Storm of War's Life Span? Have Your Guess!

[BaylorMax]

It should live a long time as it has had a very long gestation period!

[KOM.Nausicaa]

I hesitated between 5-10 and 10-15, but voted the latter one, because I want to be optimistic. I think anything beyond that is impossible to foresee, as we don't know anything about hardware then, except that it is likely to make ours look prehistoric, just as the one 10-15 years back does now. Anyway, about 10 years is a very very long lifespan for a game or application. Only a very little percentage gets there.

[Antoninus]

I guess 15 year or more. The PC market is in decline, since the last 10 years sims are only a niche market mostly ignored by the big publishers. So there won't be much competition for Oleg, especially not in the hardcore segment. It's increasingly time consuming and thus expensive to develop a state of the art game engine, as we can witness just now with SOW.
Nobody would have anticipated that Il-2 is still the number 1 WW2 flight sim in 2010. Other than the Il-2 engine the SOW engine is especially designed to for longevity and expandability and to some extend will grow with new hardware.

[Igo kyu]

I'd go for 0-10 if it was an option.

I used to fly MS CFS for a couple of years, then CFS2, then something better came along.

With flight sims, you really can't tell.

On my Atari ST I started with Anco's Jump Jet which was so bad I formatted the floppy disk, I went on to Falcon which was well documented but almost uncontrollable on my STe, then on to F16 Combat Pilot, then to Domark's MiG 29. Falcon was graphically a little rough, CP was better and much easier to control, but MiG 29 though graphically less subtle and without the sophisticated weapon options, was nicer to fly, and I suspect the flight model was better.