If you have to buy BoM to get a fixed version of CoD, it is a scam pure and simple. In most countries it would be called fraud.

Well, the ATAG guys seem to have opened a can of worms, and I'm quite interested in how this will develop. They've produced a utility that circumvents/over-rides the ability to make tracks with outside views on within full switch servers. While quite good for movie makers, not so good for the integrity of the CoD code. This seems to show it is possible to get around the VAC system for anti-cheating (which may or may not have ever worked). Also, this might not be a concern now, but definitely opens the door to other FM/DM hacks implemented without general knowledge.

I am not accusing the ATAG guys of cheating, for all of our disagreements, I've talked to Bliss enough to know that he's an upstanding guy. But by letting everyone know they've successfully broken the VAC barrier, they've announced to everyone that VAC doesn't work.

I doubt that the development will withhold an exclusive patch for COD that fixes the game engine. They have to understand the goodwill that will be lost by such an action, and also must realize that most of us would buy any Sequel if the game engine is working, just as we did thru the original IL-2 series. Its highly doubtful you will see BOM released anyway unless the game engine is fixed, if they do without the fix, it will be just a cash grab as they shut down the development. Even then sales will be relatively low outside of Russia, as most of us will wait to see if the game engine was fixed before buying.

I hope you are right, but there are many saying that you will need to buy BoM to integrate the two in order to get the fixes for CoD. Hope they are wrong, because that would be a total scam that I and many others will have no part in.