Developer's Backdoor > Chicago O'Hare V2
O'Hare V2 - New features
stevefocus:
--- Quote from: Raller on May 22, 2019, 07:11:02 pm ---Reactions exactly as expected, always makes me laugh too. Did you start a survey to determine the opposite?
Announcing a product one and a half year ago and then getting pissed when customers friendly ask for an approximate release date is a no-go for me and certainly for some other people as well.
I apologize for having forced you to become personal, so let us stop this at this point.
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Nope did not do a survey but then I was not the one who said most people have bought a competitors product. If I state something as fact then I’m normally prepared to back it up. How is you saying not to bother with release date as most customers have already bought DD friendly? Did you really think you would get a positive reply from your statement?
Kevin_28:
Personally, I'm happy both DD and FSDT is taking on Chicago. I probably will end up getting both, and I am waiting patiently for FSDT to release their O'Hare V2. What I find a bit odd is that some people don't seem to notice that devs making a decision whether to make release date announcements or not is potentially a no-win scenario. Software deving is subject to all kinds of delays due to unforeseen issues or new platform releases, etc. I've seen devs that started off giving estimated release dates and, when they weren't able to meet that, they ended up getting heavily criticized and became the subject of ridicule. Due to their experience, they stopped giving estimates and people actually get upset when they don't. At least this way, there would be little expectation and they won't feel the need to rush just to meet a deadline. Just my personal opinion though.
virtuali:
--- Quote from: Kevin_28 on May 23, 2019, 08:10:30 pm ---I've seen devs that started off giving estimated release dates and, when they weren't able to meet that, they ended up getting heavily criticized and became the subject of ridicule. Due to their experience, they stopped giving estimates and people actually get upset when they don't. At least this way, there would be little expectation and they won't feel the need to rush just to meet a deadline.
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Yes, some comments really don't make any sense. As if we ever sold anything under a pre-order or crowdfunding system. People don't realize that, a delay to make a product better, it's time ( = money ) WE are spending out of our pockets.
Or the ridiculous comments about DD supposedly "beating us" on KORD. That's laughable, considering we made KORD 10 years ago, and we expect the new one to stay on the market for several years and to be the definitive word on the airport so, releasing a few weeks later doesn't matter, when you KNOW you have the clearly superior product.
Of course, if WE were the ones *knowing* to have the lesser of two competing products, we would have rushed it to release it before anybody else, to get at least some weeks of sales out of it. But, fortunately, we are not in that position. It might not happen in the next weeks or months, but I'm sure that everybody that bought the other KORD, will end up buying our version anyway, sooner or later.
The only thing I don't like of having two competing sceneries, is that someone might decide not to buy, for example, our Basel or Pittsburgh when they'll be out, because he might feel having spent too much to purchase two versions of KORD.
But I'm not worried about KORD itself. Not the slightest, because is so much better than anything else we ever did (it's the first scenery we are not constrained by FSX compatibility), that I'm sure it will be a most buy for everybody.
In the next weeks, we'll try to publish more regular updates. But understand that even doing videos or screenshots takes away time from doing...the actual scenery.
Raller:
I'm absolutly with you. I am in the software business myself. But in life we have to have deadlines to get things done. Without a little kick in the butt, we would have been 10 years later on the moon.
I once told my wife "It's done when it's done". Not a good idea to increase the anticipation and to make it worth to wait. So lets see what happens when ever its done. Don't get me wrong, i'm still waiting...
tangjuice81:
I waiting patiently...As we have all seen the new version it is by far an "superior" product. Don't get me wrong. I have many of DD sceneries. Somethings he does great and others do better. So when it comes out be sure that many of us will buy it day one. Just like when KCLT came out that was a definite for me. FSDT do your thing. Hell take all the time you need.
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