What disappoints me is the lack of communication on the 'Official' forum :(

[Skarphol]

Guys, guys, you are really amazing me!

Firstly that you, Feuerfalke, really see a point in taking the time to answer the same questions over and over again. I have a tendency to go nuts when my children ask the same question wich I have allready answered before several times. And you must have noticed that most questions are not directed to you, and that a lot of people are not very satisfied by your answers anyway.

Secondly, that all of you other guys get so upset by Feuerfalkes answers. We all know pretty much what his opinion is in these matters anyway, so why just not ignore his answers if they are so offensive?

I think we all are quite disappointed whith this forum, most of us remember so well the happy times around 2002 when we had frequent updates and news, but we are in no position to demand anything!

You guys need to calm down a bit. It's summer in the northern hemisphere! Go out and have som fun! Look at the chicks! They are wearing skirts!!

Skarphol

[Feuerfalke]

Well, Skarphol, that's what I'm saying. This is not because people want updates. We all know that there will be updates. The thing is just that some people just can't take waiting for it and use these media to vent. It's nothing more than that.

I also agree that we had a different time when the original IL2 was released. Things were quite different for a lot of reasons. Oleg and UBI had little to lose, as they didn't estimate the impact of this sim, nobody started preemptive complains about content and problems with the game and the only people that were active on the forums were fans, who hoped for a great simulation.

Over time more and more people got p*ssed. Their favorite plane got porked, Cal50s don't kill Tigers, FW190s are crippled because the refraction of the glass is not modeled, the sounds sux so bad you can barely take it, it has not 6DOF, etc. It's first really bad climax was reached with PacificFighters, when people started to threaten Oleg personally with lawyers and stuff and while MG natural reaction to that was to keep silence more and more, that just got more people upset.
Now we are in a situation that UBISOFT, MG and 1C remain silent about this project, for various reasons stated a dozen times before and we are reaching a new sad climax.

My mission is not to lecture people, like most people claim. But this ravage against MG is the worst thing this community could do and the most effective way to cease support from either side, may it be UBISOFT, 1C, MG or Oleg himself. Just look at the responses to the latest updates? They're even flaming MG because the only show models.


No, Sir, this has gone far beyond the interest in this sim or in news about BoB. This is a flamewar against a publisher and a developer. It's a bad thing to do and it's a bad way things are turning, on the short term and on the long term for this whole upcoming brand.
You guys keep talking about bad advertisement for this simulation from MG and UBISOFT, but it is THIS COMMUNITY who is making the only bad advertisement there is, the worst propaganda for this sim ever and you're doing exactly the opposite of what you'd like to see or what you claim to do. In the meanwhile, I was even asked by gamemagazines what is going on in this community and why they are constantly flaming the developers. Guys, don't you realize your complains are not in private, but clearly visible for everybody inside and out?
Go ahead and claim to have the right to do so, if you really need to. You will all have to take the consequences sooner or later. If you don't see that, I'm just sorry for you and those who really love to see a long fortunate life of this sim.