Please fix out the game we paid for before adding content. If the game crashes, it doesn’t matter how many airports and planes there are. Use all resources for bug fixing and testing. Forget about new content while the game is broken. Focus on fixes.
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Are you sure it is the same people fixing bugs as are working on the content?
At the shop the tire guy is trained to change tires and the oil guy is trained to change the oil. Just because there are a lot of oil changes to do, doesn’t mean the tire guy leaves his customers sit and start doing something he doesn’t know how to do.
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I’m talking about priorities and where the money will go. Let them pay overtime to those who work on mistakes. Their funding is probably limited, otherwise they would not have rushed to release such a low-quality product, but would have spent another year or two to debug everything.
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I think, having read the patch notes, they are doing both. That seems to me quite reasonable.
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I tend to agree. Even if they are separate teams, it just doesn’t put off a good optic to have resources not working on resolving the bugs. Way too many bugs for a production flight sim. All hands should be on deck working issues.
To be fair though, it was free. It would really, really look bad if they were working on content that will be behind a paywall.
And by the way, it’s Asobo, not Osobo. 
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Assign the content people to testing then. The product has a quality problem. Even the vaunted scenery is laughable in places.
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Thanks for correcting the name of the studio.
I completely agree with you, the team should focus only on leaving the base program running without errors as it produces a very high level of frustration and anger in the user that HUGE patches continue to appear for many of us and that it still does not work well what it should work fine.
It is not only a matter of money resources, it is a matter of common sense.
After the first joy seeing update to version 1.9.3.0 last night, I stopped downloading overnight and only to find that the ■■■■ 0.1.63 bigfiles patch keeps rebooting over and over and over again.
I don’t care about new settings, I don’t know who they’re competing against, but adding touristic settings while we can’t even use the simulator … doesn’t make sense to me.
I am sure that many will rise up in anger today over the same issue, so I support your comment.
Sorry for the syntax, it’s google translation, I don’t speak English.
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They’re doing both at the same time, and from what I’ve seen, they have separate internal teams for world updates and bug fixes. Just because they release content doesn’t mean that people aren’t still working on fixes. This update, besided the content, also included a fairly long list of bug fixes, but I don’t think most people bothered to look at it. I don’t know of any software dev team of more than 3 people that completely stops any one process just to focus on another.
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I agree whoever it is should fix the basic controls needed to fly the aircraft. However they are fixing issues as we have seen and I am good with improvements of airports. I know how a software team works so it just takes time. I like the King Air, but it has no way to put in a flight plan, so I just another aircraft, the 350i will get fixed someday. The Beechcraft G58 is pretty stable, while others have issues with it. We have a million people with a million setups. So it take time. Retail software is the hardest software to develop, I know been there. Luckily we those out there making temp mods we can use to get around the issues until they are fixed.
When reporting bugs, there is a comment section what is wrong. The more detail the better. Put steps how to repeat it. Make sure you can repeat it. Maybe have others try the same. Random bugs are hard and take the longest to fix, we have a few of those, don’t we. I wish that with each patch, the percentage of things that broke because of the patch goes down and the application is more useable.
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how do I upvote this?
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Japan was nice and all, but I absolutely agree.
Fix the bugs, and bring on the basic functionality. Scenery can wait.
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I have to agree fix the bugs before adding new content. The trees have been reported 100 times still the same. They can’t be listening I have sent 3 reports as an Alpha tester and two as a paying customer falls on deaf ears. “Here is hoping for a change?”
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I would agree.
It doesn’t matter whether the team is the same or not. Stability must be first.
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I agree. I am not interested with a Japan or Fuji etc. I am interested in better sim experience WITHOUT DOWNGRADING THE VISUALS.
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Okay scenery designers, please quit designing scenery and dive into that engine code! Come on! How do you mean you don’t know C++?
Or maybe they should fire all artists and hire more programmers. And when the bugs are fixed they just hire them again! Because more programmers mean the bugs get fixed faster? /s
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I understand the sentiment but in this last patch the scenery itself got way worse too! There’s gigantic buildings all over the place now. There is no way that this was tested by any sort of QA team.
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I would like to vote this up…but there is no voting button.
I have ‘liked’ your post instead but sadly, this thread will not be read by the developers as there is no voting facility.
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Let’s look at a metaphor. “Hi, sir, here is your delivery pizza, we left uncooked chicken on top so you’ll get food poisoning if you eat it, but don’t worry, at least we told you first!”
On this forum are dozens of rational people like yourself who say, “Hey, they’re working on these things in parallel.” And you know what? You’re probably right. Just like the pizza place probably has someone making pizzas and someone cooking them, probably in parallel.
So would you defend the pizza chain continuing to deliver poison pizzas the same way?
The whole point those of us complaining are trying to make is that while it’s clear they are doing both scenery/world updates and bug patching, it’s even clearer that this strategy isn’t working.
We don’t work at Asobo. We can’t know their internal workings. But we can demand some sort of strategy change, because we are paying customers. Does that mean shuffling devs around to QA? Hiring more testers? Public beta builds? Who knows. But to throw up our hands like “guys they’re working on it” is lazy and unhelpful.
I just want my pizza without poison chicken. If that includes three less pieces of chicken, so be it.
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