Yeah... it was 100% unadulterated poo when compared to true sims. :D I will say, though, that it did do everything it said it would and was a fairly bug free experience... not bad for an arcade game really.

Yeah it wil act as a warning ok, it will just warn everyone involved including developers that flight sims are an extremely volatile area and nobody will ever bother with them again.....hows that for a learning experience.

since when was the way to making something succeed was to berrate it mercilessly? instead of perhaps trying some encouragement.

I'll take yours instead!:mrgreen:

Not really at this point....

For example, there is no way to save any of the campaign progress. It does not seem to be an option or there is a bug and I have no option to save progress.

That is the kind of thing they need to fix to make it a game. Right now, it seems very cobbled together and incomplete.

Almost like somebody goofed off or concentrated on some concept that did not work out and then at the last minute tried to put something together to meet a deadline.

I like the potential and hope it works out. If CloD does come together and work as it should, I look forward to the whole series. I think the future of the series though rides on it. Otherwise, I recognize that hope dies last and CloD becomes a coaster for my glass of scotch.

Again, a fair point, but how about the hobby disappearing because the dev team can't do it properly? I'm sure they're not sat on the edge of their seats desperate for encouragement and approval.... if anything it seems they are courting the complete opposite.

I know the hobby is in danger.... but, then again, as the world becomes more moronic and driven by market forces alone, show me a hobby of any worth that isn't dying. There are many factors, that I won't go into here, for why that is happening on a worldwide scale and I'm fairly sure disgruntled customers on an obscure forum are not one of them :D

They would have my full support if they just stopped giving updates that have a whiff of the Nigerian Email Scam about them! Cut the promises and "two weeks", "Soon", "In a few days" rubbish... that is what is causing all the ill will! Sure... there are those out there who don't appreciate just how much work it takes/will take, how small the team is etc but that is life!

The weekly updates were 'demanded' by the impatient community who don't seem to have anything else in their lives but the F5 key.

So if you are ever faced with watching something you hold dear slowly dying right in front of you the best course of action would be to slap it round the face and constantly remind it it is failing at survival?

The weekly updates are a good opportunity for the developers to interact with their customer base. Interact with us is now vital to resolve the lack of trust given by the problems, to demonstrate as well as possible that they are working in the right direction. The fact that they don't use it well is a shame.

Maybe.. depends what mood I was in :D (Joke!)

Even the demands for updates.... at least that shows that the customer base are still passionate about their hobby! When the demanding stops..... then we really are in trouble!

Yet everytime they do interact with us they just get slammed for making excuses.

Perhaps.....I just wish there was more 'dignity' that the begging and demanding.