They do have control over the release. They can tell the client it is not ready and an early release will cause rage amongst your customers.
My point is Asobo must have thought the product was fine to put their reputation on the line and not say it should be delayed. I donāt think they did enought testing.
For instance, if I only have 10 minutes or 20 minutes to fly I lke the airliner landing challenges. The Airbus ones are broken still 6 months later. You start unstabilized, in IMC, in a stall with engines flamed out, 6 nm from final. You are almost going into a flat stall. I bet 90% of people crash the plane.
Just yesterday I flew the Calgary airbus landing challenge and it is still busted like this 6 months later.
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I donāt think it was fraud. They promised an unrealistic release date and thought the product would fly (pun intended).
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Asobo is paid to develop. MS owns the code. When MS says jump Asobo says how high. Plain and simple. Asobo may make suggestions to MS but thatās all they are. Asobo does what their customer (MS) wants.
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I hope Asobo makes millions on patches and updates.
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Itās possible Asobo did tell Microsoft that, but in the end, Microsoft is the boss, they control the release date not Asobo.
Asobo can say itās not ready, but Microsoft can just release it anyways since they set the release date.
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I think, in general, the video game industry are showing a trend where they use early adopters as testers, using feedback to tailor features to the taste of the market, but perhaps also cynically to gather data to optimise their product.
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More massive disappointment than rage.
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Typically, IMO, whenever people are duped they really refuse to see it because the just canāt believe that another human would be so deceitful. In my country the law says no matter what you sign ,be it waivers, contracts or other agreements you cannot sign away certain rights. So even though you sign a sold as is contract, that thing better work as described. They could have several releases. one where it is not ready for prime time and people are invited free of chartge to participate in a beta program. When the piece is complete, that it works as described, then the early testers get it at a discount and those of us that do not want to be involved in beta have to pay the full price. Butā¦it better work AS DESCRIBED.
I agree, we do not have any proof of anything. I had a Chevy once that rusted out early and had too many mechanical problems from Day one of itās existence. I have never bought another GM product in over 40 years. I hate giving incompetent people money that I earned by being honest.
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this is true, in some people
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Everyone has different expectations in life. Some may always feel they get the short end of the stick while others are happily living their Pollyanna life without a care in the world. Most of us are somewhere in between. I paid my money and am quite happy with the way the sim is progressing. It doesnāt really matter to me now what happened a few months ago at release.
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Iām not happy itās progressing at all. They should be fixing the basics before progressing. Secondly I will never be duped, again that is. Learned my $200 lesson in disappointment.
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To be very clear, it was NOT Asobo who made that call, it was not even Jorg. The call to go for launch came from higher up and nobody had the power to push back on it.
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Heh I thought naming it 2024 was their undoing to begin with. Should have been FS2026. They barely got it out in 2024 as it was. They would have had a solid year with all the next gen hardware just released. The 100gb promise was the other big mistake.
Weāve just about all caught up to specs to properly run 2020, now weāre back with the new one and again code is bashing its head into new hardware in an un-optimized and underutilized way.
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phutyoo: Exactly what I think!