surely, it's not that Dave woke up and decided -"let's switch to DCS ACE from now on, everyone not passing shall be banned" or something (I hope so )
it in fact created fresh flow of air in rather stinky lately environment if you ask me
I will wait and see with positive approach, I think I have made myself plausible picture what DCS will evolve into -two, three theaters and several DCS A-10c level planes in a year or two, and some unofficial 3rd party either pay -or freeware addon planes, of lower quality and complexity, then another kind of release (World 2.0?) that will further integrate the air and ground warfare aspects for those with signed and blessed addons, perhaps without the possibility to fully utilise those unofficial mods
Then I think other company or doughter to TFC/ED will produce other independent title revolving around one of lesser known conflicts (I hope for Korea...) as a stand alone
on the other hand back to TW... remember my postprocess shader tweaks like old film or sepia or vignette? Kiss them goodbye cause seems this last patch locked those away (engine not uses them) -that's of course a downer and another brick in the wall pulled off...