Any news ?

#1 02-05-2009, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Bobb4

You are kidding? If you really believed that, what are you doing posting "SOW website this and SOW website that"

Bobb what i mean is that currently there is no news on SOW and it is going to be a long while yet, everyone was hoping/ expecting for SOW last year, it never happened. We all thought that once SOW was close or complete then we would officially get 4.09, what has happened because of the modders is that new life and interest has been blown into IL2, i think that was an opportunity that Oleg missed. For the record i did not mean SOW is dead as in a project its just that folk have got bored of waiting and have started using the mods to enhance their flying experience.

Chivas · #2 02-05-2009, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Bobb what i mean is that currently there is no news on SOW and it is going to be a long while yet, everyone was hoping/ expecting for SOW last year, it never happened. We all thought that once SOW was close or complete then we would officially get 4.09, what has happened because of the modders is that new life and interest has been blown into IL2, i think that was an opportunity that Oleg missed. For the record i did not mean SOW is dead as in a project its just that folk have got bored of waiting and have started using the mods to enhance their flying experience.

I agree Tree, he could have carried on making money with the IL-2 series. BUT the game would have stagnated and held back by the limitations of the game engine. Others like the ROF developers would be coming out with a new advanced game engine and he would soon be five years behind the curve. Even console games like BOP appear to making new benchmark strides in combat flight sim development.

We're lucky to have this passionate combat flight sim developer, with a vision for a new cinematic experience. There arn't many of them. He doesn't need us spreading false and negative information that causes even one lost sale of his new product. Our genre market is too small and hasn't been on solid financial ground for sometime.

#3 02-05-2009, 08:14 PM

I understand what your saying Chivas, but then again why did they even bother with the 4.09 beta in the first place? It seems strange to me to release the beta when they had no intention of releasing the finished version until after SOW. That was a mistake in my opinion, which has subsequently led to the mods happening.

Chivas · #4 02-05-2009, 10:21 PM

The 4.09 beta gave the community two 3rd party maps that he didn't have any control over and didn't fit in his business plan to get SOW out as soon as possible. I think we were lucky he supplied the Beta. By far his first priority is to finish developing another money making product for himself, his crew, and publisher. The AAA community would be modding IL-2 no matter what he did, and the AAA community will move on to modding SOW. I'm sure he hoped that SOW and 4.09 would have been out by last Christmas but something this complicated NEVER goes without setbacks.

Asheshouse · #5 02-06-2009, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Tree_UK

I understand what your saying Chivas, but then again why did they even bother with the 4.09 beta in the first place? It seems strange to me to release the beta when they had no intention of releasing the finished version until after SOW. That was a mistake in my opinion, which has subsequently led to the mods happening.

This is inaccurate. The first mods wouldn't work with 4.09beta, so I am told

. That was only opened up later. So releasing 4.09beta had nothing to do with it.

Oktoberfest · #6 02-06-2009, 02:25 PM

And I say : pilots on the ground speculates too much. Go fly online !

Chivas · #7 02-06-2009, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Oktoberfest

And I say : pilots on the ground speculates too much. Go fly online !

I used to fly online until some 110 pilots started killin all the air and ground targets. I felt sorry for the red pilots having to deal with uber 110.