It's trend I suspect Ubisoft is trying to bomb a release on purpose;
To get out of PC gaming all together. Or kill PC gaming, because of
The monies they lost to piracy. Ubisoft has been making alot of bonehead
Decisions as of late.

I am a fan of the cock-up before conspiracy theory. Or to put it another way, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". The world is full of conspiracy theories that just don't make sense, yours is one of them

You need to understand that Ubisoft and 1C both are both profit driven organisations. Why would they deliberately sabotage their own profit potential? It would be far simpler to just not get involved in the first place.

It's trend I suspect Ubisoft is trying to bomb a release on purpose;
To get out of PC gaming all together. Or kill PC gaming,

Ah, the old "point a finger at me and you're pointing 3 at yourself" deal?

its good to see SimHQ reviewers being a bit more critical again, and not just talking up anything that has a commercial benefit or gain (which never had been the case in SimHQ's early years, but since their mishandling of the RoF storm of negative feedback it seemed to have become the new "management style")

regarding the CoD recent points, most are well balanced and (regretfully) accurate. it does overlook 2 important points however:

1) in recent months it has become clear that Oleg for the last few years has not been involved in hands-on managing the project himself anymore, and had handed most of the project management to luthier who clearly wasnt up to the task (/me puts on flame proof suit in anticipation of luthiers usual tirade of insults directed at anybody who raises something negative about him/il2). its maybe not "nice" to put it that bluntly, but what else can be said about it ? luthier might have many good qualities in some of the other work he did in/for il2, and might be a close personal friend of oleg, but in managing a project like this he was clearly wayout of his depth. if oleg had stayed hands on and managed it himself on an ongoing basis this bungled disastrous release NEVER would have happened.

some blame does have to be directed at oleg himself however, and mostly in the procrastination department. it was initially a good decision to not just release CoD as an advance version of the il2 game engine, but from that decision point onwards many years of procrastination went by with the new gfx engine. their modular game design is innovative and has its good sides, but if the gfx engine itself is seriously flawed the whole project falls over.

2) aside from those glaring issues (which not many here seem to articulate), ultimately the blame lies with ubi for forcing a fixed release date on a project they must have understood was unfinished and buggy (or information might have been deliberately been withheld from them by luthier/oleg so they didnt know exactly how bad things were). oleg himself referred to his frustration with ubi's uncompromising forced release date in some of the youtube discussions shortly after the russian release, and voiced his frustration and disgust on ubi's stance. sadly there is further blame for luthier in this again, because as the project manager he would (or should) have know in what terrible state the end product was when ubi put its foot down on a release date (with the risk of ubi cutting off the money flow, and issues of contractual obligations)

the main issue they need to fix IMMEDIATELY in order for some hope of salvation of its long term survival:
- a major gfx engine overhaul/replacement
- fully working multi core cpu use
- online multiplayer fix
- a working truely dynamic campaign engine
- flightmodel bug fixing and plane performance tuning

personally the only hope i see is for oleg to come back and manage this project himself, there really isnt another solution