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Originally Posted by luthier
I’m sure most of you will agree that we have already supported our release more than perhaps any other developer in a similar situation. Most of you have probably guessed that Cliffs of Dover was not exactly the most profitable project in the world, and for at least the past year supporting it did nothing for the bottom line but put it deeper into the red.
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Is this serious? Support? Where was it? All I got was improved engine sounds (not bad, to be fair), new tracers and some CTRL-C; CTRL-V plane versions (with totally messed-up FMs). I wouldn't call that support. Support is defined as straightening out, and probably bring in minor new stuff into, a
finished game.
As for the less-than-stellar profits on CoD: Do you really,
really not understand why? Really?
Many gaming magazines even refused to test CoD due to its alpha state and postponed it to a later time. And because nothing improved in CoD, that later time never came. Not a good advertisement for the product, don't you think?
A blind man can see that such a sorry game won't attract many buyers. I firmly believe the game could've gotten its "second wind", were all of its issues fixed, but now, that opportunity is gone... again.
And to declare the next patch the "final patch" is the last brick in the 'fail building'. Everyone and their grandparents knows that this patch will do nothing, as all those before. So, those who urge to wait for the patch before starting another round of complaints: Why not just start now?
I just hope that you can survive on the 500-or-so copies that BoM will sell, to the die-hard fans and to the unwitting (which should be rare, since they need to have CoD first)...
P.S.: What's the matter with all that talk about an MMO? Was this ever mentioned somewhere? AFAIR, it was just an idea thrown in by someone for that "big thing that no one else has" - and it swirls around for many months now. Which is almost as baffling as CoD itself, given that those speculations about an MMO mostly come from the die-hards
P.P.S.:I just can't fix the ATI-bug on 1946, otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered for so long
