Will Mordern Warfare 2 take the last few remaining players from this game?

[dreadnaught_]

MW2 will further erode the active fan base for IL-2 Sturmovik: BOP.

Why?

Because BOP is broken, and MW2 will not be and will be fun to play right out of the box.

[King Jareth]

Yeah cos MW worked perfectly after the open beta..............

[dreadnaught_]

I'm not sure what you're talking about, but I would pretty much guarantee MW2 will be more serviceable than IL2 upon release ...

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by King Jareth

Yeah cos MW worked perfectly after the open beta..............

At least they fixed it

Lets face it, the lack of news regarding a patch here has split the group and pushed lots away, me included.

Way it goes.

[Hrok81]

Mw2 maybe will be the final blow to BoP, but I'm one of those who will NOT be buying it. For many reasons. And thinking of an Fps, I still love Kz2, so I don't need another.

I haven't had any time to play BoP in the past two weeks, but yesterday I managed to have a sim game at 2pm gmt.
And, even without the patch, it was great fun.

[dreadnaught_]

This guy was right on:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=10850

Inside information or not and horrible syntax notwithstanding, he is most likely correct. The fact that the post was locked supports this thesis.

Ever hear of the philosophical apparatus Ockham's Razor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor)?

Applied to the question of this "update," it also suggests that it is not going to happen.

[Ancient Seraph]

Originally Posted by dreadnaught_

This guy was right on:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=10850

Inside information or not and horrible syntax notwithstanding, he is most likely correct. The fact that the post was locked supports this thesis.

Ever hear of the philosophical apparatus Ockham's Razor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor)?

Applied to the question of this "update," it also suggests that it is not going to happen.

Occam's razor states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory.

So.. this law is by definition not applicable to this subject, since there's nothing else than assumptions. Some assume they have the decency to publish the update, some assume they don't. Some assume the publishers don't find it worth it, some don't. Should I go on?
Your assumption that the quoted thread was locked is plain nonsense. First of all, this is the 1C forum, not 505, so it's not like they want to 'cover up' or anything. Secondly, a more probable reason is that the mods don't want, let's call it incriminating topics on this forum stating negative 'facts' that are not backed up.
Another thing that bugs me is that people say 505 won't make any profit off of the update. Of course not, we're not paying for it. The main reason 505 should publish the update is to try to keep their name up. They don't want to be known for publishing unfinished games without fixing it.
As for the money it costs to publish an update, I think 505 only has to pay fees to Sony and MS to test and distribute the update. It's all via internet, so there's no 'production costs' (for boxes and whatnot) or shipping costs.
Frankly, I don't understand why the update isn't here (big surprise). The problem seems to be in a networking error for PS3, afaik, and maybe it costs too much money to fix it, but it that case they would at least have the common decency to let us know, right?
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[xX-SiLeNcE-Xx]

Originally Posted by dreadnaught_

MW2 will further erode the active fan base for IL-2 Sturmovik: BOP.

Why?

Because BOP is broken, and MW2 will not be and will be fun to play right out of the box.

MW2 isn't going to be broken??? haha. You can hack it with a simple hex editor... Do you remember those people that fly around the map? MW2 isn't even out yet and they have found an Invincibility glitch, and alot of elevator (get out of the map glitches) lol

[Lexandro]

MW was hacked right off the bat and was never ever strengthened. The one I saw was the "no clipping" hack were aimbotters litterally walked thorough walls to shoot people. Then they would proceed to spam the chat with link to their dodgey hack sites and proclaim they were gaming gods because they let the comp do the work

MW2 is going to suffer the same fate and worse, since there will be no-one around to remove hackers from a game. The proposed system is nothing more than a glorified auto-matcher, that will easily be circumvented.

[akuma]

Originally Posted by xX-SiLeNCE-Xx

MW2 isn't going to be broken??? haha. You can hack it with a simple hex editor... Do you remember those people that fly around the map? MW2 isn't even out yet and they have found an Invincibility glitch, and alot of elevator (get out of the map glitches) lol

There is an enormous difference between a game being broken because people have hacked it, and the game not being right due to poor design and lack of user testing.

Even if you hold the fact that people hacked COD4 against IW, they released a fix what within 7 days of the hack going mass public, this game has needed a patch for how many months?????