[Fredfetish]

For one lets hope the current bug issues will be resolved in the next patch. If not, then I'm spending my time rather on more fulfilling gaming experiences.

Also, I wish the additional content had more to do with enriching the current game play of CloD. Offline is useless and I have given up on it due to AI plane behaviour.
The strat side of things mentioned by others e.g. why it should be bad for me to just respawn my plane if I see the first sign of damage or why it matters to go after objectives and not just follow my own nose upon take off in multi-player should be of more concern. Addressing these things will add to the current game's immersion and is sorely required. Some mentioned that WoT will be short lived while Clod will have a much more lasting appeal. In my opinion, you are dead wrong. The only tie in at the moment with Clod is the flight experience (shooting someone down is always a perk though), but that is the limit of current game play.

With WoT, the actual tank game play is only half of the experience. Fiddling around with your tank/new tanks, making decision on ammo, calibre of cannon, spending time on the game has a permanent outcome, etc is the tie in...

I see no additional game play elements being added to the flight sim through the ground vehicles playability. Example: I for one will not spend 3 hours driving cross country and get attacked by a flying player that can instantly respawn at his base and attack me in 3mins again. To add to this, the only current reason tankers would do so is to disrupt an airbase. So the ultimate goal would be... drive for 3 hours and then prevent flight simmers from taking off as they spawn? There is no game elements being added, only more unrelated content.

Also, some suggest that this will save the flight sim market. You are once again dead wrong. There is what, 3 small competitors in the flight sim industry? By broadening your market you broaden your competitors as well. There is no way in f*** that anyone playing WoT would be content with a game optimised as a flight sim, buggy as hell, ugly as hell from the ground perspective and with from what I see in the vids not adding any realism above WoT, whilst WoT has almost zero game play affecting bugs, runs perfectly on those +200k players' computers every night and is FREE to play (unless you want some unfair advantage). Seriously? If you want to take on the big boys in their market than surely the "O but flight simming is such a small community" excuse for quality must be addressed first! Staying niche market is the only chance of survival for MG. Unless their only aim is to be bought out by someone that already can compete in the mass market.

Thirdly... I think it is laughable of all the experts on this forum to claim that ground vehicle resources have nothing to do with the other priorities. The common argument is that only ground modellers are involved. One question, what makes these models interact with the game engine? What dictates these models behaviours? Everything is interrelated in software development folks, get over it.

Lastly, I do support Clod and hope the patch solves most of the current issues. Just a little annoyed about the flights of fantasy that some people have on this forum and their response to anyone who's views are based in reality.