Announcement of the game "IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad"

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by ZaltysZ

Yeah, but maybe devs feel limited by design of CoD. It may seem different to end users, but in practice it is uncommon to ditch a software project just because of bugs in it, unless fixing them means redesigning and rewriting significantly large part of the project, what implies damage done by bad project management and/or bad architectural design. I doubt CoD has been killed without 1C coming to conclusion that it is not worth to be fixed (speaking strictly from software development point of view).

"Informed" rumors at sukhoi.ru suggest that initial Il-2 team was mostly replaced with new people around 2010. Recently most of new key people decided to leave with only few remaining. As you are familiar with software development can you tell if it is possible to resurrect a software project after 100% of a team left?

If yes, maybe we see a new project based on CloD engine one day.

[ZaltysZ]

Originally Posted by Ataros

"Informed" rumors at sukhoi.ru suggest that initial Il-2 team was mostly replaced with new people around 2010. Recently most of new key people decided to leave with only few remaining. As you are familiar with software development can you tell if it is possible to resurrect a software project after 100% of a team left?

If yes, maybe we see a new project based on CloD engine one day.

I frequently get questions like "Can it be done? Is it possible?" and I usually reply "Sure, why not? Almost everything is possible, but can you afford that?". Lots of wonderful things are possible with dedication and huge amount of money, but the problem is those don't grow on trees.

Lack of help from old team does not prevent further development, it simply delays development, because new team has to invest way more time analyzing the software project by themselves before they can start improving it. This can wreak havoc with planning, because team isn't familiar with project, so they can't say, what they will do, how much time it will take, or even how long they will take before they can say something important (sounds familiar?). Investors don't like such things, so they usually don't risk in such situations, unless someone creditable vouches for project.