One can see that people are moving on...

[Feathered_IV]

Well, the MMO seems like 1c's last attempt to regain some of the money they have sunk into Maddox Games and the clod over the last five years. For me, it looks like the writing is on the wall for the Il-2 series. This radical change of direction coupled with Maddox Games' seemingly limitless capacity for fiasco does not make me confident that they can accomplish this latest venture on time, on budget or up to snuff.

If the MMO project is a standalone title, one can expect our current sim to be slowly sidelined (as is happening already). And one might also pause to consider how if even the most basic elements of offline and multiplayer gameplay are escaping the current developers, how do they possibly expect to master the complexities of scores, ranking, upgrades and purchases that an MMO demands?

I still check in here regularly. The habit of many years is hard to break. These days the biggest update that I'm hoping to see is the one that says, Under New Management.