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Why? Why? :-(
jgoggi:
Dear FSDreamTeam, why didn't you develop Rome Fiumicino airport? It would have been a wonderful scenery, a great success, all Italian simmers (at least) would have greatly enjoyed it! It would have really been a dream (fsDREAMteam, indeed...). The real life situation is instead well different, an Aerosoft FS9 scenery come out almost 3 months ago that is probably the worst scenery sold by Aerosoft, full of bugs and low quality textures and an FSX "ghost" scenery that nobody knows if under development (not a single screenshot posted, after 1 and half years since the announcement of the project) and that, even if will be released, will only be an FS9 portover with the same bugs...
Really sad :-(
virtuali:
--- Quote from: jgoggi on April 29, 2013, 09:28:44 am ---Dear FSDreamTeam, why didn't you develop Rome Fiumicino airport?
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Because US sceneries sells many (really, many) times more. Last time we did an italian scenery some years ago, it was Florence and it was published by Aerosoft. You would imagine that an airport of one of the most worldwide known italian cities, with a spectacular and difficult approach, a complete nearby city modeled in 3d included and with an extremely good frame rate, published by reputable publisher such as Aerosoft, would sell good. Well, guess again, because it sold less in 3 years than what JFK (but even Zurich) sold in the first 24 hours after its original release.
Since it would take just the same amount of time/effort doing LIRF compared to any other similarly sized US airport, it's clear it won't make any economic sense for us doing it.
--- Quote ---It would have been a wonderful scenery, a great success, all Italian simmers (at least) would have greatly enjoyed it! It would have really been a dream (fsDREAMteam, indeed...).
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Unfortunately, italian simmers are either too few, or don't buy that much, or a combination of the two. And not because we offer products they might not be not interested into: we have two products (XPOI and, especially, GSX, which is our best selling product right now) that are not country-related, so we can have a clear picture how many simmers are out there. The true reality is that 80% of users are in the US, and the remaining 20% is split between Germany, UK, France and Canada. Italian are maybe 2% of the total, we sell more in countries such as Norway, Sweden and Denmark, although their population is a tiny fraction of Italy...
But you have some ways to make us changing our minds: go buy Aerosoft Florence en-masse, we'll surely notice it!
--- Quote ---The real life situation is instead well different, an Aerosoft FS9 scenery come out almost 3 months ago that is probably the worst scenery sold by Aerosoft, full of bugs and low quality textures and an FSX "ghost" scenery that nobody knows if under development
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As you might know, Aerosoft publishes many products made by many different developers, so the resulting quality varies a lot depending on who made it. They know the market well too, don't you think that, if they really believed in a Fiumicino airport product, they would assign it to one of their best developers ?
jgoggi:
Well, I guess that Florence did not have a great success because the airport has a short runway and only few types of aircraft can land in it. The majority of simmers, that is all those flying the 737, the MD80, the A320, not to speak of bigger airplanes, are excluded from flying to that airport...
I agree with you that Aerosoft gave very little importance to Fiumicino, and they did not assign it to their best developers, but I am still convinced that they made a mistake! People from all over the world want to fly to Fiumicino, and I am sure that a well done scenery would have gained quite a huge success. I can't believe that some completely or almost completely unknown airports that have been released by software houses like Aerosoft could be more successful worldwide than Rome's airport....
Anyway if that is your choice, I respect it, even if I do not agree.
virtuali:
--- Quote ---Well, I guess that Florence did not have a great success because the airport has a short runway and only few types of aircraft can land in it. The majority of simmers, that is all those flying the 737, the MD80, the A320, not to speak of bigger airplanes, are excluded from flying to that airport...
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Then probably even Orbx is wrong and they like to lose money, since they only release GA airports for airplane type far smaller than what can land in Florence, in places nobody ever heard of...
--- Quote from: jgoggi on April 30, 2013, 10:07:39 am ---I agree with you that Aerosoft gave very little importance to Fiumicino, and they did not assign it to their best developers, but I am still convinced that they made a mistake!
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--- Quote ---Anyway if that is your choice, I respect it, even if I do not agree.
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It seems that all developers makes mistakes in their choices...don't you think, if Italy was a viable market, we would have many products released by now ? The first rule of any free market is: if there's some market potential, someone will enter into it.
soundman:
If it's any consolation, I ( and probably the vast number of people here ) will buy any airport your team develops.
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