In the end, customers vote with their money by purchasing or not purchasing a product. For all we know Wings of Prey may have been a financial success. In the long run Loft may be right from a business standpoint. Only time will tell...

Thank god we've still got IL-2 1946 and IL-2 Cliffs of Dover!

I should put a face palm meme up right here.

So does this mean they've simplified the flight model and damage mode? Disabled complex engine management?

I see all this griping and moaning but it's still not clear exactly how it's been watered down. So far it looks like people are p*ss*d about about the principle of trying to attract mainstream gamers...

Anyway, can't wait to try it for myself!

It seems to me that they are in a breach of contract with all the hardcore early birds that purchased a license to fund the development of a game, which was not developed as per description entering that contractual relationship, which today has generated a civil wrong.

Wings of Prey was made into War Thunder was it not? Well the models, FM's etc, right?

Anyway, thank goodness there are other options. We shall wait and see if BoS becomes anything more than it is now.

Tell me your joking, Gunny!

Many flight simmers apparently have this elitist attitude that leads them to despise all "gamey" features, such as unlocks. Maybe it's because we are all grown-up men (some of us, like me, definitely old men ) and can't really picture ourselves playing a "game" without a vague feeling of shame. So we pretend to enjoy "simulations" as if the name implied something radically different from a "game", and more in tune with our social standing.

Then some developers from Russia come around and provide a dream of simulation, richly detailed, mouth watering good, as realistic as they come, but they feel compelled to present it as a game, in order to draw in some more customers beyond the usual group of grumpy old geezers with their dusty creaky joysticks .

And the sky falls. The bubble is burst.

There is no more pretending: one can "man-up" and admit to himself that no matter our age or our place in the world we are all just little kids at heart, who like to fly and shoot down airplanes, and say to hell with it, and enjoy oneself with all the good stuff this GAME is able to provide, OR...

..ONE GETS INCREDIBLY MAD with the people who dared burst his bubble, as well as with those who unexplicably don't feel ashamed by the idea of enjoying a GAME.

So if you are gifted with self-irony and a healthy sense of humor you will most likely enjoy BOS. But if you are not, boy, you'd better stay the heck away from it!

It seems to me that they are in a breach of contract with all the hardcore early birds that purchased a license to fund the development of a game, which was not developed as per description entering that contractual relationship, which today has generated a civil wrong.

Any lawyer (or group of lawyers) specialized in class action lawsuits would certainly take a look at those circumstances to see if there is ground for action or create a precedent.