40.192 players online, 1022 battles in War Thunder ATM.

Yes, Air Quakes painted in WWII skins isn't dead. WWII CFS is.

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You are so full of yourself. The only active Campaign going on is the remove any criticism, hide, delete, lock or ban Campaign going on in the BOS Official Forum and the Steam BOS Forum. You keep trying to build BOS up as a Great Flight SIm that is only going to get better and better and better, when you don't know that and that is basically false advertising, especially based on the Dev teams acknowledgement of not addressing the Communities main concerns. Community requests for Sp content,a real Campaign, Historical Career, Historical Medals, a pilot character, squad mates and tracking of yours and the Squads achievements and losses, to name a few, and Graphics adjustments, some semblance of a war going on for Stalingrad on the ground in the Volga and in the air, more than 5 ground units plus 5 trucks and a dozen planes in the air and maybe a new engine while you are at it, since the DNE doesn't seem to be able to do it without killing the FPS to unplayable levels. How about something really original, oh say like maybe being able to host a multiplayer room for you and your friends right from inside the game like almost every other Flight Sim has? You basically are trying to doop people into buying BOS with unsubstantiated promises of future greatness and that is just wrong.
The only thing going on over here is "calling a Spade a Spade". By holding this DEV Teams feet to the fire, by discussing the bait and switch, the lock down, the lack of quality content, and putting it in print where it won't be deleted(even if the thread is locked) we have already gotten the "Unlocks" released and mention that the Custom Graphics setting could be released later. You seem to think that shoving more money at 1C/777 will get the changes that customers want. All you have to do is do a little reading at the ROF Forum and see that that is not true. 1C/777 are going to do what they want to do regardless of what popular customer opinion says. This is what is destroying the genre for them(1C/777), their blind headstrong charge through the China shop. If this is the best they are willing to do, what BOS is, I hope they do fail because it will be nobody's fault but their own( I have never said that before, but it is the Truth, IMHO). Maybe you should cut this post, delete it from here and post it on the BOS and BOS Steam Forums? You will probably find a bunch of Pansy, Kool Aid drinking listeners there. I just don't see anyone with even a Little Sense buying what you posted here. If the Genre gets ruined and dies as you predict maybe a Phoenix will rise from the ashes and take a look at what makes a FLIGHT SIM fun, replayable, immersive and user friendly and build one. Each time I read you making this same post it makes me a little bit madder and helps me remember what a Steaming Pile of $#!t that I received for my 99$. You keep stirring that pot and I will keep helping people to realize what the smell is and where it is coming from. Just to make it clear for you, it is coming from the Steaming Pile of BOS. Is BOS an acronym used by 1C/777 meaning, BULL OF SHI#& ? It certainly seems applicable to me. If you were trying to strike a nerve with someone with this post, DING, DING, DING, give that man a Kewpie doll. Your post is complete RUBBISH IMHO. WELL ALRIGHTY THEN!

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unfortunately you're right Rama

I am grateful that 1C777 is working on a WW2 flight sim title

I am beginning to think that what we might call hardcore historical CFS enthusiast are in fact a small target group and most probably why the Dev's missed the mark.

That premise certainly hasn't been proven by BoS, the weirdest avant garde flying game ever produced. The only way your premise can be tested is through the release of a CFS similar to something successful like the original IL-2 series.

I don't know what the target group who bought the original IL-2 series would be called, but that series sold over 1.5 million units by all accounts. I would think that would be a good base to build on, rather than to abandon it and start over like they did with BoS.

I don't know what the target group who bought the original IL-2 series would be called, but that series sold over 1.5 million units by all accounts. I would think that would be a good base to build on, rather than to abandon it and start over like they did with BoS.

Rama....on a side note...is "circle the wagons" a french saying as well? Or is your English just really good? And did you say something about some photos of an old airbase out your way?

So...Sharpe are you agreeing that perhaps the market is on the downswing then for CFS, right?

So...Sharpe are you agreeing that perhaps the market is on the downswing then for CFS, right?

I don't see why it should downsize. The design and features of the games themselves need to change compared to the old days that's for certain. The greater realism that PCs are capable of today makes games with dozens or hundreds of aircraft in them impossible or at least not possible to the degree of quality this market expects. But the fun factor for the player today is vastly better than it was in the "golden age". Players have big screens, cool head tracking devices like TrackIR, or Oculus Rift. The immersion and realism is many times better than the old games. So I don't see why the genre would lose its appeal at all. It's also true that other types of games have gotten better as well and maybe they just steal away the audience. In an era old sucky games did flight sims just suck less than sucky shooter games? Why were flight sims so popular in an era when frankly playing them would have been an ordeal?
What was the attraction of flying a plane with no head tracking on a 14" 4:3 screen? I'll bet there's 2-3x the number of potential customers to sell a flight sim to today vs 2001.
The good old days are today.

If I knew then what I know now, springs to mind whenever I think of BoS... I'd certainly never have bought the thing, I've pretty much wasted my money.
One should never ever make concessions for a product, if it doesn't deliver what 'you' the purchaser wants, then it's pretty much worthless.

If it gives you pleasure however, then you have success (it's all down to the individual, we are all different)

BoSBoM will not fail because of what people say about it, or whether or not it has brilliant reviews, it will stand or fall due to it's own merit, and that is down to the developers, no one else...

Ultimately I agree .. Always have..