Oleg's Russian Interview Translated

[Chivas]

Tree, I don't remember any Hogwash coming from the developer, he's never "promised" any release date.

Oleg first brought BOB to our attention back in 2004/5 with a "possible" release of end of 2005.

At some point they realised the IL-2 engine wasn't capable of what they wanted to achieve with BOB and started the SOW engine build.

At the same time the third party needed help to finish Pacific Fighters. This left a skeleton crew working on the SOW engine, objects, maps, and features.

I don't remember the exact dates but about this time the publisher UBIsoft announced the release date of the end of 2006? This was never verified by the developer and UBI has never said a word since. From your investigation into the matter, they may no longer be the publisher.

I don't know if they realized the SOW wasn't possible on 2007 computers, or there were still monies to be made with the IL-2 series, but they conscentrated their work on paid addons until the last addon IL-2 1946 was completed.

So basicly the full development crew has only worked on SOW for the last couple of years, and the sales of the addons have helped finance full work on the SOW series.

Again, anyone who has ever developed anything slightly complicated knows that its impossible to give a definite timetable. Oleg learned that lesson early in the IL-2 develpment and always tried to prefaced his comments with the word "hope".

At the Birmingham interview Oleg said he expected a release in Q4 2007, but that's just history. The main thing is its still being worked on.

[zxwings]

Doing something creative is contradictory to having a definite timetable for it.