Oh come on now, no need to be pedantic, I'm sure you know exactly what I meant.. however, B-17 the mighty eighth, The combat flight simulator series, Battle of Britain WOV, European air war etc, they may not be in direct competition, and my post was not refering to that, but quality and standards show we will buy his stuff regardless.
If it goes to pay as you go, I'll just stick to IL2 with all these mods. Either that or I'll convert to Project Galba...
The system as I understand it is that Maddox games will be releasing full, paid-for, games (BoB, Korea, etc) and free patches which may include aircraft, while the add-on packs which third party developers will create using the dev tools Oleg will be releasing will be paid-for but optional. If the Mod community wants to build aircraft then they can use the dev tools to do this and then submit the finished aircraft to Oleg for approval and inclusion in a future free patch.
Individual aircraft will not have to be paid for unless they are being released by a third party developer.
Thanks for the heads up.. regardless of wether it's pay as you go or not, I'd still buy it!
ok .. RoF is $40 most places
12 planes now on sale @ $7.62 = $90.44
So RoF it's most current state is about $130 with 14 flyables
wow .. this actually discourages me from buying RoF big time. I'd hesitate taking it for free even if I had a sys that could run it smooth
That may be the fatal flaw in that business model, that at some point, for a new purchacer, to have the whole game in it's current state, the sim prices itself out of the market.
anyway .. no one can seem to link up the thread or post where Oleg said BoB or any SoW development might be pay-for-aircaft in the manner of RoF ..
I'll keep saying it.. even if those figures were the same as for SoW, I'd still buy it, and you know what? 99.9% of all punters on here and all the other aviation sites that are coming up with similar objections will buy it to..
And it's not a case of being a fanboy, it's because there is no comparison in quality to anything else.. there is nothing else to go and squander your money on if you love WWII aviation games.
As the present world economy is at ... I CAN
If Oleg is still honourable to the modding community, which he will be, then won't there be a chance of
I have no problem with companies making money. If you don't like it, don't buy it. They have no reason to give things away, except for patches to fix problems.
not that in an ideal world i wouldent pay for addons but this aint an ideal world and i would buy the game and hopefully a few years down the line i can pick up the addons cheaply
OR just wait for the complete edition why am i so confident there will be one? as all other games with later addons have look at all the sims not all of them but think it makes sense
having to buy one original game one addon another addon ... still best not be a compulsary purchace i still want to be able to use it online.
i simply canot afford that but still i hope it's a good game when it comes out problem is if it is not pushed for relese then the graphics will once again fall behind the times.
Pay as you go is high-way robbery. Look at Rise of Flight... You want the new plane, pay another $10 on top of what you already paid for the game. Expansions I can understand, but not this... That is why I'm glad that it won't be pay as you go.
There is a huge difference between these so called add-ons and an expansion pack. Add-ons will only affect a limited amount of people where an expansion pack will affect the larger part of the community. The problem with these add-ons, sometimes know as DLC (Down Loadable Content) how it will affect the community. If they do this buy plane by plane system then what your going to have is the few players with the latest and greatest with all the bells and whistles then have the larger part of the community with only the base game or very few add-ons. I think this will result in a negative impact on the game. The same thing can be seen in more recent games like Empire Total War. You had the base game then all the sudden all these little add-ons here and there, well these little add-ons build up, both in cash and quantity. Soon you have the few who have all these special DLC units, which greatly upsets the mechanics of the game. Such small things should be released for free. Unless your spend some hard time on the things and release something worthy and big enough to put onto a hard copy then don't bother charging for it. This whole add on/money grab is probably a result of it's success in the console world, mainly through games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Buying add-ons of songs etc. May not seem like much but it builds up my friends to the point where it just gets ridiculous.
