Storm of War's Life Span? Have Your Guess!

[Flying_Nutcase]

Hoi!

I sometimes think about how IL2 has impacted my life over the (for me) about 7 years and to the future, how Storm of War will do the same.

I know I'm not alone, so come to the party and give us your best guess as to how long Storm of War will be the premier flight sim. It'll be more than just a flight sim but let's keep it focused.

I suspect 25+ years due to the massive development effort required to surpass it, Oleg's proven future thinking and it being moddable, even with rampant changes in technology. Hey, little 'ol IL2's about to hit 10 years.

Flying Nutcase

PS No need for sarcastic comments about its release date.

PPS Maybe we could place bets so someone will get a nice retirement bonus.

[steppie]

I will say 10 years and because in 10 year who know what technology there will be that will take fly sim to another level.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by steppie

I will say 10 years and because in 10 year who know what technology there will be that will take fly sim to another level.

+1

As we have seen wih il2 - as long as it can take advantage of the latest hardware it will have a long life, and who knows, maybe Oleg will end up using it to test the technology for his next release.

Cheers!

[BaylorMax]

It should live a long time as it has had a very long gestation period!

[KOM.Nausicaa]

I hesitated between 5-10 and 10-15, but voted the latter one, because I want to be optimistic. I think anything beyond that is impossible to foresee, as we don't know anything about hardware then, except that it is likely to make ours look prehistoric, just as the one 10-15 years back does now. Anyway, about 10 years is a very very long lifespan for a game or application. Only a very little percentage gets there.

[Antoninus]

I guess 15 year or more. The PC market is in decline, since the last 10 years sims are only a niche market mostly ignored by the big publishers. So there won't be much competition for Oleg, especially not in the hardcore segment. It's increasingly time consuming and thus expensive to develop a state of the art game engine, as we can witness just now with SOW.
Nobody would have anticipated that Il-2 is still the number 1 WW2 flight sim in 2010. Other than the Il-2 engine the SOW engine is especially designed to for longevity and expandability and to some extend will grow with new hardware.

[Igo kyu]

I'd go for 0-10 if it was an option.

I used to fly MS CFS for a couple of years, then CFS2, then something better came along.

With flight sims, you really can't tell.

On my Atari ST I started with Anco's Jump Jet which was so bad I formatted the floppy disk, I went on to Falcon which was well documented but almost uncontrollable on my STe, then on to F16 Combat Pilot, then to Domark's MiG 29. Falcon was graphically a little rough, CP was better and much easier to control, but MiG 29 though graphically less subtle and without the sophisticated weapon options, was nicer to fly, and I suspect the flight model was better.

[swiss]

1st:
IL2 will be dead after the SOW release.

2nd:
I think we can expect an new Flight Sim every 5-10 yrs., can't we?

Hopefully the sim will have lots of longevity, I guess it depends on how advanced/adaptable the game engine is, but from what we have heard it seems that Oleg as got all manner of plans for this sim maybe even tank/infantry sims in future.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by swiss

1st:
IL2 will be dead after the SOW release.

2nd:
I think we can expect an new Flight Sim every 5-10 yrs., can't we?

I don't think we can expect a new flight sim every 5 to 10 years. There hasn't been a new flight sim for the last ten years that could replace the IL-2 series. There are still no new flight sim developers on the horizon that are doing a WW2 sim. Therefore I believe the SOW series will dominate the WW2 combat flight sim market for atleast another 10 to 15 years and probably longer.

The ROF developers could come out with a WW2 combat flight sim in say 5 to 7 years, but currently they are way to busy completeing and improving their WW1 project.