For all the WW1 fans
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Do not forget to use your extra discount you will recieve from 777, when doing the FC preorder and did buy RoF ad-ons.

Purchased. WW1 in VR is my dream of a game. Forget combat, just to fly around is enough. Stand to look above your wing or stretch your head in any direction is surreal. I will not have time to play or tweak WOFF.

I suspect you will... there is not a great deal you can do with it at the moment...

I sincerely hope it will be a good start to fleshing out the sim they started but...in my opinion...never really finished. Certainly it will have an excellent engine to be built upon so the potential is there and it's nice to see development in WWI flight simulators continuing.

I agree with your sentiment but don't expect to use any of my WOTR savings on Flying Circus. Up until 2014 I was a ROF diehard, but then I found that WOFF was the immersive experience I'd been searching for and never went back. The excellent graphic improvements since WOFF UE and the wonderful community here have made the divorce from ROF official, and no amount of eye candy can entice he back.

Pay £54 for 10 planes you already bought previously, placed into a game engine you already bought previously....... Yeah, no thanks.

Only 54,- , if counting the complete investments from OFF3 to WoFFue and the complete RoF store incl the separate Sikorsky game. Yep, I know I'm a big fool when it becomes to WW1, please do not tell my wife

Back to FC; Interestings aspect is you will recieve the Spad and the Dr1 after the pre-order, only not the right terrain. Included is my first kill a Ju52

I did play the Spad FC plane in the Moscou map and yep nothing can beat flying WoFF immerse campaign. Only I think I have to post this for all the WW1 flysim fans.

+1

It really doesn't sound very attractive a deal, does it? But it raises an interesting question; one I've wondered about for some time: How long, once FC is out, does anyone suppose RoF will continue to actually work? Not for nothing, but it occurred to me they could pull a Microsoft, and basically force people to upgrade by just shutting RoF down. Of course, many might bail altogether, but I doubt they'd care.

Just wondering.

My new Spad looks pretty good...

Really could not care less if they pull the plug on RoF. Have not had it installed since the beginnning of 2015. And I had pretty much everything they had released, weapon packs field mods etc.

And now they want £54 quid out of the gate, but it will give me even less content?

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I can appreciate your original sentiment, but I think a little less provocative wording would have been better - text deleted.

Right. I'm sure many will agree with your perspective.

I guess my question, though, was more about what people thought the likelihood was that they'd kill RoF just to make sure (if you were actually interested in a WWI product from them) you had to move to FC (and yes, thereby incur the inherent costs associated).

Every product stops getting developed at some point, of course, and while it can be upsetting, people generally accept that as a fact of life (mostly). However, pulling the plug on the server so that your old product no longer works at all simply to force your previous customers to spend more money on your new product only to give them way less content than they had with your old sim would seem like a surefire way to lose all your previous customers than actually convert them. That said, they will do what they will do and it's all just speculation on our end.

Ok, let's try this a different way...would you, or would you not, be surprised if that were to happen?

BTW I should say that, for myself, I don't think I'd be surprised - your points notwithstanding. Of course, there'd be the obligatory language about "spiritual successors" and what have you, and of course, mention that every product stops getting developed...

I would be surprised if it happens anytime soon. Again, ceasing to allow customers to use your old product before you have a real product to replace it with just doesn't make much sense to me. There's a difference between a product that stops being developed (for RoF that was already years ago) and a product that stops being able to be used because the servers are shut down.

Perhaps I wasn't clear...but I didn't actually say it would be "before" FC. After all, FC is already available, at least as 'early access'. So, to me, it looks more like a matter of time, really. The question of whether FC is a "real" replacement product, I imagine, won't be up for debate.

And it wouldn't surprise me.

Edit: In retrospect, maybe I should have just asked what people thought would be the "period of overlap" between the intro of FC and the end of RoF. Myself, I wouldnt be surprised if its less than a year - maybe 6 months.

For every WW1 flysim fan it is great that there is something new going on, in this very small WW1 flysim world. Admit we all were thinking it was stopped. A big thanks for all the WW1 flysim developers like OBD and 777 to keep that part of flying, alive.

Think WW1 gamers that use to play RoF/WoFF, mostly do not care about servers and if wanting to play on mp, they will notice: the servers are empty. So yep if the mp servers do shut down and that will eventually happen, just like happen to OFF3 mp, it will be a game without mp and does have impact on only a few mp players. Also I think it is not that difficult to make RoF online career mode pure offline, [who cares about the published score listings its showing] so we can play RoF without the internet. So 1c can pull out the plug but the game still can be played, problem fixed.

note: Right now I keep a close watch to the next gen. Pimax/StarVR/S.Odyssey VR sets. Only higher VR resolution means I have to exchange my i7-7700k 4core to an future i7-9700k 6/8core and a GTX1180ti oeps do not tell this to my wife

What's clear to me is that even when FC does officially ship, it's only step forward will be in graphics and performance due to the DX11 and Digital Warfare engine. Everything else, literally, will be less than the old RoF sim. Fewer planes, fewer maps, no single player. Before or after it ships doesn't much matter.

in two years maybe they will have single player just like when ROF started out.

Or wait for the the first big sail...thats what I'd do