The Crystal Ball

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Originally Posted by JG27CaptStubing

What an incredible Yawn Fest! Everyone trying to figure out what is happening and some people literally fabricating features to make themselves feel better about the situation... Bottom line is you can only keep a team together so long patching and such before MONEY needs to be made. That ship has sailed a long time ago and now that the product is $12 bucks is very telling.

Like everyone I was looking forward to this title. Too bad it has yet to be delivered.

Sure sure we have a bunch of patches but until some of major items IE Sound Graphics Engine etc are finished this product will remain very limited.

I totally agree the sim is unfinished, but the graphics and sound aren't bad, and are still a work in progress. I understand all the problems with off line play, but I actually find missions far more immersive on-line than they ever were with IL-2 1946. Even with all the poor reviews and negative forum posts the development is still working and hiring, so there is still a good possiblility most of the faults will eventually be addressed.

I would hope that people in our very small genre would understand the dilemma, and buy the sim from Steam for 49 bucks, in order that the development had a better chance of surviving. Most of us have enjoyed the original IL-2 for ten years, and the new IL-2 series is the only hope for another ten years of decent WW2 aircombat simming. Or we can teach those B#sturds a lesson for releasing an unfinished product and wait how many years for another developer to do the products we are looking for. Personally I think it will be a very long time as they have become too complicated and expensive to produce.