Hi,

http://cerasimaircraft.com/index.html

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Not sure what bankruptcy has to do with cheap slimy b*stards who are unwilling to pay for an awesome product, but whatever.

I just bought the Bell 222 not to long ago.

Yeah sorry to hear of them going bankrupt as I bought their Cera222 a few weeks ago and it is top notch, I was looking forward to hearing what their next helo was going to be.

I doubt piracy can be the sole cause, as I tend to think a lot of the pirates are not potential customers in the first place because they have an averrsion to paying for addons, but lets hope some of their dev team endup working for other groups that may have better luck.

If piracy was the main problem you would think they could team up withsome of the publishers with good antipiracy methods (flight1 etc.)

Damn, that sucks! Good helicopters for FSX are in short supply.

I hate software piracy and refuse to have anything to do with it. It kills the hobby, not to mention being just plain wrong.

I'd rather shell out the bucks so people will carry on making the things I love.

Very sad.

Cheers!

Rick...

This.

There's more to this than pirates.

...maybe it wasn't piracy but a lack of brand awareness because this is the first time I've ever heard of Cerasim and I consider myself pretty well familiar with most brand names in the FS9/FSX addon business.

Well that's one of the reasons i posted the resource thread lol. I guess not many people have gone through the whole thing.

I think probably because helos are the smallest niche within all the other FSX payware niches, below the tubeliners, the GA aircraft, airports, scenery etc... so it is not surprising that it might be hard to make it as a developer of mainly payware helicopters.

With that said their stuff was really good and I am hoping somehow they continue on either independently or published by one of the bigger companies that does software "activation" to thwart the simple pirates, with my purchase of their 222 it looked like all it needed was the email/password combo that was sent when I bought it at SimMarket, probably not hard for some slimy #%&*$# who doesn't care to share their copy, but if it required activation against a central server that tracked the unique machine being installed to the one license it might detect when a single license was being installed to lots of different machines...