No.

I bought clod on preorder, before the first reviews were out and on trust from the developers, based on their promises and claims.

As it stands now, it turned out to be a waste of money. I'm not especially upset about that however, as I consider my purchase to be a "thank you" for the years of enjoyment I got from Il-2.

Based on MG's current performance, quality of leadership and standard of community involvement, I do NOT intend to provide them with further handouts for old times sake.

I do not believe Maddox Games will profit sufficiently from this debacle to make good on what we have now. Therefore I would much rather support the emerging 777 studios and see some return on my investment.

Hahaha, no. No I wouldn't.
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Personally I feel like RoF was a rip off, you got very few amount of planes and then had to pay £5 for additional planes, IL-2 traditionally has always had free content, yes it has had addons e.g. Pacific Fighters but these introduced toally different games or added loads of different aircraft, maps etc.

I just dont think there is any need for such a thing to be made into a transaction

No, absoloutely no even if it will happen soon with Steam. In the future may be.

Id pay through the nose again quite gladly , getting ripped off once was just not enough for me , where do I sign up.

My thoughts completely,you've said it all mate,well put,the lack of communication speaks volumes about the devs as far as I'm concerned,there is no way I'd spend anymore money on this half baked project.

They need to wise up to the fact that patience is running out and that we're not all going to be hanging around on these forums forever waiting for them,time is running out Luthier,you need to communicate my old friend.

No. If and when CoD is patched up and running as well as IL2, then I'll consider it.

I would only be prepared to pay for additional content on the same lines as what we recieved in the iL2 series.ie:Additional theaters of operation that included relevant aircraft,shipping and ground equipment.
I voted NO for payment for small additions for this game series and will DUMP COD off my system and incinerate the collectors addition I purchased at the games release if this were to happen.

In the shape of well-rounded addon packs, sure!

In the shape of the "insert coin to fly plane" scheme of RoF, or even those "pay to pwn"-field mods - not in a hundred years. It made the full release version of RoF feel like a demo, a demo i had to pay real money for. The RoF model might be acceptable for people who are fully obsessed about the sim, but it really excels at making the occasional simmer feel closed out. Looking back, i feel more satisfied with paying for "The Beta" than with paying for "The Demo".

A little "app store"-like feature where reviewed and quality-controlled campaigns and missions could be obtained... why not? Just make sure that it's very accessible to content authors and does not make free content impossible (the famous mobile phone app-stores don't do that either).

I have to disagree with you here.

Myself and many others had been following development of the game for well over a year and in our enthusiasm for the game had registered pre-orders.

In the run-up to release there was a huge amount of passionate debate :grin: about the quality of what was being demonstrated by the devs. Some voices were very loud in questioning the state of the game but the general consensus view was that things would be 'alright on the night' as it were.

In my own case I found it easier to trust in the devs integrity - they never spelt out ANY potential issues at that stage - than to put too much store in the likes of what people like Tree were saying. There was always a believable reason/excuse from the devs to cover the various issues raised. It was possible to dismiss a lot of the critics as chip on the shoulder cynics.

The actual Russian release became a little like a casino game - no-one knew if the ball would land on red or black until then. When the actual state of the game became apparent the shit-storm started. I still remember feeling sick as a parrot at the news coming out on that day.

I kept my pre-order though for better or for worse. Still had some belief that it couldn't actually be that bad and wanted to support the game.

But to say we all went into this in full awareness of the state of play is wide of the mark.

edit: I'm wrong on one issue there - the devs did announce fairly late on that the dynamic weather and campaign would not be in the initial release but there was no mention of performance issues, epilepsy filter or anything like that until after release