DCS World content creator and Apache pilot Casmo has posted a great interview with Eagle Dynamics’ Matt Wagner about the DCS: Afghanistan map. It’s an interesting interview and there are some key takeaways that folks might find interesting. Let’s dig into it!
On the map and other maps
I highly encourage everyone to watch Casmo’s interview with Matt as it covers quite a bit of ground from how long it takes to build a map like this to the economics of it to other projects that they are working on.
While Casmo and Matt did talk about a bit of the pricing controversy, it seems to me that this is mostly a non-issue and the comments from my recent post about it seem to echo that. Those who want the full map will buy the full map and those who only want a specific piece can get that piece for cheaper. One thing that Matt did say that I found interesting is that they are exploring an “edge case” where someone buys one piece, then another piece and then finally buys the remaining piece. Right now that ends up being more expensive but they are looking at a system to discount the remaining purchase.
Matt also reported that DCS: Afghanistan was built much more quickly than prior maps with Eagle Dynamics latest mapping tools streamlining the process. That’s why they are building DCS: Afghanistan and DCS: Iraq more or less simultaneously though Matt did say that it’s still a large team of 20 plus people.
Another interesting takeaway is a bit of a teaser that there are two other unannounced maps in the works and that these are more “green” than Afghanistan and Iraq. Count me as excited by those prospects!
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