Seeing the posts here I can tell that DCS's strategy is working. Pretty soon it will be standard for us to pay for patches that only include bug fixes. Were not there yet, but you can tell the future will be them citing "finite" resources and "unexpected" length of time to fix bugs and a lot of folks here will hand over their money with that glazed look in their eye's and ridicule those that oppose it.
You are absolutely correct, it happened with the Xbox 360 DLC market, and its happening to the Sim market because frankly DCS has the market cornered, who else has a Simulator of this scale and realism? JANES is long since deceased, and BIS is more concerned with the big government bucks of focusing on ground warfare......
BS2 is a patch......I don't care how people sing it, praise it, defend it, in any other market and in any other title, the changes would be considered a patch....
I've been playing computer games since I was about 11 years old, that was back in oh god, 1995 , back then when a company released a title, they stood by it, they supported the community, and when they pushed a new title, the community stood by the developer because they took care of them........
You CANNOT tell me or justify to me that ED did the same with the DCS BS series, TWO patches is "justifiable support"
How are all these "additions & fixes" in BS 2 not things that should have been fixed in BS 1?
When I bought BS 1 it was because they were waving the idea of them tieing in more aircraft to my simulator so that my choice of craft would eventually grow and offer a wider variety. Instead the dropped my product, tied it in to a soon to be negated product (LO:FC2 with FC3) and pulled out a few fixes and a new campaign and called it a sequel....
I am utterly disgusted with ED right now. When I first saw their sales pitch I thought it was a new Sim Era dawning to compare to the prime years of JANES Combat Simulations.....
[admin edit] I don't regard as much better than a Ponzie scam on Wallstreet.
And Einstein, your whole review sounded like you were given a free upgrade to say it was a justified act, throughout all of your review I couldn't find a single thing in there that shouldn't have been a pay-free patch for Black Shark, a new campaign is not worth $29-49 , and the FIXES (as you used the word yourself multiple times) should have been just that....
The gaming & simulation industry really are turning into a sad thing to behold, I guess my wife is right, I need to spend less time on this crap.
Admin Edit - You're welcome to your opinion but don't make claims like that