9 minutes ago, Franz007 said:

This I can understand much better. A dev not answering a support-request is a red-flag.

I understand the time and effort that goes into developing an aircraft. I understand that it is a lot of dedication and knowledge. But the lack of support is a service that a developer must provide. These things make my opinion of a developer change. The AKD in general seems to be a good aircraft and can improve a lot in the future. But the lack of support makes me distrust and makes me think about not buying the AKD G650 due to their attitudes. I hope that it is something that all developers and future developers take note of regarding the quality of technical support.

2 hours ago, mjrhealth said:

No its not, you wont work for less, and what you may  consider good work, is just an opinion. You cant demand of others what you wont do yourself.

The other thing for new developers is finding efficiencies, once they have enough experience it will come. Its a huge learning curve.

Again you're missing the key concept: I don't work for less, I work for what I'm worth.

And I know what I'm worth because I get clients to pay me an hourly rate every day, and I get new clients to pay me the same rate every month.

If my work weren't worth what I charge, my business wouldn't be growing, it'd be shrinking.

I don't complain about the "size of my target market" like some of you who make excuses for these XP add-ons that are priced higher than they should be. Instead, i go out and expand my market, or add new ones, or whatever it takes.

So in one regard, you're correct: I can't demand someone do something I won't.

And guess what? I DON'T 😂

2 hours ago, Franz007 said:

We already told you that they are not overpriced simply because it has bad textures, knowing the systems seems to be really good. So what you consider overpriced is only your own opinion and not a general truth. If you think it is too expensive although you wish such an addon and prefer to not buy it at all, only because of that part, we are back to my first comment.  And that makes me shake my head, exactly like I was stating in my initial comment. Because it makes me question some people‘s motivation for using a sim. You confirmed that point, so let‘s close that discussion. I didn‘t want to make you change your mind but at least now I know that indeed there are such reasonnings around. Thanks.

It's objectively overpriced because it's not as good as it's direct and indirect competition.

You want to pay out in charity, it's your loss.

I will stick with the MANY developers across multiple sims who can deliver holistic quality.

10 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

It's objectively overpriced because it's not as good as it's direct and indirect competition.

You want to pay out in charity, it's your loss.

I will stick with the MANY developers across multiple sims who can deliver holistic quality.

It’s rather subjective because you have to compare every single feature to come to the conclusion that another product is objectively „better“ and also weighting the importance for you of all these features (being individual). But let’s assume it was the case. That would mean that all our IT-people/programmers are overpaid because a guy in China can do the same for way less money? I simply thing you are missing the big picture.

Edited November 7, 20241 yr by Franz007

I actually purchased the air sim D 560, because he was a new developer, I dont mind those planes and thought I would give him some feedback. I even did a review on his forum very open as there where some things that I didnt like and really went against the 95% accurate nonsense. So I wait to see what the next plane is.

On 11/5/2024 at 12:16 PM, UrgentSiesta said:

There's simply no reason to blindly stick to one platform out of a sense of charity.

The reason why I stick to one platform is that I understand what I getting from it.

• its mission
• the design
• its purpose 
• The developer goal and where they want to go with it that I can agree with

I understand the big picture and is willing to exercise patient because I understand whenever they give their interviews and talk about their road ahead, it resonate with me as an engineer. 

It is enough for me to understand what they are trying to do where I can see and feel the difference whenever I can fly any of the aircraft made for that sim and what I can expect from it. It gets demonstrated everytime I watch one of Austin video's where he shows what happens to an aircraft that I can expect and feel confident when ever I fly any aircraft made for this sim.

I know more of what I am getting where I feel it is not out of a sense of charity when I am getting something out of it from a small business that has a small reach in the marketplace and I don't mind being that small voice whenever I see something that is worth noting and do my part and speak the loudest whenever I see something worth cheering about.  

 

On 11/5/2024 at 8:50 AM, BobFS88 said:

even the most ardent supporter who was the leading individuals who once cheered inbuilds in coming to their side is now casting doubt of their future success and as far as all the wow factor from inibuild, I have not seen any from them either, more of meeting what the customer want which doesn't leave much room for surprise in a crowded market.

I just watched the inibuilds/microsoft dev presentation and there is "no" doubt about inibuilds success at this point. They are bringing the A330, Beluga, A321LR(neo), A400M as defaults to the base sim.   Not to mention they are working on their payware 380 and a 350. They have 50 or so working for them, and they have stability. While it is unfortunate that they stopped xplane development, it was a smart business/financial decision to focus on MSFS. The job of every CEO is to create growth for the company.

Also, another wise decision is that they didn't close the door completely on xplane. They mentioned, in the past, that they are leaving the door open to develop for xplane in the future.

25 minutes ago, brinx said:

Also, another wise decision is that they didn't close the door completely on xplane. They mentioned, in the past, that they are leaving the door open to develop for xplane in the future.

A wise decision indeed. They must know that jumping in bed with MS does not guarantee that they are always come out on top and leaving that door open and keeping that bridge intack maybe the one they might have to cross one day. 

Will see.

Edited November 7, 20241 yr by BobFS88

4 hours ago, BobFS88 said:

The reason why I stick to one platform is that I understand what I getting from it.

• its mission
• the design
• its purpose 
• The developer goal and where they want to go with it that I can agree with

I understand the big picture and is willing to exercise patient because I understand whenever they give their interviews and talk about their road ahead, it resonate with me as an engineer. 

It is enough for me to understand what they are trying to do where I can see and feel the difference whenever I can fly any of the aircraft made for that sim and what I can expect from it. It gets demonstrated everytime I watch one of Austin video's where he shows what happens to an aircraft that I can expect and feel confident when ever I fly any aircraft made for this sim.

I know more of what I am getting where I feel it is not out of a sense of charity when I am getting something out of it from a small business that has a small reach in the marketplace and I don't mind being that small voice whenever I see something that is worth noting and do my part and speak the loudest whenever I see something worth cheering about.  

 

I heartily agree with that sentiment! 🙂

10 hours ago, Franz007 said:

It’s rather subjective because you have to compare every single feature to come to the conclusion that another product is objectively „better“ and also weighting the importance for you of all these features (being individual). But let’s assume it was the case. That would mean that all our IT-people/programmers are overpaid because a guy in China can do the same for way less money? I simply thing you are missing the big picture.

No, one does NOT have to exhaustively compare "every single feature", especially if one of the most apparent is completely sub-par for the industry.

If what you were saying is true, then nobody would comment about graphics at all, etc., and X-Plane would not have had to do all the incredible work to deliver graphics that they have. They could just fall back on something that looks like FSX or XP 9 or whatever and call it good, "because graphics don't matter to serious simmers".

But despite what you say, a luxury product's aesthetics are vitally important to it's success in the marketplace. And in the case of a flight sim addon, good graphics increase the sense of immersion and allow for greater suspension of disbelief - which enhances the sense of satisfaction derived by the customer.

In terms of workforce compensation, you generally get what you pay for. There are significant compromises to be made when dealing with an overseas workforce. Many times it's worth it, but many times it isn't, simply because you need people who are where you are, understand your culture, are part of your team, motivated by the same drives, etc.

If it weren't so, as you say, then you would be right and there wouldn't be any IT people in first world countries. But since there are (and more and more as time goes on), you must be wrong. Again.

 

3 hours ago, brinx said:

I just watched the inibuilds/microsoft dev presentation and there is "no" doubt about inibuilds success at this point. They are bringing the A330, Beluga, A321LR(neo), A400M as defaults to the base sim.   Not to mention they are working on their payware 380 and a 350. They have 50 or so working for them, and they have stability. While it is unfortunate that they stopped xplane development, it was a smart business/financial decision to focus on MSFS. The job of every CEO is to create growth for the company.

Also, another wise decision is that they didn't close the door completely on xplane. They mentioned, in the past, that they are leaving the door open to develop for xplane in the future.

Very true.

I don't like the way iB left X-Plane, but I understand why they did it. And their stuff in MSFS has turned out rather well by all accounts, with the only notable problems being performance optimization.

2 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

No, one does NOT have to exhaustively compare "every single feature", especially if one of the most apparent is completely sub-par for the industry.

Yes you have. That's logical. If you want to compare 1:1 two different products you're gonna compare everyone of it's features. Each one. Otherwise it's only subjective. I don't even understand how someone would think otherwise.

2 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

If what you were saying is true, then nobody would comment about graphics at all, etc., and X-Plane would not have had to do all the incredible work to deliver graphics that they have. They could just fall back on something that looks like FSX or XP 9 or whatever and call it good, "because graphics don't matter to serious simmers".

You're mixing up two different things. I never said better graphics aren't good and welcomed. I said that it made me shake my head that some complain about just cockpit-textures for an overall very good addon and weight that single point as much as the systems and its flight behaviour itself, or even more! You can repeat it endlessely but that confirms my opinion about a more "arcade" approach where graphics are everything. I am not part of that group because I don't think it's the main purpose of a sim. I know that some of you guys have that approach. That was exactly the reason for my reaction. This doesn't mean that I am not happy to have better looking cockpits, no discussion.

2 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

But despite what you say, a luxury product's aesthetics are vitally important to it's success in the marketplace. And in the case of a flight sim addon, good graphics increase the sense of immersion and allow for greater suspension of disbelief - which enhances the sense of satisfaction derived by the customer.

Yes mostly because of some user-groups overweighting that part, in my opinion. That's exacly what I find sad nowadays. The expectations are just not normal anymore and people expect way too much for as little money as possible, even when an addon is already 90% complete and study-level. That's my opinion and you won't make change it. Sorry.

2 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

In terms of workforce compensation, you generally get what you pay for. There are significant compromises to be made when dealing with an overseas workforce. Many times it's worth it, but many times it isn't, simply because you need people who are where you are, understand your culture, are part of your team, motivated by the same drives, etc.

If it weren't so, as you say, then you would be right and there wouldn't be any IT people in first world countries. But since there are (and more and more as time goes on), you must be wrong. Again.

No, I am still right. The point is that many other factors are impacting such decisions (politics, economically as well like to keep good eraning-people in the own country to invest into it, rather than draining brains and letting developping everything in low-income countries). I know you have difficulties to even imagine being a developper and having to face such complains like yours (calling it charity...no comment). But just imagine one second if part of your work would be transfered to a guy working in a much cheaper country and doing the same job for half your salary. Without trying to divert just to try being right, tell me very honsetly how that would make you feel? And tell me also how you would feel if you would hear people making commenst about you being "overpaid". And no, I am not a dev myself but just cannot stand unfair comments, that's why I was trying to see it form a dev's perspective.

Here is a review of the GLG650/ER from Threshold that may be of interest to some:

https://www.thresholdx.net/review/akd650

Nice review.

"Overall, the AKD Studio GLF650 is an amazing addon. As an airliner type of person, I was really impressed by this aircraft! I enjoyed flying it and will definitely fly it again. Considering the system's depth and complexity, the price of $44.95 is fair, and in my opinion, fully worth it."
 

40 minutes ago, jcjimmy said:

Here is a review of the GLG650/ER from Threshold that may be of interest to some:

This is a really good review. It focusses on the aircraft, its real-world speciation, its historical back ground and talks about its feature to give the user the impression as to what its is like to fly this type of aircraft which gives reason this aircraft was develop it in the first place. Nice review of the workmanship of the nose gear and cockpit display. Although he acknowledges the concern that are found on the internet about the texturing, he does not leave you with the impression that it’s a deal breaker due to many more important features that will lead someone into enjoying this aircraft.

Well done.