I think the reason he posted is not to "advertise" his mods, but to show what can be done. It's not like he's getting paid for them after all. That said, it's a bit in poor taste to come and "flaunt the wares" in a thread were it's specifically stated in the title that only official modifications are supported.
In any case, just because something is an unofficial mod doesn't make it more wrong or right than something that is an official mod. That's what patches are, official mods. Some things are better with the stock game, some are better with the modded game and all this is a matter of taste. For some "better" means historical, for others "better" means "what i saw in the movies as a kid, the same movies that made me interested in aviation". If people are free to decide if they want to fly with wonder woman view and unlimited ammo, then they should be free to decide if they want to fly with realistic sounds or hollywood sounds, no big deal.
I'm glad SoW will have built-in support for this kind of thing so that everyone can load up whatever they want, then maybe have each server enforce its list of approved modifications just like it's done with the difficulty settings.
Then we might be spared having to explain at each and every turn that game customization does not necessarily equal cheating.
If anything, it gives people more stuff to play around with in a 10 year old simulator and that's good for the developers too. It's about being able to separate what's positive and what's not. Cracking the game code? Bad. Customizing the game through use of said code, so that people still keep flying IL2 after almost a decade? A positive side effect of a bad thing.
The thing is, as much as i like IL2 it's getting a bit long in the tooth and i'll take anything i can get to spice it up. Just because i like to fly full switch doesn't mean i won't try out something else once in a while. In that sense, i'm happy both for the officially supported work of team daidalos as well as the unofficial work done by hobbyists in the community.
Nobody's forcing anyone to use something they don't like after all
