Can we help Clod? Yes!

[Jaws2002]

Yep. Hold your guns until after the patch and I mean the OFFICIAL patch, not the beta. That's what new members are going to see.

Wanting to support the game, and wishing it well, and crediting those who have helped and actively supported it are all good. Call it the crutch credit

But launching a thread with a provocative title and calling critics twats doesn't help the cause much. It's brief and to the point, though, i'll give you that

I'd say too many of the hardcore fans do this, but that wouldn't help the cause much either.

Equally, giving it a higher score than it deserves helps no-one. Two stars is more than enough. If the patch is very good and maybe contains a few pleasant surprises then it might justify those two stars, maybe even lurch towards three, given no dynamic campaign, dynamic weather, or sense of a game, or immersion, or a BOB.

The sense of frustration is wide-spread on all sides. Quite a lot is riding on the patch.

Ben

[ATAG_Doc]

No one needs to drum up support for it. Either they will or wont. This is a very small community. Not a large one. Never has been not even close. Probably the smallest market share there will ever be! It is what it is. Made by people with a passion. The core players are the same.

[HessleReich]

Regrets opening mouth.

[ATAG_Doc]

No need to! Someone else will post the same thing later we can just link to them this one to refer to

[Jaws2002]

There are a lot of people that post bad reviews on Amazon, even for awsome games. Even Rise of Flight got bad reviews on Amazon. I was shocked by the crap some people expect from games.
In the CLOD case tho, we can't honestly argue with bad reviews at this point.

[KG26_Alpha]

My kids/teenagers/adult, over the last 18 months have acquired £5,000 worth of PC/console titles they never play any more due to.

1. Didn't work/too many bugs/unsupported by developers.

2. Rubbish content/finished in one week/bad scripting.

3. Poor gameplay/adaptation/ripoff.

4. Boring/dumb/senseless.

5. Too complicated/unintuitive/frustrating.



They are surprised/amazed/dumbfounded by the fact I still fly IL2 after 10+ years, and we get to interact with the developers for all this time.

They have games that were dumped by the devs after 3 months. and these are main stream titles at £40.00 a pop lasting only weeks before being shelved.

IMO

If you are going to review anything review the whole product including support.


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[PotNoodles]

I think you can tell by some of the 5 star ratings in there that some of the flight sim community tried to make it look good already. Those reviews tell the truth about it's current state and will hopefully deter them from ever releasing a game in such an awful state again. I am still not convinced that this patch will bring it upto a five star rating yet, I think this patch release will be how it should have been released in the first place with more patches to follow. I think then it will be 5 stars, but I think that's another 6 months off. I will write a review when the game is fixed and not until, it would be totally out of order to lie to people and would let other developers make the same mistakes.

[Heliocon]

imo 2 stars max currently. It would be 1 star if I included dev-community communications/promises/rip off factor.