Thoughts about Friday's update

[salmo]

Originally Posted by Rattlehead

...Really just seems more and more to me that we're being strung along until the bubble pops altogether.

Like many, I pre-ordered Clod to show support for the series, and 18 months later, after so much drama in the interim, this title is still half broken.

I can appreciate that the development team has been put in a difficult position and has probably been between a rock (IC Company) and a hard place (we the consumers) since the start, but at the end of the day, we have not got the product we paid for, end of story.

The tentative promise of further patches, provided we buy the next game, does not sit at all well with me. Isn't this promise of 'better' and 'fixes' been something we have put up with for 18 months already? And to be honest, what do we really have to show for it?

So forgive me please if I don't buy into further promises of patches and fixes hook, line and sinker. Those days are over, sorry to say, as are the days of me buying a product with 'IL-2' adorning the cover and expecting a classy, quality game. Those days are also over.

Now, everything that's said and promised is going to be met with a healthy dose of skepticism, and I certainly will not be buying anything this team puts out until I know for a fact that it's 100%.

Once bitten, twice shy and all that.

Well said. And to highlight the disregard the publishers (Ubisoft) have for their customers, the official game website ( http://il2sturmovik.ubi.com/cliffs-o...ome/index.aspx ) STILL (after 18 months) contains false & misleading claims about the game. eg. "Join a 128-player jump-in/jump-out multiplayer mode where battles can last hours, days or even weeks." => not possible with the porked net code. Advanced physics – wind, lift, turbulences, rain, fog… => No working weather, no fog (never has been) & no rain (never has been). Hell, even B6 said that the weather was "not a supported feature" in the game. In most countries it's illegal to advertise product features that you know are not true.