Sylmaron wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:53 am
I say punish because we all know that if tfs doesnt continue, thats it for this type of flight sim for a very long time. Pack up and go home theres nothing else out there, dcs and box are not serious alternatives.
This is an attitude that appears to have been cultivated over the last 5 to 10 years and it is less true now than it has been at any point during that time.
I only need to say MFS 2020 to prove it. There are more people interested in flight simulation right now than at any time since 2004. That interest and that technology will very likely start off a new wave of titles, both civil and military in scope.
And to say that DCS or the Great Battles series are not serious alternatives is clearly not accurate. You're literally posting that statement on a forum for a group that has conducted large involved campaigns using the Great Battles series - a series that has a great deal more content available to it than CloD, including many features such as aircraft lighting, working and varied weather systems, etc. Is it perfect? Of course not. Is CloD? Of course not.
For my part, DCS is our alternative. My squadron has been making and playing co-op campaigns on the various DCS maps in various eras of aircraft and having a great time. We've flown Korean war scenarios using F-86s, we've done WWII missions across the channel and back, and we're running a middle-east battle scenario with F-18s and F-14s off the deck of the super-carrier (which is pretty incredible actually). Is it perfect? Of course not, but it's definitely as good as or better than anything we were doing before.
If you think there's nothing else quite like CloD, then you're right. There isn't. It's different in specific ways. But it is starting to feel like there's a stockholm syndrome kicking in about the title. Many of us felt we were stuck with it and had no alternative. That's most definitely not the case.
The Flight Sim community is alive, more so now than in a long time. It's just CloD and its community that's dying and has been for a while. The idea that anyone should have to defend it against comments such as Reddog has made is holding onto the idea that we all have to band together to 'save' the industry. We don't. It's fine. And you don't have to go through Steam reviews of other games for very long to see that Reddog's comments are pretty tame and reasonable in comparison. I think mostly people are just taking a history of discontent and making more of the man than the message. It's a common issue in sports. The referee or the umpire becomes the story and not the action on the field, when in reality they and their mannerisms don't matter at all - it's what's on the pitch/field that counts.
You don't like the way Reddog says it? Fine. If we're being honest, I don't agree with the tone of his posts either sometimes. Just ignore that and him and decide for yourself if the actual points he's putting forward are true or not. Because if you just focus on that, he's not wrong in a lot of what he says.
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