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Why? Why? :-(
virtuali:
--- Quote from: eastern on May 09, 2013, 01:06:34 am ---Is their a reason why Florence was not available to purchase via FSDT web-sight?
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It was made before the FSDT name and website existed and in fact, is listed as being developed by "Virtuali s.a.s" on Aerosoft site, because FSDT wasn't even born back then, and we also had our hands full working for Microsoft at the F/A-18, so it was convenient not have to worry about publishing and support.
We thought that a scenery of one of the most famous cities in Italy, with an interesting approach, a city fully modeled in 3d, with fast fps too, sold by a very well known publisher, would fare quite well...but apparently not. And this was one of the reasons why we decided to start FSDT and doing everything internally instead of relying on a publisher.
eastern:
Umberto thank you for the explanation and background.
srcooke:
--- Quote ---The true reality is that 80% of users are in the US, and the remaining 20% is split between Germany, UK, France and Canada
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Possibly as 80% of the marketed scenery's are targeted at the American market ! :)
virtuali:
--- Quote from: srcooke on May 10, 2013, 11:53:06 am ---Possibly as 80% of the marketed scenery's are targeted at the American market ! :)
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We started doing European stuff. If it was true (and it isn't) that doing european stuff would be more commercially feasible, we would go back to it.
And note that, "Europe" for the PC market, really means 60% Germany/Switzerland, 20% UK and 20% divided amongst all the remaining ones. Since there are already lots of established scenery products for Germany and UK (guess why, it's not that only we can read stats...), we would either start to compete with them, so users will complain about the need for ANOTHER Frankfurt or Heathrow, or we would have to lose time chasing the less interesting markets.
And of course, we have two products that are not "local", which are GSX and XPOI. And guess what, even for those products that are not related to a specific place, the users distribution is still overwhelmingly in favor of the US.
Perhaps, in case Kickstarter will ever open in Italy (not likely in the short term), we might start a Kickstarter campaign for Rome Fiumicino or Milan Malpensa, and see how it goes...
srcooke:
I had to make a play on your statistics Umberto :), of course you know your market.
That said I reside in the UK and have a few of your State-side scenery's along with GSX plus Geneva a European scenery ;)
And of course I greatly enjoy your products.
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