Jason, like you, "I'm tired of the gloom and doom threads here" but there is a reason they are here and you are among the reasons for them.
Hey Tom,
While you are certainly entitled to your opinion, this looks more like a justification attempt, or an excuse to make "doom and gloom" ok. I cannot subscribe to this line of thought.
Folks, keep in mind when you read this, Jason is like the guy at the car lot selling this sim ("What can I do to get you to drive it home today?") and his interests are not exactly the same as "Joe Sim Player." His primary interest is greed (on which our entire capitalistic system is based and we can all see where that got us in the past year).
So what you are saying here is something like:
Jason: "I need to make a quick buck, hey! I'll use ROF to take money from a small niche group, yeah! I'll make bank and be the next Bill Gates!"
...see how silly that sounds?No, I see it more like this:
Jason: " Dude have you seen ROF? It's bad-ass! I want to get behind this and help in whatever way I can to get this out to the people!"
...wouldn't that make more sence? I mean, c'mon, really?I mean, I understand how common it is for folks to automatically assume a game developer (as it's publishers) are all just money-grubbing capitalists who are all about the mighty dollar....but give it a rest, will ya? Jason has already proven that he's not that kinda' guy! Those profit-guys are not about going out of their way to help a single user once he has their cash! You need to lighten up and look at the entire picture here.
It isn't so much that "we're barely 120 days out from launch" (as Jason says) but the fact that most of this should have been working properly at launch (that's the part he doesn't say).
They (including Jason as the publisher) shudda been "on it" before they "released it."
And there are a myriad of explinations as to why it came out like it did...many of them have slivers of truth to them. But the fact remains that ROF is
still 120 days released.... I have a better time drawing conclusion on facts rather than emtions and opinions on why it should or shouldn't be one way or another...
Clearly many of these problems were identified during the initial beta testing and not resolved before RoF hit the market as a retail product.
Identified, yes....but like anything else some things cannot meet deadlines (set by parties not in dev control) and must be addressed at a later date. Surely you can understand this concept, yes?
Jason is just laying down a smoke screen here. He's telling you what he wants you to believe. Like any salesman, he's "your new best friend."
This is unfair, and just your opinion!! I do not share in this opinion, and think you are crossing a line making judgments about things you know very little about ( no offence intended there - seriously)
I sincerely hope what Jason is saying is correct and accurate ("they're working very hard..." "your initial investment will be more than fulfilled in just a few short weeks....") but my BS Alarm is going off at very high volume with every sentence I read. Somebody is laying it on waaaay too thick....
And I too hope Jason is correct. But I am 99.9% certain that he is telling what he believes...and
not blowing smoke up peoples' asses!
Granted, the Camel and the DR1 look beautiful.
But all of ROF's planes look beautiful and (mostly) fly beautifully.
That's the primary reason I stick around. I really enjoy the models. They are, IMO, the best ever in any flight sim.
But the game play? Pretty sad.
"All of this is being worked on...."
I'll believe it when I see it.
And if I do say it, I will say "Thank you."
But not quite yet.
HT
Well, I hope to hear that "Thank You" someday. What I recommend is a bit more (no, substantially more) patience. Not fixed in 120 days is understandable...not fixed after a good many months/years!? Then I'll come back to this post and agree with you 1000% Tom!
But Neoqb has a finite number of bodies working on the fixes. It sucks that it takes longer than a day or week to address and correct....but it just does! We all need to realise this and deal with it. Even if dealing with it means taking a break and coming back later. It's this
daily discussion that makes it seem to take too long. But realistically, look at all that Neoqb has done in those 120 days, and how much of that is
directly because of user feedback. You might be supprised.
Humbly submitted,
S!!
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