Just FYI, SOW is not dead

[334th_Gazoo0]

Originally Posted by mondo

Maybe, although producing a game these days is an expensive and time consuming process, especially since they are building there own game engine and building an engine that removes all the faults Il2 had with adding new content.

IMHO the be all and end all of this is the community is extremely demanding, to satisfy that demand Maddox and Co. have a hell of allot of work to do, to assume it won't take them less and 3 or 4 years to complete, from proof of concept to gold master is little naive.

Further to your point Mondo. I believe with the hardware changes which are ongoing, throughout the development cycle, running changes to the engine and or code itself are probably happening, resulting in a fair bit of rework.
This could result in further delays

[Former_Older]

Originally Posted by crazyivan1970

Greetings folks,
I see a lot of rumors going around about SOW being dead, discontinued, taking out of webstores, etc...not only on this forum, others as well...

It is NOT dead, and one of the reason Oleg is not around is THE indication of that. They are extremely busy with development, working crazy hours, etc. Oleg mentioned to me that he did not forget about you people and that IF he has time, he will organize some kind of update in the nearest future.

The end

Nice effort but a waste of time Ivan. You know the score all too well. The people who want to believe SoW is dead and won't ever happen, and wouldn't ever have happened, they deceived us, blah blah blah, will never read your post and suddenly say "Oh, well I see, I was wrong, it seems. I'll be more objective in the future and I'll stop believing rumors"

On the other hand, the reasonable folks already know all this. And stuck in the middle are those that just play the realistic game: if it happens, it happens.

When I read a bunch of people posting "SoW is dead" on forums, here there everywhere, I take it for what it's worth: a lot of talk from people who know nothing and like to guess and stir up needless debate over a thing they haven't a clue about

[crazyivan1970]

@Jughead - Publisher is 1C.

@Former_Older: I do know that too well, but still had to say something. There are new people onboard and they should know things the way they are, not based on someones guesses, you know...

[HenFre]

Thank you for the situation update crazyivan. Was beginning to wonder what was going on over there in Moscow

[ElAurens]

Thanks Ivan!!!

[proton45]

the sad thing is that this message actually dose makes me feel better...

[Vigilant]

Cheers Crazy Ivan I don't mind being brought back down to earth sometimes...

[SpudGun]

Thank you Crazyivan1970 for the update, I have met Oleg on a couple of occasions once when he was demonstrating SOW in its infancy, it looks great and will be well worth the wait The wait is probably due to ongoing new technical devepments, which take time to incorporate into the sim. Remember this is not an add on, and has a new graphics engine to boot, to take us to the next level of widescreen eye candy, everyone is waiting for!, the wait will be well worth it

James UK

[apparition]

Originally Posted by crazyivan1970

Greetings folks,
I see a lot of rumors going around about SOW being dead, discontinued, taking out of webstores, etc...not only on this forum, others as well...

It is NOT dead, and one of the reason Oleg is not around is THE indication of that. They are extremely busy with development, working crazy hours, etc. Oleg mentioned to me that he did not forget about you people and that IF he has time, he will organize some kind of update in the nearest future.

The end

sorry ivan but nobody is that busy they cant take a few mins to make a quick post every couple weeks.

[crazyivan1970]

Originally Posted by apparition

sorry ivan but nobody is that busy they cant take a few mins to make a quick post every couple weeks.

As i said... there is a big difference between publishers and developers...