Give less money to a dev that doesn't respect their customers and goes out of their way to be jerks or give more money to a dev that hasn't spoken down on their customer base (yet, potentially) and is delivering something that should be free (or actually cheap) for free? Easy choice for me.
After all of this I've learned from PMDG that:
- Pirates don't get punished but their users get held at ransom to unlock their planes they already bought
- They can suspend access to the software you purchased for "defamatory behavior"
- Should take the "be quiet" route instead of saying something then being ashamed of it brought up later
I mean take this as an example: https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-forum/general-discussion-news-and-announcements/380549-what-stone-did-these-folks-hide-under?p=380783#post380783
Maybe they're problematic comments because people took a look at how much work you did to make it work in the new sim and it's on the level of a free update when other devs are also improving their planes when moving to the new sim but are actually free? It's actually disappointing because for $10, I would've went for it but after all of this they don't deserve my money. It should've been a slam dunk win for them but they fumbled it somehow.
Anyways, Rob already has his Falcon so he definitely doesn't need my money. I'll give it to iFly for their Max and haven't regretted giving it to Fenix or Just Flight after the massive level of support and improvements they've given...for free.