Cliffs of Dover, a Year Later

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Originally Posted by Chivas

UBISOFT has little input on COD, other than forcing the epilepsy filter, before they would publish the sim in the West. UBISOFT may have a had a good percentage of the investment in BOB SOW in the early years unitl 2006/7, but it now appears that the IC Company is the controlling investor and likely making all the financial decisions. UBISOFT can be let off the hook for forcing the early release of COD, but could still have some investment or contract, which might have forced the IC Company to keep them as the Western publisher, instead of just using Steam. With 8 million already invested I don't blame the IC Company investors for releasing what was completed to see if there was enough interest to continue spending monies on the sim. Why throw good money after bad. Don't confuss the IC Company with IC Maddox Games. IC Maddox Games is just a part of the huge IC Company.

Remember this Chivas...


Posted by TreeUK 28/8/11


For those that were/are still under the belief that CLOD was financed by Ubisoft then read this below, especially Chivas who as been on my case about this for a long time.


Originally Posted By: 777 Studios - Jason

I'm sorry, but I need to say something because your comments are not correct.

1.) Luthier is a long-time friend of mine and you are smearing him with no proof or knowledge of what really happened that caused the less than stellar release of CLOD. Oleg didn't hand Luthier anything. Luthier was asked by 1C to try to finish the project after Oleg was, depending who you talk to, relieved of duty by 1C or he quit 1C. You make the call. Luthier is making the best of a bad situation and he is a good guy and from what I can tell a good manager. My point is you can't blame him for the release or bad decisions that were forced upon him by others. He was given 12 months to correct 6 years of bad decisions made by others. A good analogy is blaming me for every decision made regarding ROF before my company took over. Coming from someone who had to take over a not so great situation I know what he is going through.

2.) Again, you see to blame Ubi for all this. Why don't you ask 1C if $8 million and 7 years was enough time and money for a team to eventually be held accountable for there work and produce a product? Ubi is not quite the monster they are being portrayed as. Again, see my comments about Oleg's departure. Only Duke Nukem' can have a never ending dev cycle and hell even that got released eventually. Bringing Oleg back isn't going to solve anything. 1C loves when you blame Ubi. 1C was the day to day manager and owners of IL-2 franchise, not to the mention the primary funding source so why aren't they held accountable? Some of you hold Oleg and 1C up like some sort of gods and people who can do no wrong which is foolish.

I'm not going to say anymore, but what you've said about Luthier isn't fair to him. There is no need to be an Oleg or 1C apologist.

Jason