Here you have an incredible flight sim, yet when WOP has 8 viewers and Storm of War, which isn't even out, has 38 viewers, you know something has gone wrong with this operation.

I'm not sure that means that anyone is screwing up. I mean, IL2 has been out for years and had time to develop a strong following. Also, it's more fun to speculate than to talk about a game you actually have. Plus you have more time to post in a forum and read about it when you're not playing it.

yeah - inconclusive...despite the fact that they did do a couple of things wrong...

they got some things right

they made a beautifully smooth flight sim with breathtaking environs

Im starting to wonder if we now know the reason its so beautifully smooth.. ie.. it doesnt actually have to do much else, and as they have said, they cant add anything to this and will have to release a sequel developed the ground up to do so.. Be interesting to see if they can keep the engine so optimized when they add everything that should be in a sim..

I understand what you're saying, Ighten, but at least if you're right and the engine in the sequel will be more demanding because of the extra modelling, at least it will be a game with a wonderful graphics system, and I'd still wager it will need less powerful hardware than RoF or SoW.

If not having much else to do ensures smooth playability then you'd think RoF would run like a dream. It doesn't have to do much else either yet looks like crap compared to WoP and runs worse. Not only is it graphically inferior, its landscape resembles neither France nor Belgium and lags far behind WoP's superior geographic representations.

I said it a thousand times.. If this sim had first and foremost a decent powerful but easy to use mission builder and customizations in the form of skins.. those two things alone would give this sim legs. As it is now.. while it is a nice piece of kit and certainly much better than many give it credit for.. even with it's faults, it is still fighting an uphill fight against a 10 year old sim that is soon to be incarnated in it's next generation.

Bearcat99,

Agreed.

J. P. Kelly

With SoW that's all you can do--read about it. LOL
WoP you can actually play instead of searching a forum for a release date. 38 frustrated people feeding on speculation.

You people do realize that you can buy more than one right? If you really want to support developers putting out what we want, then you shouldn't hold out for just one sim.

...and if you want one that's good for 10 years of use through modding so you don't have to buy another one, then you're killing the market. No wonder these things rarely come out, and when they do they're with 10 year old tech, other than WoP.

Only until you hit the retarded time limit...