Now about these dromedaries...Would they be the one hump variety or the two hump variety?

The community voted and decided on one hump. Adding the second hump would take to much time, thats desperately needed to fix the FM.

Salute FearlessFrog...I will continue to believe, that we all want the best outcome...Thanks

I don't think this was a company strategy but Oleg's personal style. There was no "conscious thought" behind it, it was more like an instinctual thing since Oleg put too much "blood & sweat" into it. PR-wise Maddox Games was always not particularly creative - we never got more than screenshots and more or less cryptic statements, often less than substantial ones at that. They were never comparable to what Jason does at ROF (which I find most informative and upfront).

Ahh yes...robtek swoops in now and then with one of his "hit and run" posts that makes everyone feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It's a shame that it saddens you that opinions are allowed to be discussed, both positive and negative. Not everyone bought COD in the hopes that they would be able to drive a tank. It's kinda silly to discuss it in depth when the flight sim aspect of the game isn't up to snuff yet.

This is not the usual debate that has been done to death, this is a new issue about buying a flight sim and having it being turned into something else. It's going to be discussed, get over it...IMO

Luthier definitely has a more confrontational style than Oleg had. I personally don't think thats a bad thing, although I preferred Oleg's style.

Jason bought the ROF franchise from the Russian developers and can communicate in English much better than the COD developers. Usually developments on a shoe string budget don't get into advertising, and advertising such an incomplete product would probably not be the best strategy at the moment. The original Il-2 didn't advertise either, but eventually cornered the WW2 combat flight sim market, and most of the market bought COD on reputation alone.

I can definitely see the new series start a serious advertising campaign in five to ten years, when they have developed a combined forces sim that they could market to a much larger audience, that might make the advertising costs worth while.

OMG I'm in spasms LMFAO I cant breathe.. frog you kill me.

I think that'll be way too late, Luthier isn't so far ahead of others as he think.
Maybe ED applied the ground war on a more reasonable level? http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=81589

While I do see use for First-person-AAA, I'm not so sure about first-person-tanks.

Turned into something else? New issue? No wonder people are soo upset. No one even researched the title they bought in the 1st place. The ground war stuff has been in the works for years. Why do some of you people think the sim is magically changing from what the initial scope was? I really wish some people would take the time and at least research the sim before pounding their chest saying it's not what they paid for. If you didn't want drivable vehicles perhaps you should have complained about them 2 years ago, or even better, maybe you could've complained about it when you saw in the controls section was an area dedicated to just for vehicles. I mean, here's your sign lol.

All these forums are straight up comedy gold. Thanks to all of those that add to them.

That is a modern warfare combined forces sim which isn't the market that the COD developer is interested in, or that most WW2 simmers are interested in. Time will tell if a combined forces sim would work on the new IL-2 engine, the maps and terrain will be decent and large, but it depends on the ability of the game engine to provide the features that would attract WW2 tankers.