Trooper, if this were ‘just a game’, then you would be quite correct – we could toss it away as a failure and move on to something else while the developer went bankrupt. However, this ‘game’ is a long-anticipated and much-hyped replacement for the most popular WW-II combat sim ever, and as such has a very devoted and loyal fan base who feel (quite rightly in some respects) somewhat cheated by the lack of previously promised regular updates on the progress of much-needed fixes.

I don’t group myself into this category as my passion lies with racing sims, but I can definitely identify with the sentiment. A realistic fact is that there is no alternative to CloD, unlike most other games (including racing sims), and this produces the noted reaction to the lack news from the developer, as well as the resulting rumours.

i personaly dont need update infos from the developers (i remember the WIPs before CoD release...................) .
As long they do thier work - release workable GAME updates, all is ok.

If not, game will not be used. Plain and simple. pitty for the money, but no catastroph, at least for me ;)

Honestly I am not disappointed at all.
I read Tree's threads before release and knew what to expect.

The game is what I expected a half finished work of art.
It will be completed one way or another.

As for weekly updates, a patch is worth a thousand words. :):):)

I've had IL2 since day one.. I have several other flight simulation 'games'.. and I've been waiting for this game, and despite it's complexity is still a game, for years.. I can't tell you how much time I've spent on forums leading up to it's release, anticipating a monumental leap forward in all of it's aspects.

I'm what you could call 'old school' I guess.. A full career in the armed forces, (now, climb into a full military simulator, and then come and tell me that this is not a game..) Plus, I've always been taught that you don't whinge or whine at what life throws at you.. you just make the best of what you have and get on with it. I carry that philosophy with me in whatever I do, and that includes playing 'games'..

Some of the posters here should get themselves into a high performance prop driven aircraft, and throw it all over the sky in some actual WWII combat tactics, and then they might get some perspective reference a computer game versus real life, and actualy understand that what they appear to have wrapped their whole lives around is just a very realistic and demanding game and nothing more..

I love the whole 'flight sim' genre, in particular WWII, but I don't turn into some sort of crusading avenger just because a game I have bought has not lived up to its expectations.. there are more real life and death issues I deal with that have a meaningful impact on my life..

Jesus.. look at me rabbiting on. Better get off this rather shaky soap box! :grin:

Well i certainly dont want an apology..

All i would like was weekly updates on fixes or what not

I WANT I WANT! WHINGE WHINGE WHINGE.... (that's it in a nutshell really)

Well said Trooper. Of course we'd all love weekly, if not daily, updates! But we have to understand that whilst we ourselves can try and guess what's going on with the team, only they know it themselves, so we have to respect their business model and get along with life.
This, as Trooper said, is just a game! It won't become out holygrail overnight, so enjoy life more and watch the slow transition into something amazing. At the end of the day, if the sim doesn't go under, that is all that will, and can, happen.

Well as well as going out with my GF having nice meals and drinks or maybe just taking my FirebladeRR8 out for a spin or even going to Airsoft and having a day there which i would sum up as enjoying life...

I would still like a weekly update..

i thank you

I know, we all would, but I think the team already knows this (hence why Luthier said a forum manager would be installed).
At the end of the day, these topics have been done to death. The question is though whether this kind of pressure has any effect or not. Maybe we should take it as a good sign that the team have better things to do than post here? :cool:

(and sorry for the caps, it made me sound really rude).

Top words Dave

Despite all the pontificating :rolleyes: the original complaint was rather simple. ;)
Where is the freaking update? :-P