The Crystal Ball

[Bewolf]

[QUOTE=6BL Bird-Dog;359371]

Originally Posted by luthier

Hi everyone,

The patch has gone up to steam. It should autoupdate your game version in a few hours once it propagates down to the world. As long as autoupdate is enabled in your steam (Library – Cliffs of Dover – RMB – Properties – Updates – Always keep this game up to date) you do not to take any further actions.

Patch notes can be found below.

And here’s where we are in terms of plans. We obviously remain hard at work on the series. We will continue to improve the game up until the eventual release of its sequel.
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I do hope the Dev team will continue to fix all the present faults within the game and at least add some allied defensive shipping if not making more of the aircraft flyable before the release of the sequel.
If this is not the case I for one Will Boycott any further releases and not purchase them until Cliffs of Dover has been fully fixed.

Please boycott. That at least will keep you away from the forum. If it is not clear to you by now that the Maddox Games folks stick to their product, it never will, regular forum updates or not.

[6BL Bird-Dog]

I have supported the il2 series since the first release and am well aware that when Oleg Maddox was in control of the development team patches and improvements were continualy released until work was started on the Storm of War .
At that time the final iL2 series ending with 1946 was fully functional in all its features worked because of continued communication with the cummunity,much of it originaly on the Ubi Forums,and the subsequent patches released as a result.
Luthier in his post said:
`We will continue to improve the game up until the eventual release of its sequel.`
What do you not understand about this statement ?
I would be more than happy if his next update stated this was just an error in translation .
To assume that support will continue when we all assumed Cliffs of Dover release would be feature fully operational apart from a few bugs would be pretty nieve to say the least.

[albx]

[QUOTE=Bewolf;359458]

Originally Posted by 6BL Bird-Dog

Please boycott. That at least will keep you away from the forum. If it is not clear to you by now that the Maddox Games folks stick to their product, it never will, regular forum updates or not.

why he should stay away from the forum? does him bother you? are you the owner of this forum and you decide who should stay or should leave?

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by albx

why he should stay away from the forum? does him bother you? are you the owner of this forum and you decide who should stay or should leave?

Yes, why should that be. Think about the history of this game and IL2 and the constant fixes and upgrades, read his post and come up with an answer to your questions yourself.

[bongodriver]

does him bother you?

well......yes, non constructive whining bothers most of us.

why he should stay away from the forum?

see above

are you the owner of this forum and you decide who should stay or should leave?

you know all those times people say if you don't like someones posts the just ignore or don't get involved etc? well it's like that....if you don't like ClOD or 1C or MG etc then just stay away and don't get involved.....non?

[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by Bewolf

Please boycott. That at least will keep you away from the forum. If it is not clear to you by now that the Maddox Games folks stick to their product, it never will, regular forum updates or not.

True words

Ignore list updated

[addman]

As stated by Luthier, CloD will be supported UNTIL the release of the new game so let's hope it's not released any time soon. Wow, never thought I'd say that about an upcoming MG installment.

[albx]

Originally Posted by addman

As stated by Luthier, CloD will be supported UNTIL the release of the new game so let's hope it's not released any time soon. Wow, never thought I'd say that about an upcoming MG installment.

seems we bought a deading game... fine...

[addman]

Originally Posted by albx

seems we bought a deading game... fine...

You have to take it in to perspective, some games are released even more broken and doesn't receive any patches or support. If this was the last patch I'd still be happy considering the hours of enjoyment that I've gotten out of it even though many hours have gone to tweaking the thing.

There's a feeling still of that this game could've been much much better that I guess will never really go away.

[Kupsised]

Originally Posted by addman

As stated by Luthier, CloD will be supported UNTIL the release of the new game so let's hope it's not released any time soon. Wow, never thought I'd say that about an upcoming MG installment.

Or it just means that the new game will just be an expansion (as well as a standalone), as with all previous Il2 sequels, and thus it and any patches or improvements made for it will also improve CloD. I don't mean to be harsh to anyone at all, but I think everyone is seriously overthinking what Luthier said. He probably said what he did so that everyone could see that they're still thinking about the future of the series since there's no reason for him to say 'by the way, soon we're not going to care about this game' as that would seriously harm sales. Even if that were the case if he has any business sense, which I'm almost certain he does else he wouldn't be managing the project, there's no reason for him to say it so he wouldn't as long as he wants to make money.

EDIT: Sven pretty much beat me to it