I am not so pessimistic about those Updates. What I see coming is all the urgent Updates for CoD coming within the next months, at least everything basic required to make CoD a fun past time then it already is. BoM then will include a rework of the GUI, probably the new weather system, maybe a Dynamic Campaign, reworked Map Editor, stuff like this.
Purely speculative, but that is how I would approach the issue if I were in Maddox games situation. Get everything essential right and add the goodies later.
As a comsumer planning to get each new IL2 title that is an approach I can perfectly live with. However, I can see the dissapointment for those that only are intersted in the Battle of Britian. Then again, everybody how knows the history of IL2, and the controversy surrounding some Title upgrades, especially Pacific Fighters, knows that Maddox Fames never did a good job in the representation of a single theatre. It was the complete package that made IL2 what it eventually became, and that was far from obvious with initial the IL2 release. Il2 was also a hugely less complex sim then CoD now is.
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