Will arma 2 be abandoned for vbs 2?

[BKnight3 0]

I'm looking at the official website of VBS 2 and ponder what I see in the near future.  I see dedicated "expensive" software being sold to the military with VBS 2 being $1500, with addons for each skin/weaponry costing $50 each.  

http://virtualbattlespace.vbs2.com/index.p....emid=49

http://virtualbattlespace.vbs2.com/index.p....emid=49

All those tools/skins/models that we seem to want and the addon community labor over, all seem to already exist in the VBS 2 library and are possibly even profitting from it.  It looks to me that it is possible that the people that are creating this game may simply just abandon the creation of ARMA 2 for the obvious cash they can make from the militaries of the world for argueably the same product.

Will ARMA 2 ever see the light of day?  Will they dedicate themselves only for the contractor work and shun the OFP community(lol)?  What do you think?

[stakex 0]

I'm looking at the official website of VBS 2 and ponder what I see in the near future.  I see dedicated "expensive" software being sold to the military with VBS 2 being $1500, with addons for each skin/weaponry costing $50 each.  

http://virtualbattlespace.vbs2.com/index.p....emid=49

http://virtualbattlespace.vbs2.com/index.p....emid=49

All those tools/skins/models that we seem to want and the addon community labor over, all seem to already exist in the VBS 2 library and are possibly even profitting from it.  It looks to me that it is possible that the people that are creating this game may simply just abandon the creation of ARMA 2 for the obvious cash they can make from the militaries of the world for argueably the same product.

Will ARMA 2 ever see the light of day?  Will they dedicate themselves only for the contractor work and shun the OFP community(lol)?  What do you think?

Tho we are not really suppose to talk about VBS here, I do suppose its kinda more ArmA2 related. VBS and VBS2 have been around for years, and both have benefited from eachothers development. BIS did not abandon OFP, ARMA, and theres no reason to believe they will abandon ArmA2 because of them. Besides... BIA develops VBS, while BIS develops ArmA/ArmA2. Also not to mention, they would have canceled ArmA2 years ago when they were doing the main work on VBS2 if that was going to be the case. They wouldn't do it now, after VBS2 has been released, and ArmA2's probly only a year or so away.

After ArmA2 however, thats a diffrent story. It really wouldn't supprise me if ArmA2 is the last public game from BIS. But I guess that really depends on how well it does. If ArmA2 sells like a lead ballon, and VBS and VBS2 are selling very well... I don't really see much of a future for games from BIS beyond Arma2.

Oh, and thoes $50 add-on packs are for VBS1... not VBS2

[Placebo 29]

BIS develop games and are developing the announced ArmA2, BIA develop military simulators, end of.