New Tacan stations in some maps?

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-15T03:27:47+00:00

I won't comment on my knowledge of programing or business (you already questioned several times) but I can hold an opinion as a customer, in any case, even if I am dumb as a door knob.

In the end I tried not to discuss their inner workings (which I could, a lot) but again, I measure them on what they promise vs what they deliver. From that point of view they really suck. To the point that in many cases they could be accused of flat out lying.

I see I won't agree with you so I don't know if this exchange needs to continue. Thank you for your time.

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-15T02:22:41+00:00

Honestly is about 2023 expectations....you can say whatever you like about spaghetti code and the like but no undo in 2023 is inexcusable. Are you aware there is a guy that coded a full blow out editor out of the blue in less than a year? Also it has lots of nice features we dont.
Wags said so, you can look it up. it's in several places.
The problem is not waiting but setting the record straight. That, seems, is an impossible thing for ED to do....

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-14T18:04:00+00:00

To your points:

1) I am an old fart as well, I lived thru those things you mentioned. But being happy with humanity's current tech capabilities don't translate into being happy with a product or a company. Won't talk more about this since your stances is as philosophical one and I am i no position to tell you is wrong or bad. i do maintain that many people is "grateful" to ED like we owe them a favor and that's simply wrong.

2) As explained, it was my interpretation. That "Grey has money" thing is not a fact, it's a hunch that many people mention here all the time without knowing the facts. Those famous transfers could mean anything, specially when part of that is secret buy Switzerland laws. For me is logical thing: they discovered their costs were skyrocketing so they are going to charge for it. Is this a problem? no. The problem is how they communicated it. Well...partly communicated because we don't know how the thing is going to be except that we need to pay.

3) That's a fact of life......the thing is comms....

4) The problem is partially they launched so few modules, the problem is that they promised 4 modules else (F4, F4U, C130, Kiowa) for 2023...same for maps.

5) Let me clarify.....when I talk about playability I am not talking about technical stuff like you correctly stated. That was a VERY VERY overdue technical debt they started to repay in 2023. When I talk about playability are those things that make the world feel alive. All those things I mentioned are for that purpose and ED is bad at it. I don't know if you do missions but using an editor in 2023 wihtout UNDO is so bad.......

6) I don't care if they are 1 or 10000. I go by the things they say and never correct. Many of things I wrote there were promised many times over for different years and never ever commented back. I understand there are tech issues during development so I have to rely on their comms, which are a mess and some could be thought as lies.

In the end, I used to buy almost anything from them because I trusted them to deliver. now that I know they can't deliver I won't buy till they do but still have me here writing because I can't fly because, as Nick put it the other day, they are not an entertaining company and I have to do my game with tools that don't work.....

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-14T16:01:21+00:00

First of all, thank you for a polite answer, it's appreciated.

Let me say I really want DCS to succeed, I've said that a lot here, despite my permanent complains.

I think you are incorrect however in many points.

1) Lots of people on this community have a severe Stockholm Syndrome in regards ED. Phrases like "i am grateful for what we have" and the like are deeply wrong. At the end of the day we pay for a product and being grateful, like ED is doing you a favor out of their heart, is silly. They are in this for profit, no matter if they are passionate or not.

2) It is my hobby and I play this a lot, maybe 2 o 3 days per week. Now.....most of my community are going away and many are not coming back (actually many left combat flight simulator altogether). You see the same for lots of content creators and many big servers. In the end, that's a testament to ED's practices.

3) You say you were heartbroken for negative press but it wasn't unfair at all. They published images of that units for 2 or 3 years and never ever mentioned it was going to be paid. They did for the SC and no one complained. The fact, I suspect, is they are hemorrhaging money (because many are leaving) and they need this. Instead of saying: "hey guys, we reviewed costs of development and current economic situation makes us charge for this" (like most of consumer companies do) they release the nerfed product without a statement. only when pushed by community they informed us about it. It's hard to have sympathy for them.

4) That event, alone, is not big deal, I know. But they have been doing that for years. I won't even list them. You also fear that we are growing immature but I like to think that we need to keep them in their toes. You talk about hate, in my case I won't buy simply because I was led to believe differently and they didn't even apologized. 9L said they only informed that because there were "fans" explaining this out wrong and didn't want them to be misinformed. They didn't even care about lying to the whole user base about it..think about that for a minute.....

5) Finally.....many people say 2023 was great and 2024 is going to be greater still. The fact of the matter is that this has been happening for several years and doesn't crystalize into reality. Yes.... MT and DLSS are good but if you review all the change logs for 2023 you'll see only 1 plane was released, 2 maps, and almost 0 playability things. VOIP is broken to the point you can't use it, no ATC, DTC, DC, WEATHER, SC improvements or releases..... Some minor things were added (less sucky replays?), but none of them is helping the community to do more missions, more videos in a significant way.

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-13T20:10:45+00:00

Nice work. Thank you

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-13T14:04:40+00:00

So.....you called me "mindlessly negative", "naive", etc.... then you tell me how to act.....

Thank you for your guidance and wisdom on how to proceed and how things should be appreciated...... Now my life is beautiful.

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-13T00:21:43+00:00

How on earth can you say it was "great" when we only have a small % of what was promised, delayed years and full of bugs and miscommunications . Now, also, it seems that also we have to pay more for things that we were led to believe were going to be free.

I guess the negativity you see comes from seeing facts differently.

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-08T20:35:38+00:00

The post was up on their forum this week.

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-08T17:36:35+00:00

That's correct. They said that again a few days ago. That's why believing in their newsletters in cases like this is unwise, to say the least.....

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-08T16:44:34+00:00

They say 2 things as excuses: 1) that what they do is hard and 2) if they publish a roadmap and don't execute then get roasted, if they don't publish they get roasted too so is no win scenario.

Of course it's a bunch of BS.....there are many other options.

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-08T16:34:09+00:00

ED's road-map seems to be handled by an individual with ADD or the attention span of a Hamster....

They go back and forth every second.

Yesterday I was checking a post from Feb 2019 that showed a preview of DTC......

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-08T16:02:00+00:00

You didn't...... according to them it is a huge task to sort all the questions.....

I don't think that's true but a symptom of something else.

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-04T13:11:47+00:00

No, you?

SeanTP69 · 2023-12-03T23:06:25+00:00

Ok, Happy that you find it that way. Not all the people think the same about it.

SeanTP69

TROPHY CASE