Well, for all the mods and CMs here, my previous statements only referred to the fact that we don’t have any type of communication, nor merely saying that yes, it will be postponed.
We recognize that the team that works as a whole at MSFS has a great openness with the community and a good level of transparency. Unfortunately, when frustration is created, the effect reverberates in this way.
Eventually, we have to understand a little on both sides, obviously there was something unforeseen. However, consumers have the right to complain (as long as it’s polite, of course) and I think some here just wanted information about… I find it strange that some unfortunately decided to attack AH without even having seen the final product.
I just wanted to make this position clear and not sound like a mere complainer
What I don’t understand is it seems people are free to bash developers and MS staff for their decisions as long as the comments are directed at an entity rather than a member, but if the community tries to self moderate they get chastised for speaking against another members, even while developers and MS staff are also members here, just like everyone else. It’s kind of a sad deal and I suppose there’s no real solution other than staff trying to be the arbiter of negativity and clamping down on it, but that’s no fun either.
I’m a volunteer mod, a corporate wage slave during the day, and now I’m also on the QA team at a studio producing content for MSFS, both in-house and commissioned by Microsoft. And no, I have no idea why the 707 wasn’t released today. I’m here to talk about the reaction to that. And yes, even the CMs themselves may not know.
Having spent some time behind the curtain, delays happen for a variety of reasons. Those who work in the software development industry know those points well, they live it everyday. Most of the reasons turn out mundane. When you’re working on a tight timeline to deliver a product, that’s how it is - the biggest of efforts can and are stymied, especially if you’re making sure it’s the best product it can be. If this was easy, everyone would be doing it. That’s not a boast, it’s just a fact.
The bottom line though is no one was harmed by this delay of DLC. Really. Some of the reactions, while understandable and driven by a passion for the hobby or topic, have also reached very extreme points in other cases. The product will come. It won’t matter whether the explanation comes today, tomorrow or next Tuesday. There’s been a delay, more news forthcoming. We’ll all hear about next week.
I find it really bizarre how we have suddenly gone from “the 707 will be out in July” to “the 707 will be out after MSFS 2024 is released” on the supposed day of release, and while I’d like to believe this is to massively improve the product and get it to a much more realistic standard, I’m really finding it hard to expect that from AH. I would love to be proven wrong though.
I must say, it feels unprecedented to go from “It’s release day” to “maybe in six more months?”
I appreciate the focus on a quality release. But there must have been a serious disconnect between what was being told to MS to what was actually delivered for release. I can’t explain a six month push any other way.
I’d certainly hope that we’re going to get our worth out of such a delay but I still feel like we’re not going to. I’m not even sure AH is capable of making it up to snuff. It would be nice to see a working Carousel INS on release but unless they get some big brained individuals from for example Working Title to contribute to it, I don’t expect anything more than a glorified GPS who’s operation is more tedious.
This sounds like missing features or poor 3D models/texturing and not just bugs. And the fact that it will likely take months to fix backs that up.
I’m a software developer, I have deadlines, I meet those deadlines unless the client makes functionality/design changes (very common). But in this case, the client, MSFS/Asobo, would not be making last minute changes, the design and functionality should have been frozen. AH should be able to deliver on time. Bug fixes come after.
