Cliffs of Dover, a Year Later

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Originally Posted by Chivas

The answer to that question is the easiest by far. The investors were no longer willing to keep funding the project. If they hadn't released what was done, to that point, the development would have shut down. Which would you rather have an unfinished sim with a decent chance it will be finished, or no sim at all. Luckily the developers past reputation for delivering a quality product spurred enough sales to give investors the confidence to continue supporting the sim.

I agree, plus they probably had a firm deadline set in contract with UBI which could have been shifted a couple of times before that already. I do not think they had any choice. Furthermore they could not tell us it was not ready because of a NDA.