Oleg's Russian Interview Translated

[P_Zangusu]

Well, I'm not really at ease but I think it's only natural. Having spent countless years in the MSFS community and 5 or so years in the Il-2 world I'm just voicing the concern that BoB add-on system has all the right parameters to venture onto the road called "making money like MSFS". Ofcourse I've read about the OM approved servers and stuff, but potentially we could end-up with "pure BoB" with fewer content we have right now for Il-2 for more or less the same price or going into the extreme where Oleg just approves add-ons from 3rd party with sky high prices just to make one extra buck...

Again, nothing wrong with making money and OM deserves that for all the hard work, but! But everything is wrong with making money like the developers around the MSFS franchise do. I'll give you an example: would you buy an add-on of a fully functional B-29 for Il-2 (if it would exist) for merely 80 dollars? Bright people would answer "no" just for the sake of it, but if you look deep down into your heart, lots of people would. The other lot which wouldn't buy this add-on could probably not fly on the OM pre-approved servers as the add-on is in the "official" OM line. How's that for a prospect? OM is making his well-deserved money and the users are stuck somewhere in the middle because it's pre-approved, but not really wanted by everyone other than the B-29 fanatics...

[Thunderbolt56]

Originally Posted by P_Zangusu

...Of course I've read about the OM approved servers and stuff, but potentially we could end-up with "pure BoB" with fewer content we have right now for Il-2 for more or less the same price or going into the extreme where Oleg just approves add-ons from 3rd party with sky high prices just to make one extra buck...
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That's not really just a possibility, but rather a likelihood. There's no way BoB can have anywhere close to IL2 (and it's already been said by Oleg, Luthier and others) that the initial release will only have 6 (I think that's correct) flyables and one main map. Comparatively, that's less than 1/10th of the content we already have in the IL2 series.

Expecting anything more than that is simply wishful thinking. As long as the sim engine, FM's, DM's and effects are all they've been reported to be, I'll be quite satisfied. And will continue to fly IL2 for the stuff I can't get there.