dexspan80

Maybe ORBX has some kind of "The Shining"-effect on its employees :Thinking: . Makes good people go craazyyyy.

Probably true. I hope being in cahoots with ORBX does not tarnish a good community of hard working freeware developers. From the looks of it not all OZx developers were happy coming under the ORBX brand again. Good thing is that they did not merge the forums with ORBX. It's just strange to see this kind of juxtaposition; fun and relaxing niche hobby meets strict corporate policies.

Gotta say this was an interesting thread to read. I've been out of simming for a couple of years and lately been starting to catch up what's been going on in this hobby. I've never bought any ORBX products, because from the start, I have had sort of a negative image about the company, just by judging their forums and how certain people have interacted there with their customers. Actually it's not very surprising that it has come to this. What is more shocking, is to find out that OZx seems to be going the same way. I've had huge respect towards that community, and how nice and diplomatic the climate has always been there. But the way ORBX is moderating their forums is laughable. The high-hat attitude is just plain silly. Just for a comparison's sake I mention Aerosoft, which is far bigger company and has wider range of quality products, and still they can take criticism very well and their forums are still very demographic place to discuss and the big boss Mathijs seems to be a reasonable fella. And after my simming break it is also sad to see some of my favorite developers have hopped aboard the ORBX wagon. I would like to support those guys but since they are on the dark side, I won't. And that one scenery that could have been The Emma Field is now merely a Cushman Meadow. But this thread is really nice and discussion on it is healthy, and it already has 18,648 views :Just Kidding: