Since CloD is over

[Fjordmonkey]

Originally Posted by He111

I still think abandoning CLOD now implies 1C thinks PC Flight simming is DEAD! why do they think that? WW2 buffs getting too old ? young people don't understand WW2 ? maybe ? but good advertising can sell anything .. 1C promoters obviously didn't do their job.

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I'd say that they're probably realizing that the high-end flight-sim market is so incredibly small overall that it's not a market that's hardly worth throwing money at, and that in the case of CLoD that the return wasn't worth the time and money invested into the project. I mean, 8 years or so, and gods know how many millions of $$ into one game? Even with UbiSoft on their back, that's a tad long to develop a product that is aimed at a very narrow band of buyers.

I don't think the abandonment of CLoD implies that 1C feels PC flightsimming is dead. What it does imply is that sooner or later the beancounters and/or investors are going to say stop and then terminate the project when they see that it doesn't look like the investment is going to pay off soon, or in CLoD's case: at all.

After all, it's all business these days. And in business, money talks and bullshit walks. CLoD took a walk, which is sad.

[Ailantd]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

where have you been for the last year? Poor sales is us not getting the wallets out, how many threads have we seen where people happily claim to have bought every flight sim title without playing it just to support the industry? But when it came to cod it all changed and i am scratching my head wondering what they did to the flight sim community that made them turn so sour, promised too much? Really? Even if they fell short on the promises they gave us more than we had ever seen before.

+100

[Ernst]

Just open the source code. The community deserves at least this...

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

Where have you been for the last year? poor sales is us not getting the wallets out, how many threads have we seen where people happily claim to have bought every flight sim title without playing it just to support the industry? but when it came to CoD it all changed and I am scratching my head wondering what they did to the flight sim community that made them turn so sour, promised too much? really? even if they fell short on the promises they gave us more than we had ever seen before.

Yeah, that's what I don't get...

[ATAG_Dutch]

Since CloD is over......

In the words of the late and great James Marshall Hendrix,

'As we all know, you can't believe everything you see and hear, can you?'

EXP - Bold as Love album.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by BH_woodstock

Can we please have the ALL the tools now???
since it is official i was wondering if we can have the tools to do with CloD what we can?I remember it was promised in the past and then we were told "no" because of possible future development,but since Clod is a stand alone and "abandoned" can we have what we need to make it "our" project?This community has been dedicated 100% and it would be pretty cool to have these tools available.
I know there are a few out there that would really like this and would do their best to make it nice.

Originally Posted by Fjordmonkey

There isn't any tools to release. Did you miss BlackSix' announcement on that?

Originally Posted by BH_woodstock

looks like i did miss that one.thanks for the replies guys

~S~

Op's Q answered.

[Fjordmonkey]

Originally Posted by BH_woodstock

Can we please have the ALL the tools now???
since it is official i was wondering if we can have the tools to do with CloD what we can?I remember it was promised in the past and then we were told "no" because of possible future development,but since Clod is a stand alone and "abandoned" can we have what we need to make it "our" project?This community has been dedicated 100% and it would be pretty cool to have these tools available.
I know there are a few out there that would really like this and would do their best to make it nice.

There isn't any tools to release. Did you miss BlackSix' announcement on that?

[BH_woodstock]

Originally Posted by Fjordmonkey

There isn't any tools to release. Did you miss BlackSix' announcement on that?

looks like i did miss that one.thanks for the replies guys

~S~