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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Can a patch for an already developed product be considered vaporware?
You have to forgive these guys.. there was a jerk on another board here who actually created a new identity .. so he could argue with himself .. LOL So bear with these guys..
You shouldn't worry about that .. and frankly even if it were cancelled today and there was no more support forthcoming for IL2 .. what we have would be monumental and something that will probably never be achieved again in the genre.
See above.. this is a fully developed sim already .. these patches are ongoing development (icing) but the finished product is realized (the cake is baked).
Even in it's heyday there were still a lot of folks who had no idea about IL2. Hyperlobby is not a good indicator though.. at one time Hyperlobby would be packed in the thousands.. Now it is rare that it goes over the 500 mark.. but like IF said... this sim is far from being dead or even near death.. In fact it is probably the only 12 year old flight sim still getting new users almost daily..
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Numbers are no more the ones we got used some years ago, but IL2 is still the combat flight simulation with more players online than any other.
CLOD has only one server with high numbers (ATAG) ad it absorbs almost the entire CLOD online community.
ROF doesn't come close to IL2 numbers online.
My opinion is that IL2 is not getting so many new players (I think that if someone approaches sims now will be more attracted by latest generation graphics...IL2 needs to be tasted in the deep...not so many newbies have the patience or the will to do that as a first approach), but that it is holding his community with amazing results.