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pgde

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Pre-Buy KLAX?
« on: August 10, 2011, 08:17:50 pm »
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.

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Re: Pre-Buy KLAX?
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2011, 09:52:59 pm »
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.

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Re: Pre-Buy KLAX?
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2011, 02:20:18 am »
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.

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Re: Pre-Buy KLAX?
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2011, 11:29:16 am »
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.

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Re: Pre-Buy KLAX?
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2011, 12:35:53 pm »
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.

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Re: Pre-Buy KLAX?
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2011, 01:37:03 pm »
...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".
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Re: Pre-Buy KLAX?
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2011, 01:46:24 pm »
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.

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Re: Pre-Buy KLAX?
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2011, 04:57:14 pm »
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.
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