New inteview on BOB SOW from Oleg Dec 29,2010

[nearmiss]

http://translate.google.com/translat...3Den%26tl%3Dru

Look for Battle of Britain - Oleg Medox - it should be the first article

You can also just go to www.spread-wings.ru and translate as you will from Russian

[kestrel79]

Interesting read. A lot of it seemed sort of lost in translation. But there still were a few nice nuggets in there.

[baronWastelan]

"It's 90% complete. Unfortunately, the last 10% always takes 90% of the total development time."






J/K

[Feathered_IV]

Very good.

[furbs]

Cheers, did i read it right...SOW on steam?(its early and no coffee yet)

Yes Furbs SOW on steam, which makes sense I suppose, regarding the percentage of the finished game Oleg was saying the same last year and the year before so its hard to gauge where we are at.

[ATAG_Doc]

Originally Posted by baronWastelan

"It's 90% complete. Unfortunately, the last 10% always takes 90% of the total development time."






J/K

Sounds good to me. Give me more time to complete my PC.

[AKA_Tenn]

the only issue i have with steam is that you don't actually own anything you have on it... if the people that run steam want, they can cancel every single account on steam, and all the games everyone has are now gone, and because you accepted the agreement when you made your steam account, you can't do a thing about it...

where as if you have a physical copy of the game, one you can play without connecting to the internet at all, nobody can take it away from you without knocking on ur door, coming in, and taking it/smashing it, and then it would be illegal...

so personally, i'd only get a boxed version if i had the choice.

[nearmiss]

Steam?

Oleg will release a copy for standalone use. It just wouldn't make sense to release only through steam or direct download.

There are too many people in too many places of the world that don't have adequate internet connections.

Many persons will have high capacity computer systems, and there will be those that don't.

I wouldn't get myself worked up over the reference to steam. (suggestion)

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by AKA_Tenn

the only issue i have with steam is that you don't actually own anything you have on it... if the people that run steam want, they can cancel every single account on steam, and all the games everyone has are now gone, and because you accepted the agreement when you made your steam account, you can't do a thing about it...

where as if you have a physical copy of the game, one you can play without connecting to the internet at all, nobody can take it away from you without knocking on ur door, coming in, and taking it/smashing it, and then it would be illegal...

so personally, i'd only get a boxed version if i had the choice.

I would say used to be true - very few games now give you ownership, even physical copies. You pay for the right to access the information on the disk, and tbh there is alot worse and some very nasty DRM out there that comes on disks with games...

*But yeas I agree with you on ownership, luckily I have not heard of this happening on steam before although I may just not be aware.