The Crystal Ball 2

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles

Everybody acts like we owe the devs a favor when in fact they owe us big time.

Yeah, ok. You don`t have to be such a jerk about it though.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by carguy_

BoM is day 1 buy for me.

+1 though a Yak is more my style!

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

Guys. Stop apologising. You paid for a promised product and didn't get it.

Now the developers are being incredibly rude to their remaining dwindling customer base.

I strongly disagree with your view.

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by carguy_

Yeah, ok. You don`t have to be such a jerk about it though.

*shrug* Would you be so complacent if it wasn't a video game?

[Ploughman]

"IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer 1C: Maddox Games."

Sounds great, when can I expect it?

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

you want to make an effective statement... resign the board, let them see you mean business instead of just continually whinging. (ie vote with your feet)

Yeah. I remember at least one user who said to be leaving the forum for a while. Sadly, he didn`t last half a day and just HAD to post some more complaints.

Drama queens is what they are.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Sammi79

This forum is getting funnier by the second.

'Oh no, it's the opinion police!' priceless.

'Carry on with your meltdown.' even better.

@Dano - that really depends on wether or not you care if people understand you or not.

I expect some folks are going to feel a bit silly in the end either way -
Patch & expansion released and is good... or,
funding withdrawn and get left with what you've got right now... (a la SH5)

And all those temper typing tantrums achieved exactly what?

Pure comedy.

Cheers! Sam.

Not sure about that. I think it has gone beyond a joke.

But we need to remember that in this genre the most disgruntled customer is only one 'patch' away from being the most evangelical fanboi!

[JG53_Valantine]

Personally I am disappointed that we have not yet seen the patch considering how long ago the alst one was released and the major stability issues we still have to put up with. The game is clearly playable for some (and I have to say I am in that fortunate group of people to a certain extent) however the launcher crashes hit me whenever I fly online anywhere around the hour mark and no matter what I do with settings, cache clearance, game booster etc. etc.

I still think that Cliffs of Dover is a great game and has a lot of potential, but not having the basic foundation of it being stable is beginning to get difficult to stomach. The stability needs to be fixed, everything else is secondary: I can cope with slightly odd AI, "non accurate" FM's and a multitude of other issues: but the crashes are starting to stretch my patience.

Will I buy Battle of Moscow? Yep!! - whilst Cliffs of Dover has been a terrible launch into the new "Il2" series I really hope that we will see this new series grow and mature just like we did with the original IL2 series.

Right now JG53 is in the interim weeks between the Battle of France (which we used as a tester campaign getting used to the new game etc.) and the Battle of Britain - I had hoped for the patch today as that would have tied in great as right now it is difficult for a group such as ours to oeprate a full Battle of Britain theatre simply because by the time we have gotten airborne, formed up and gotten to target we have lost 30% of people to launcher crashes, add in the time to complete whatever objective or engagement is set and you're looking at around 25% of people are most left "in mission" : sure the others can relaunch their games and reconnect but the teamwork is broken up destroying the focus and immersion of missions.

I hope to see the patch soon, even if it simply eliminates the launcher crash issue - the other features I'm happy to wait for, even happy to pay for with the Battle of Moscow addon.
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[Force10]

Originally Posted by carguy_

I sure as hell remember IL2 being a resource hog in 2002. New mid-range hardware was able to run it low-to-medium settings at most, and that meant turning off the buildings. Some poeple just don`t remember where they come from.

I would suggest carguy you go look at the release reviews for the original IL-2 vs the reviews for COD. That is what I'm talking about. Won editors choice and scored very high with most sites and fans. Cod runs smooth for me, everything else about the game is porked though.

[furbs]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Not sure about that. I think it has gone beyond a joke.

But we need to remember that in this genre the most disgruntled customer is only one 'patch' away from being the most evangelical fanboi!

And that is what we all want to be.