Friday 2010-06-04 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[Abbeville-Boy]

there is a price to pay to keep the game secure, i won't mind too much

[csThor]

Honestly: No game developer or publisher decides when my own PC has to be online. I may grant them the right to check the validity of my copy after installing it (or maybe once a month, after asking me for my permission to do so), but I will absolutely not tolerate a game which tries to force me to stay connected to some online server all the time. Because that, in my opinion, is the stealthy attempt to introduce pay-to-play even for offline games and I will most certainly not stuff my hard-earned € down some publisher's throat (not to mention that the marketing department would surely like to bombard me with tailor-made spam mails).

If SoW follows this trend then I have to bear the pain and not purchase it for I absolutely refuse to sign away my own rights as customer and PC admin.

[Bobb4]

Originally Posted by csThor

Honestly: No game developer or publisher decides when my own PC has to be online. I may grant them the right to check the validity of my copy after installing it (or maybe once a month, after asking me for my permission to do so), but I will absolutely not tolerate a game which tries to force me to stay connected to some online server all the time. Because that, in my opinion, is the stealthy attempt to introduce pay-to-play even for offline games and I will most certainly not stuff my hard-earned € down some publisher's throat (not to mention that the marketing department would surely like to bombard me with tailor-made spam mails).

If SoW follows this trend then I have to bear the pain and not purchase it for I absolutely refuse to sign away my own rights as customer and PC admin.

Relax, take a deep breath. If Ubi were still the publishers AKA Nov 2006 announcement then I am sure Oleg would have no problem saying so

[AndyJWest]

I have it on good authority that SoW:BoB is to be published by a joint company formed by British Petroleum, the Israeli Defence Force, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It is clearly in safer hands there than at Ubi.

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

I have it on good authority that SoW:BoB is to be published by a joint company formed by British Petroleum, the Israeli Defence Force, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It is clearly in safer hands there than at Ubi.

I hear that Maddox 1c company bought Volvo!

@ Oleg Maddox.

I have two questions.

1. is it final that on the instruments reflection theres no pilot to see (ghostflyer)?

2. Might be bit Off topic but in other thread noone recognized it or ...
Will the game support 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound?



Thx,

Hecke

[Tbag]

I've been flying along the coast from Dover to Bembridge lately. I posted some photos on SimHQ before but I thought it couldn'd do any harm if I posted them here again

Near Seaford:







Isle of Wight:

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by Hecke

@ Oleg Maddox.

I have two questions.

1. is it final that on the instruments reflection theres no pilot to see (ghostflyer)?

2. Might be bit Off topic but in other thread noone recognized it or ...
Will the game support 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound?



Thx,

Hecke

I'm not being facetious, but will you really hear a difference between having 5 speakers and having 7?
Why would you feel such a great need for having that difference as to ask the developer about it? Can you hear a difference?
Surely whatever sound we get will be recorded/synthesised/sampled in some way, in order to recreate an as original sound as possible. I can't possibly imagine this would be done in 7 channel sound, though I might be wrong.

Oleg, if you have recorded 7 channels of sound for each engine, please speak up!

[MikkOwl]

Originally Posted by csThor

Honestly: No game developer or publisher decides when my own PC has to be online. I may grant them the right to check the validity of my copy after installing it (or maybe once a month, after asking me for my permission to do so), but I will absolutely not tolerate a game which tries to force me to stay connected to some online server all the time. Because that, in my opinion, is the stealthy attempt to introduce pay-to-play even for offline games and I will most certainly not stuff my hard-earned € down some publisher's throat (not to mention that the marketing department would surely like to bombard me with tailor-made spam mails).

If SoW follows this trend then I have to bear the pain and not purchase it for I absolutely refuse to sign away my own rights as customer and PC admin.

I share your opinion. At release day with online requirement for single player, I would still buy it but only if it was very inexpensive (say 7€). Without that crap, around €50. More if maps, box etc. More restrictions & surveillance = value (and willingness to buy) drops a lot. I skipped Rise of Flight because of the online requirement, but when they removed it I wasn't interested enough anymore with SoW around the corner. But it is possible I will revisit it if SoW turns out to have the same problem.

Animals - Interesting. May add a sense of scale, and of a living breathing world where it isn't just aircraft and buildings etc. I don't care if we can't shoot them. But perhaps to be able to crash into them somehow when ditching.. Oh whatever, as long as they run away from us.

[Red Dragon-DK]

Originally Posted by csThor

Honestly: No game developer or publisher decides when my own PC has to be online. I may grant them the right to check the validity of my copy after installing it (or maybe once a month, after asking me for my permission to do so), but I will absolutely not tolerate a game which tries to force me to stay connected to some online server all the time. Because that, in my opinion, is the stealthy attempt to introduce pay-to-play even for offline games and I will most certainly not stuff my hard-earned € down some publisher's throat (not to mention that the marketing department would surely like to bombard me with tailor-made spam mails).

If SoW follows this trend then I have to bear the pain and not purchase it for I absolutely refuse to sign away my own rights as customer and PC admin.

+ 1.000.000

You are absolute right. For the same reson I did not buy SH5. I have purchase all the others. If they decide to do the same with SOW Im not buying it!