I just read the interview with ROF developers, concerning the past present and future of this sim.
An interesting comment was that the new Channel map was just "perfect for Spitfires and Messerschmidts."
All right, he did add, "I can dream, can't I?" But still, why dream? They're the people making the sim. They can do anything they want. DCS added a P-51 to a jet sim. Just cause they wanted to. But don't stop at Spits and '109's. How about Thunderbolts? Razorback Jugs and B-17's, the early days of the 8TH Air Force.
I'm even fooling myself into believing that its the whole reason for the map. You can't develope a WW1 sim , forever. Although you can certainly do it for a long time. When they've had enough, the Channel map is perfect for continuing on into other areas. I'm just imaging a Thunderbolt done with the same care and loving detail as the ROF airplanes have been given.
Just thinking out loud. Like the man said. "I can dream, can't I?"

Some where a while back, I read that was the direction the game was going. The last 2 years of WWI, WWII, and then the one I dream about Korea. Ah Dreams.

I hope the WW1 possibilities remain profitable for a while. However, I do look forward to the day they jump in the WW2 arena of flight sims.

No, it's not going in that direction, unless they have had a complete rethink in the last 6 months..
Jason stated at one stage that he wouldn't discount a WWII sim but they were still fully committed to WWI.

I have no problem with 777 maintaining their focus on WWI but the potential in their game engine added to the Channel map they are working on does make you think. If 777 released a WWII sim based on the Digital Nature engine who wouldn't buy it ?

Cliffs of dover has a better engine in many ways, especially for huge flights and lots of ground objects. 777 would have to redesign their engine to allow for much more AI in the game than is currently handled in ROF.

For example, in Cliffs of dover, 20 BF109's taking off to defend 15 ships in the sea against another 20 spitfires, something you will likely never see in ROF. Flights in ROF consist of maybe five planes total with maybe 15 planes in total on each mission along with maybe a few trains and other things, then when you get near their spawn point and they spawn in the game stutters, then your framerate drops significantly the more items they spawn in.

Cliffs may be very buggy but give it credit where credit is due, playing the desastersoft campaign where they've got dozens of static objects on airfields, vehicles driving around as well as 40+ planes and a bunch of ground objects, it's a great sight to see and it runs well for me even in cases like this.

In the hypothetical world where a. 777 built a WW2 sim and b. 1C/MG got CoD to work properly I would support them both. CoD is too buggy for most people and RoF works. I don't play what could or might work.

Didn't Jason once mention a 'RoF II'?
In the end, it all comes down to money, or a lack of it.

Did somebody say "Korea"?

Oh yeah, I know its not happening any time, soon. There's still a lot of life left in ROF. Plenty more airplanes to build. I'm talking a ways down the road a bit. Just a few miles. Stop at the Zeppelin and make a right into World War Two.
And Korea. Forget it. I've given up. Sounds like something that would be a major hit, and nobody wants to do it. Damn, I want to fly an F-86!