Friday, May 25, 2012. Report 3

[Highwayman-Ed]

I'm just grateful that the devs who are working on improving the product rather than walking away with the cash are working on the product at all.

I've seen so many half baked products released because the publisher wants their return in investment now and not tomorrow, and the devs are dragged on to the next product with no say in the matter.

Thank you for the update, even if there is no news. I thank you for your efforts, even if there isn't another patch yet, and I thank you for supporting us even though I'm sure that here is pressure to move on to the next title.

[priller26]

Wish I could say thanks but my patience is done. Nothing new here, just the same old we are fixing it...and will get back to you in a while. This game is shelved until next year. All these years of development, and this. I don't know what system they were testing this thing on, but I don't think the game was even half finished when released. Truly a massive cluster.......and a waste of my money.
You all that are diehard and keep thinking the genie will come out of the bottle if they rub it long and hard enough..well...good luck with that!

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by priller26

You all that are diehard and keep thinking the genie will come out of the bottle if they rub it long and hard enough..well...good luck with that!

Wrong. If it happens to fail ultimately I`ll move on and forget about it. Like any adult should do over a 50$ video game.

[SQB]

Carguy, I know I'm not a mod but you're probably going to receive an infraction for posting like that, try and post all your comments in one post, using the quote button at the top of the text box.

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by SQB

Carguy, I know I'm not a mod but you're probably going to receive an infraction for posting like that, try and post all your comments in one post, using the quote button at the top of the text box.

That's a good idea, and I've done it, but it's not as easy as it could be. When you are composing a reply, the other posts are visible, but the quote buttons on them disappear, if you want to quote them you have to open another tab or window, quote them in that, then copy that quote across to the original window.

[chris455]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt
"The average flight sim fan has his head so far buried inside his heap of performance charts that has lost the ability to dream, has forgotten the time when he was building plastic model airplanes with his father, or dreaming about having a way to get in a pilot's shoes once a day, holding a P38 model on one hand and a Fw190 model on the other and playing mock dogfights in the living room while making funny sounds with his voice to simulate engine and gunfire sounds and thinking to himself..."how i wish i could hook some electronic game to my TV and be able to step into that cockpit in some way".

I relate too.

When I was a kid, WWII veterans were everywhere.If you wanted to experience anything close to what they had done, you either talked to them, read the history books or watched the movie, "The Flying Tigers" with John Wayne.

I began flight simming with the original Microsft Flight Simulator way back in the 80s. It was mesmerizing. Then came "Aces of the Pacific", "1942 Pacific Air War", "Janes WWII Fighters", "Falcon 3.0", etc. IL2 was the Grail.

If anyone had given me a magically time-teleported copy of COD even 5 years ago, I would have giggled like a kid. I bought a brand new rig to play COD, and it wasn't cheap. It plays fine on my machine and always has. I only wished initially for a more aggressive AI but that has been addressed. There is so much about this game that actually works.I wish the people who are dissappointed will ultimately find a way to enjoy it, but for a few, I think the problem will never be patched away because the problem isn't in the code. It's either hardware, or hard headedness, or both.

I will buy every sequel these folks make becuase I want them to stay in business. As much as I like COD, I don't want to be playing COD 15 years from now (provided I'm still around). I want to have version 4.2 of "IL2-Air War In North Africa" or some other exciting theater. In the meantime, I'm going to be grateful (yes, grateful) that I can fully enjoy Cliffs of Dover.

Devs, rock on- you have the overwhelming majority of the community that has faith you will "make it right"- like you always have.

Peace

[335th_GRAthos]

Originally Posted by chris455

I will buy every sequel these folks make becuase I want them to stay in business. As much as I like COD, I don't want to be playing COD 15 years from now (provided I'm still around). I want to have version 4.2 of "IL2-Air War In North Africa" or some other exciting theater. In the meantime, I'm going to be grateful (yes, grateful) that I can fully enjoy Cliffs of Dover.

Devs, rock on- you have the overwhelming majority of the community that has faith you will "make it right"- like you always have.

+1

Originally Posted by GOZR

........

GOZR!
Long time, no seeing! How long has it been? 5-6 years???!!!

Originally Posted by Buchon

according to a Steam survey the XP users is about a 14.90% :
Windows 7 64 bit have a 53.86% and Windows 7 32 bit a 14.65%.
That sum a 68.51% for Win7 and DX10/11 while DX9 have a 14.90%

Thanks for these statistics, excellent find!

Originally Posted by BlackSix

Win XP has bad security and it stay very popular for PC gamers unfortunately.

Not really, Win7 has much weaker installation-security than WinXP.


~S~

[Force10]

Originally Posted by Highwayman-Ed

I'm just grateful that the devs who are working on improving the product rather than walking away with the cash are working on the product at all.

I would venture a guess that the profit margin was slim at best for COD. If they walk away now, it would probably translate into a sizeable loss. I don't think they can walk away yet, they need to release BOM to get some money back, so they have to fix COD first to get some level of trust back from the customers so they will purchase BOM.