I like being at the mercy of a company that may or may not exist tomorrow.

You're not at the mercy of anyone, Steam isn't going to disappear tomorrow and even if it were going to close their published policy on that is to unlock anything that they sell to be playable without it, even now you can play online when and if the server is down. It adds cost when you get a boxed copy with all kinds of printed materials included so for some a digital download is just fine while others prefer something in hand it's all good.