Pre-Buy KLAX?

[pgde]

Hi:

As a customer of HNL and Hawaiian Airports No. 1, I am anxiously waiting to buy and install Hawaiian Airports No 2.  But I can't until KLAX comes out since I want that as well so that I can get the cross-sell discount for 2 or more products.

If this was possible, then I think many of us would take a deep breath and stop hassling you about when the release of LAX will be.

Just an idea.

P.

[virtuali]

If this was possible, then I think many of us would take a deep breath and stop hassling you about when the release of LAX will be.

If we would allow pre-sales, I think the exact opposite will happen: we would be heavily pressured into releasing it, just to fulfill our obligation towards people that purchased it in advance.

[pgde]

I guess it would depend why one is pre-purchasing -- in my case I am being prevented from using HA no.2 due to the relatively imminent release of KLAX. I could understand if it was months away, but it seems to be only a few weeks away.

Regards,

Peter

[virtuali]

I could understand if it was months away, but it seems to be only a few weeks away.

Yes, it's theoretically very close, but better be safe than sorry, because things happens.

For example, we are still not 100% sure to do an FS9 version (we always said it's likely, but not *sure*) so, if someone preordered with the intention of using it on FS9 and it wouldn't be released, we would end up in a very bad situation, having to refund lots of money, etc.

[ckaack]

Indeed preordering does not make any sense as this would at the end force FSDT to release a half ready add-on. This is not what we need or even want.

FSX is enough. Just drop this legacy FS9.

[Bruce Hamilton]

...this would at the end force FSDT to release a half ready add-on.

Where does that information come from?  ORBX releases all their sceneries within six weeks of putting them on prepay, not one has ever been released "half ready".

[ckaack]

They are lucky. Prepaid products put a lot of pressure on the supplier to deliver within a certain time frame and I can fully understand why FSDT does not want this.

[Bruce Hamilton]

They are lucky. Prepaid products put a lot of pressure on the supplier to deliver within a certain time frame...

Nothing lucky about it, when they put the product out for prepay at their reseller it is, for all intents and purposes, a completed project.  Those six weeks are for final touches, alpha/beta besting, compiling the unwrapper, etc.