Oleg's dream

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

I think it's way to early to be having a discussion about the potential of a 3rd party industry around CoD, especially if you consider that even in the microsoft FS series (the champion in terms of 3rd party industry, payware and freeware alike) it takes a couple of years for add-on makers to move from one title to the next.

I've known a lot of people who kept using FS2004 because FSX was still too buggy, too much of a resource hog, etc etc and the add-on companies were getting similar feedback from their forums. The result was that even today, a lot of add-ons are released both for FSX and for FS2004. Microsoft is developing MS Flight (which is supposed to be next in the series) and yet, people haven't completely moved on from FS2004 to FSX yet.

In other words, it takes way more time for a 3rd party industry to develop around any flight sim. So don't panic just because there's not a few dozen companies churning out add-ons for CoD just yet.

I think the question from op was more to do with, why oleg m. abandoned the game "dream", not why are there no third party activity. Your thoughts on that please, I think he was overwhelmed and tired.

[ElAurens]

Originally Posted by 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!

Exactly, all you lot blaming the boys in Paris need to aim your poisoned pens about 2500km to the North East...

Be Very Sure.

[proton45]

Oleg posted this video on his YouTube account...maybe this is where his dream is going?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCQ_0UEfT0k

[Feathered_IV]

People send him stuff. It is made by a fan.

[jayrc]

Oleg is one man, he did his job, now it is up to his team to get it optimized, can't wait for movies to come out with clod simulation, Oleg Maddox is the' man.

[Timberwolf]

Its simple Anything you buy hot off the grill you run the risk of mistakes and flaws. My dad would never buy a car the first year that model would come out or the 2nd year.

That said you will have people that will buy something and whine till there blue in the face and bash others for there own mistake Or talk about people like they know them or know what that person is thinking and do the talking for them sounds like drama at the ubisoft / 1c company watercooler from people that have no idea what they do

I can't tell you what any of ideas or programming they have come up with or done ....But I know from my own eyes that Ubisoft held back Cliffs of dover from sale in North America for 3 - 3 1/2 months while other websites sold it world-wide at the same time ..So that leads me to think 1C company was given "upfront" money to devlop and bring forth to ubisoft and Justflight to do what they needed to do...sell and make money..Ubisoft pushed 1C to have a release date and already was selling it to Eruope without any upgrades or bug fixes while holding it on lock down in America Maybe because the idea of selling it in a american market it would get bad reviews due to a bigger media market ..Youtube TV gaming shows etc etc ..

Right now with my gaming .. It runs great no real issues
How often do i play? : i don't really play the game
why: I find ingame control of up and down is too bouncy I have yet to line up and level out level with a target
And yes its a game programed setting not my joystick or lag

Oleg...is history

Oleg was a one-hit wonder.

Was a hell of a hit though.

[Insuber]

Oleg's dream brought us a beautiful yet incomplete simulator. Currently 50% of the features planned in the Oleg's era are disabled - according to developers - because they don't work.
Luthier's and 1C plans are still largely unknown to us.
From the latest post, we can infer that there are plans to rework some basic aspects like sounds. There should be also a new expansion, regarding probably the Battle for Moscow.

For the time being, I fly CoD a lot online, even if sometimes it seems a bit empty. I will enjoy it better when the numerous bugs will be ironed out, and there will be a complete simulated world as in Oleg's dream, including ground units and all. IF it will happen, of course. But I'm optimistic. And we will all remember Oleg as a visionary man.

Cheers,
Insuber

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Well, things in the real world don't work out all rose and butterflies most of the time

I too asked for a couple of features i liked and i supported features proposed by others, in some cases with a lot of tenacity because i truly believed they would bring some added value to the gameplay experience.

The difference is that i knew something's got to give, so i was willing to either wait until they get it all done, or buy a half-finished product that contains the foundations of everything we asked for and wait for it to get patched to completion.

The truth is that majority of those people are dimwits, like in any other game community. The thing I found too funny is the fact that those are mostly 25-55 years old men doesn`t seem to change anything. We still got retards bashing the devs constantly demanding a refund. Yes, right now, they want it now or their money back. The patching of the game, developping it like all the rest of famous flight sims doesn`t seem to ring a bell.

I read those posts and I genuinely wonder where were those guys in the past decade? Things just work like that, but they don`t accept this, even if it means the shutdown of the title they`ve been asking so much for.

Just take down a list of names and you'll see that the people who moaned the most about the release delays and clamored for it to be released sooner are usually the ones who today provide expert advice on why the release should have been delayed.

To add to that, a lot of them idiots bring up FPS games as worthy examples of why this game is an unfinished abomination. Do I even have to comment?
Next thing, many people complain that the game stutters. Yeah, but they are asked to give system specs and all I see is a mid range PC at least two years old. Looks like too many people got spoiled by consoles and console games which literally put a PC game market to a stop. So the common knowledge now is that every game should be able to run on max settings on a 2 year old pc. To those folks I have one thing to say : just scrap your pc and return to your console because you are too stupid to use it anyway.

Comedy like this is too good to be experienced free of charge. If they charge an admission fee for every time they contradict themselves things will quiet down very fast around here as they'll recoup the amount of money they spent on the sim in no time, heck some of them could make enough to buy a real Spitfire that way

Maybe. To me it looks like those people don`t have anything else to do. I am astounded how can one be so mad over a 50 buck video game when so many things pose bigger problems? Hell, your car can break down and require a 500$ repair anytime, you can get a 500$ ticket etc. Normal poeple who have lives (ie. things to do) don`t even think of moaning so much over a video game. A normal person who found CoD unplayable just takes it back and gets his money back or puts it back on his shelf for the game to see better days. I don`t get it how one can get worked up so much about it.