1 minute ago, The Moose said:

Indeed, but I don't feel having a moan after two and a half+ months is being impatient personally. Your tolerance level may be higher than mine 😉

And surely there are laws against selling knowingly broken products?  I don't see that as a shortcoming, I see it as a very dodgy practice which reflects very poorly on a once great company.

Ah!  You mean continuing to sell even while it is broken.  Got you - I am with you on that one. 

The least they should do is suspend sale while it is broken, or new purchasers will have problems from day one after paying good money.

Erm....I thought mine looked OK.

 

On 7/12/2022 at 3:32 AM, The Moose said:

None of which is of any concern to the end user.   

Any company making addons for this platform knows their product may be broken by any sim update. This is hardly new news  If they don't have the capability/manpower to fix the products in a timely manner then perhaps they shouldn't be selling them in the first place.    Lets not pretend it's just the Meshes either, Cityscapes and Airports also take an age to get fixed.   I think I was 3 months for the Sydney cityscape, and we're almost at 3 months for the Alaska and Asia meshes.  

Individual developers circumstances (Ukraine based devs for example) for sure play a part in these things, but these products are being sold under the Orbx banner, not just being sold through their store. If Orbx don't have a plan in place to implement quicker fixes when things get broken on products carrying their name then that's just poor business practice.  When I couldn't work for several months due to medical reasons I had to sub-contract out my upcoming jobs and any fixes required to previous work at a large loss to my finances.  It's called running a business. I had planned ahead for "unforeseen circumstances" and kept a loyal customer base thanks to that.

Extreme circumstances for delays are forgivable though, but it's a growing trend with Orbx.  What isn't forgivable is still offering these products for sale whilst they are broken  That is completely unacceptable, but feel free to try and justify that dodgy practice....

Have to agree with you here. We have freeware makers in AIG putting more effort into keeping their software working. If it is going to take an entire quarter for ORBX to fix what Asobo breaks they will always be an update behind. 

ORBX Central just gave me a 6GB update for Alaska Mesh, nothing on their forums about it.  Not had chance to try it yet, hopefully this is a fix for the visuals.

Correction:  [announcement] Alaska Mesh 1.2.0 update (MSFS) - Orbx Release Announcements - Orbx Community and Support Forums (orbxdirect.com)

Edited July 17, 20223 yr by sidfadc

4 minutes ago, sidfadc said:

ORBX Central just gave me a 6GB update for Alaska Mesh, nothing on their forums about it.  Not had chance to try it yet, hopefully this is a fix for the visuals.

Correction:  [announcement] Alaska Mesh 1.2.0 update (MSFS) - Orbx Release Announcements - Orbx Community and Support Forums (orbxdirect.com)

Well that is good news. Anyone using it with beta 10? 

I would hope they've already checkrd via the SU10 Beta that is all good with that, otherwise it may be pointless doing an update that might break soon anyway!

Himalayan update coming 23rd July.