guys, I don't want to shoot your horses.. but I'm almost sure that when 1C & MG are talking about "MMO", they are only talking about the MMO payment model: a monthly fee everyone has to pay in order to can play the game. I'm pretty sure the game & gameplay will remain roughly the same (ie as "good" as it is atm).
Also, this doesn't sound so bad for offliners as you would think: due to the nature of the game (a ww2 sim) and its niche market, they HAVE to add some development for the AI in order to fill the persistent battlefield when the players are not there. you can't have a war happening around you with only a hundred of players online. that's what's missing atm in IL2CoD, and that's what will miss in this "online" version too.
If they
really think about going into the MMO gameplay model, they're over: they were not able to pull this off as it is, going into the much more complicated MMO programming issues (on-fly server load balancing, etc, etc) would be like shooting themselves in their own foot..
thing is, no matter which way they'll go with this, War Thunder is already 1-2 years ahead of them with this: War Thunder IS playing like a MMO atm (battles are instanced dungeons, while the campaign mode is the persistent battlefield).. I see rough seas ahead for our dear IL2 series, unfortunately
