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Edited July 25, 20223 yr by psolk
Deleted.  Reported instead. 

10 minutes ago, MDFlier said:

I might just stick with the 700. I'm pretty happy with it.

The missing EFB is the only thing that really bothers me at the moment. Should have been in the initial release. Good thing I have a 2nd monitor and a tablet to run the performance calculations on. At least I can work around it by having the Simbrief OFP and Navigraph charts on the 2nd monitor.

Same. If I had had the choice, I would have bought the 738, but now I'm fine as it is. The only thing that really bothers me about it is not having it through the ingame store, the PMDG way to install things seriously sucks IMHO. But the lack of EFB doesn't bother me much.

29 minutes ago, MDFlier said:

I might just stick with the 700. I'm pretty happy with it.

Same with me. Southwest -- the only airline I personally would likely simulate -- has plenty of the 700s and I have no problem imagining that, for some reason unknown to me as the pilot, Operations has switched out the scheduled 800 for a 700 on my given flight today. I do not see a compelling reason for adding the 800. That said, once they implement their new LNAV and introduce the tablet, I might revisit this decision and pick up the 800, but I am in no hurry. I personally have absolutely no interest in the 600 or the 900. I had these in P3D and can count on two hands how many times I used them.

Just now, Cognita said:

I do not see a compelling reason for adding the 800. That said, once they implement their new LNAV and introduce the tablet, I might revisit this decision and pick up the 800, but I am in no hurry. I personally have absolutely no interest in the 600 or the 900. I had these in P3D and can count on two hands how many times I used them.

I assume they will update the 700 with the new LNAV as well right?

Just now, bigifooti said:

I assume they will update the 700 with the new LNAV as well right?

They have said they will, as a free update at about the same time the -600 is released.

31 minutes ago, jbdbow1970 said:

"If PMDG were to offer deep discounts on other 737 variants it would really ruin the immersion factor as Boeing doesn't do that IRL. To be honest, I would have to put the 737-700 in the hanger if PMDG did that as the entire sense realism would be lost."

 

 

^^^^^ Huh?

Sarcasm that was meant to get a giggle. I read so many posts from people 'parking planes in the hanger' due to some form of 'immersion' being ruined for them because something isn't quite the same as IRL or so they believe. Humor is a very foreign thing on flight simulation forums these days so it will probably just anger people. 🙂

Just now, rjquick said:

Sarcasm that was meant to get a giggle. I read so many posts from people 'parking planes in the hanger' due to some form of 'immersion' being ruined for them because something isn't quite the same as IRL or so they believe. Humor is a very foreign thing on flight simulation forums these days so it will probably just anger people. 🙂

Ah ok I was a little confused, I'm a little old school I take sarcasm from text with green fonts.

Edited July 25, 20223 yr by jbdbow1970

What a surprise their original release and update timeline was wildly off. 

1 hour ago, Cognita said:

The only way I can make sense of it is if it is arguing that PMDG consciously put the 700 and 600 variants out first knowing that people could not control their impulses, would not be capable of exercising basic patience, and would buy one or both of the smaller variants while waiting for the 800, which is the only variant that people really want.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that was exactly the plan and regardless of whether it was I'm even more sure they made a lot more revenue by releasing the 700 first rather than the 800 from people not holding off on it until the version they wanted more.

Rather, what I find strange and a bit funny is that many people seem to think PMDG pulled a business strategy masterpiece with this. Every time you buy something on Amazon, on any other shopping website or even in a physical store you're being played psychologically in ways you don't even notice apart from the typical tricks like the good old .99 price tag and I would be surprised if many people cared about that. This isn't meant as an excuse for any business trying to trick the customer, but in comparison releasing a less popular variant first is so innocent and obvious that it's funny that that's what grinds people's gears rather than entire departments of scholars developing ways to manipulate you at every buy you make.

1 hour ago, threegreen said:

Actually, I'm pretty sure that was exactly the plan

Possibly, or it could be that the 800 is a little more complex and they needed some more time to finish it and decided to go first with the 700 and 600 variants. Regardless, the "marketing strategy" only works if those who only want the 800 also have little will power and patience.

28 minutes ago, Cognita said:

Possibly, or it could be that the 800 is a little more complex and they needed some more time to finish it and decided to go first with the 700 and 600 variants. Regardless, the "marketing strategy" only works if those who only want the 800 also have little will power and patience.

The 800 isn't really more complex than the others in terms of systems, just different in a few things under the hood. PMDG did say the reason for the 700 and 600 releases to come first is that they would have had to backward engineer because of a few things that the 800 and 900 have that the 600 and 700 don't have. I'm usually not buying the 'conspiracy' theories around PMDG that people like to come up with and I'm not saying they wouldn't have had to backward engineer/that this is not a legitimate reason, but in this case I'm sure releasing the less popular variants first is at least the other half of the motivation for the release order. I'm also sure there are a lot of people that bought the 700 despite originally not planning to.

Edited July 25, 20223 yr by threegreen

I'm trying to think of a price point at which I would buy the -600 and I keep coming up with the same answer. Even if it were free I still wouldn't waste valuable hard drive space.

Excited for the -800.

5 hours ago, MDFlier said:

I might just stick with the 700. I'm pretty happy with it.

Same. I see no reason to spend money on the -800. 

Well I am waiting for the 800 and with the credit I have with PMDG it won't cost me a cent. And yes even if the the 600 (or the 700 for that matter) was similarly priced for me I wouldn't get it.  I might however consider paying for the 900.

Bruce

just waiting for the 800 version which is the most popular, I will be a happy camper