Oleg's dream

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Slip Ball

I was wondering to myself what the hell happened with the whole SOW dream. I think that the third party interest that Oleg had hoped for did not materialize, causing himself to loose interest and go to pursue other adventures. Without his supervision, perfectionism, I don't see a very bright future for cod...hope I'm wrong

Its way to early for most third parties to become involved, although the Battle for Moscow is a third party addon. COD and the game engine simply aren't finished or fine tuned yet so third parties won't become fully involved for another year or so.

Oleg certainly would never have released COD in the shape its in if he had final word, but the publisher held the purse strings and had final call. It could be one of the many reasons that Oleg has taken a step back from fronting the development.

That said their is still a very strong possiblility the issues will be resolved, and the new series will live even longer than the original IL-2 series. When the mod tools are released there will be much stronger support from the mod community than IL-2 ever had.

[Robert]

Are you REALLY going to compare Madoff with Maddox?

You shoulda kept your 50 bucks. Sounds like you need it. And just because Luthier is not on his knees felating you weekly doesn't mean he's not working on a patch.

Who is Madhoff?

[Feathered_IV]

He's a guy who uses the pyramid-scheme method of fraud. Any link to Oleg Maddox is purely through a covenient rhyme in surnames. Anything else is hysterical nonsense.

[jctrnacty]

I am still hoping that Oleg will return and finish what he begun.

The only problem i see is he relied too much on ubisoft as a publusher instead of this he should release the SOW directly to all sim fans like ED and ROF teams do.

ED split with ubisoft a long time ago and they are doing well.

He could fund the upcoming development with selling flyable aircrafts like ROF do.

[csThor]

You people have a totally wrong impression of what Oleg was and what he could do. Maddox Games was and is just a very small branch of the juggernaut 1C. 1C is comparable in size with EA, just to give you an idea of the dimensions involved. As such Oleg never had that much say when it came to whom 1C deals with. And he certainly never had the freedom to decide to give Ubi a kick in the hinder and publish things alone - those things were decided by people with a lot more say within 1C. He was certainly asked, but in the end it was not his voice that mattered.

[JimmyBlonde]

Uhhh aren't we forgetting that this game is in its' infancy.

Third-parties don't even know how it works yet so how are they supposed to contribute when even the developers of the software are still struggling to tame it?

Sorry, but I find this thread to be irrational and excessively premature. It's now a fact of life that games develop as they grow older, get used to it and learn to love it because the upshot of this is that we end up with an evolving product which, hopefully, improves rather than a static one that doesn't.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by proton45

Yea...the "heart" of the community seems to be non existent. If you show any kind of support for the development team, or what Oleg has done...people brand you a "kiss arse", or a "follower", or whatever it is that negative people say.

They did so before. That didn't change.

Difference now is, that you ask yourself, why you should still show your support.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by Shado

I bet It all went wrong when Ubi got involved...

Are you saying, it went wrong when the original IL2 was produced? UBI got involved in IL2-development over 12 years ago, so that's exactly what you just said.

Well, anyway, I wonder how people can still delude themselves thinking UBI is the big-bad-devilish-dark-evil company wrecking this release, so they can cheer fanatically and celebrate their unholy orgies over loosing a *lot* of money......

[HamishUK]

It amazes me that the blame is apportioned to Ubisoft.

I also get the feeling 1C had a major hand in the reelase too. After all they also need the cash!