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

[swiss]

Originally Posted by zauii

25 years sound a bit too optimistic, it will be a spaceage in compareacenss to todays hardware and stuff. More likely 5-10 years lifespan, i doubt even World of Warcraft is alive in 25 years.

I think most people just don't remember how bad the sims(and graphics!) were 20 years ago.

Falcon F16 1988


Best Graphics at the time, 1993
(everybody went uuhhh and oohhh - look, snow on the hills!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=oAdi...eature=related

[Antoninus]

Progress in computer technology was much more dramatic in the 80ties and 90ties than
it is now, at least for gaming. PCs have matured since 1988. Just compare the
improvement in visuals made in 8 years between Aces of the Pacific (1992) and CFS 2
(2000). Eight years ago we had Il-2 just like today. Of course newer sims look much
better, but it's still competitive. There will be new SOW engine titles every few
years or so. Thus SOW engine will receive more updates to newer hardware than Il-2
and age more slowly than any sim before. If they redo all parts of WW2 with SOW
engine and later eras as Korea the platform will be kept up to date for at least 10
years and as we can see with titles FSX, Il-2 or Falcon 4.0 there is still lot of
potential in old sims abandoned by their makers.

1992:


2000:

[ECV56_Lancelot]

Originally Posted by Antoninus

...Just compare the improvement in visuals made in 8 years between Aces of the Pacific (1992).....

1992:

Aaaaahhhh..!!! Nostalgy just hit me hard!
I was 17 at the time, and loved that sim. Played it a lot together with Falcon 3. Until IL-2 came out, it was my ww2 all time favourite sim.