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Originally Posted by Majo

We were so happy in our ignorance... throwing things one to another without much criteria.

Now that we really start to know this is turning way too ugly.

I keep CLOD in my HD and I try to play 4 or 5 hours a week mainly offline because I still have many issues online. I just cannot take it seriously in its actual state. I follow the update threads in the forums, look for the efforts of the community to add value, dynamic campaigns, new setups, mods, try new tricks a so on… I want to believe, really.

Il2 & saga is probably the only software related item of which I know the names of some people behind the product. It was very interesting to see how distinguished members of the community were able to establish some kind of communication with the staff of IL2 and especially with Oleg. He once answered one of my questions… not being myself a distinguished members, of course.

Things were very different back then. The product was different.

IMHO we first need a product that can be taken seriously in order to recover that level of communication. We also need to be constantly reminded that the people behind the product are doing all they can to help us take this product in a serious manner. I do not need so much to know about the reasons but to know about the improvements-results.

Silence sometime can be deafening.

Salutes

That is the best post I've read all day and I couldn't agree more.

I've been very forgiving of the flight sim genre in terms of development and the like as it's what I love to play. I knew full well the state CoD was in at release and yet I still forked over my hard earned money for the CE because I wanted to supoort it as much as I could. I know Tree can be provactive but the quote he has presented (and if true) has proven to me that, once again, it's the paying customer who gets F$%KED over time and time again, and I'm over it.

As it stands right now there is nothing that makes me want to want to fly CoD in it's current state. STEAM says I've got 16 hours in total playing / flying CoD. If thats true then I can guarentee that 95% of that time has been flying the Ju88 in autopilot while trying to tweaking the settings to get it to run smoothly or just goofing around. The only aircraft I have spent any time on has been the 110 and I needed to relying on YouTube videos to learn how to get the thing in the air. After then seeing the damage modeling in action in the current patch (i.e. trees have no impact) I gave up. I have yet to find anything in CoD that makes me want to take this sim as seriously as I did with the previous versions of IL-2.

Right now, no matter how hard I try, I can't escape the feeling that I've got $110 worth of wasted space on my HDD and that I do actually feel that I've been ripped off. Now I know this is only temporary, but its sad to think of this sim in this way ... but here we are.

I've actually bought RoF last week and I'm flying that online with some mates and we're getting much more enjoyment out of that at the moment. I'm just praying that IIlya delivers on the items he mentioned in the 6th August update thread, because right now, I'll be thinking twice before buying another game.