It's just a game....🙄

4 hours ago, harrry said:

Microsofts release dates for new products are well anounced in advance together with the staged press releases, roadshoads and all the pre release promotion that goes on.  I have never seem a Microsoft product not released on the day they anounced when they started the releases.  Granted they may have had to put fixes up shortly later but they released. 

In this case we had some pre release publicity....indicating a release time but nothing since.

I am well aware software development is a complex bussiness.  I was involved in it for a considerable time.  Customers in other areas of software demand releases go as announced.  What makes a relatively basic area of software developement different.

 

I've also been involved in Software Development for some considerable time. Since 1978 and have only just retired this year although I still keep my hand in learning new languages etc.

All along I have talked about release dates during the development phase (any release date for Windows 11 or whatever it will be called?) I just did a google search and can't find one.

Also, re Microsoft, here is a current link very relevant to what we are talking about here https://www.petri.com/with-windows-1809-delayed-oems-are-shipping-new-devices-with-unsupported-software

I also notice you didn't mention Apple. They announce either just before or on the day of release.

Also how about the release date for one dear to our heart Prepar3D V4.4 ? Lockheed Martin are a huge company, surely they can give us a release date? Everything is under NDA and we will find out on the day of the release. Of course there are a lot of reasons why companies do this not all related to the complexity of the software development process.

Most of the companies I have dealt with professionally in my career have not published firm release dates (but more a generic "road map" with lots of wiggle room if anything is published at all)

Anyway this is getting way off topic.

Yes, it would be nice to have some form of update but I'm not getting bent out of shape that there isn't.

Will I buy this the instant it is released. Without a doubt 🙂

 

 

Edited November 10, 20187 yr by PaulFWatts

2 hours ago, DavidP said:

It's just a game....🙄

lol DavidP. Even that is up for debate as many will say it's a simulation and not a game 🙂

 

People's expectations these days... Can't wait 1-2 Months ? I am pretty sure the release is not that far. And I prefer having a trustworthy developper announcing his product a few weeks before release date, instead of some alpha-never-finished-early-access stuff which development span on years.

And please keep in mind that the excellency of RealAir products has never been denied, even years after their release date. IMO, it is far more important than releasing daily screenshots, and commenting on release dates speculations.

Edited November 10, 20187 yr by RockOla

As I am an aging, overweight, middle-aged, middle-class male, I am happy to wait patiently with excited enthusiasm.  Whenever Sean (or Rob) release anything, including a "flying box-O-donuts", I will buy it, and it will give me YEARS (maybe like previously DECADES) of superb enjoyment.  Immediate gratification and supreme entitlement seem to be societal norms- I however still consider them anathemas.  We seem to be devolving as a species, and these 4 pages should serve as proof.

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3 hours ago, RockOla said:

instead of some alpha-never-finished-early-access stuff which development span on years.

Who can you mean?

OK, this one has run it's course.  Time to move along.