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scenery update?
Dimon:
sounds like neither KORD nor KLAS update in CY2015 :(
Dimon:
Actually, I have been really confused with a decision to chase KMEM as it's an airport for the very specific and narrow niche of customers (cargo lovers). Pretty much the same non-standard approach PMDG chose with their MD11 7-8 years ago. Technically, it was the plane people didn't need it at all. I bought it, flew it for a month and parked it forever.
Bottom line is that it's very sad to see when rare and valuable resources of the talented people (FSDT or PMDG - doesn't matter) are invested into questionable products.
Just my opinion...no offense
nnaunau1:
Maybe the outside US scenery will be Auckland?
CX 747-400:
--- Quote from: nnaunau1 on June 12, 2015, 05:15:13 am ---Maybe the outside US scenery will be Auckland?
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Orbx/FTX is working on it. Due out sometime this year.
virtuali:
--- Quote from: Dimon on June 11, 2015, 04:29:12 pm ---Actually, I have been really confused with a decision to chase KMEM as it's an airport for the very specific and narrow niche of customers (cargo lovers).
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The "confused" here doesn't really have anything to do with the usage of "confused" by the other user, that claimed our statements about timelines to be confusing for him and not as precise as he wanted them to be.
Here, instead, you are questioning our decision to choose a specific airport, which is of course an entirely different matter than doesn't have anything to do with the argued level of communication and disclosure about future plans.
--- Quote ---Pretty much the same non-standard approach PMDG chose with their MD11 7-8 years ago. Technically, it was the plane people didn't need it at all. I bought it, flew it for a month and parked it forever.
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What does it mean "non-standard" ? Are you trying to say that, other than A320 and 737, real-world aviation doesn't exists ? I really hope this kind of reasoning is not shared by the community at large, because it's a self-defeating attitude that might eventually lead to the failure of the entire flight sim business as we know it.
What has drove us to keep doing this so far, was the idea that, with thousands of airports in the world, and so many different aspects of real-aviation, there are so many possible projects that will keep us busy for many years. The death of this (very small) industry, would be that very few developers would have to redo, forever and ever, a few "standard" products.
Which, for us, basically means redoing KJFK and KLAX forever. For PMDG redoing the 737 forever, for Aerosoft redoing Frankfurt forever, and so on...this business cannot be sustained very long, since nobody can't survive just with updates.
Note that, I don't pretend to be right. The market is always "right", even when it goes in the wrong direction. We are very aware that KMEM will surely not sell as much as KLAX or KJFK, but that's not all of it. We wouldn't made KMEM stand-alone, but we are also doing KSDF AND a GSX Cargo expansion too, so we hope the 3 together will make more sense.
But maybe it won't work, and it will be a great loss for the the whole flight sim community, because it would prove, once again, that even if users sometimes SAY things like "there are so many different airports that nobody wants to do, why you don't do XXXX", when they decide to spend *actual* cash, they "buy everything, as long it's a 737"...so to speak.
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