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Originally Posted by Chivas
zapatista
39 dollars isn't full sim price...I paid alot more for IL-2, OFF, CFS, and FSX, etc
Chivas
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we resolved that before in this same thread chivas, RoF is being sold as a full price normal game, and is roughly equal in price to most other flightsims.
have a look at these prices from one of the RoF "officially recommended sales points" in north america (
http://www.fspilotshop.com/index.php...a5cd2c1a262cc3)
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Condor: The Competition Soaring Sim $49.95
DCS: Black Shark $49.95
Falcon 4: Allied Force $29.95
Flight Simulator X (FSX) Gold Edition $39.95
Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War $44.95
X-Plane 9 (PC) $49.95
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Originally Posted by Chivas
I guess you missed "Rise of Flight Vision Statement" that indicates that ROF was released early to generate funds to continue development of the sim. All aspects of the sim will be improved over the life of the sim.
Chivas
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now that is a very different perspective, and not one that is openly recognised by the hysterical RoF fanboys that still keep pretending everything is perfect with RoF and whom with a cultish zeal keep trying to ignore all problems with it.
you and some other keen flightsimmers might see that as good enough reason to send the RoF devellopers some pocket money, and hope that enough will trickle in to keep them going a little while longer. this is of course presuming the RoF folks will actually use that breathing time to fix the main glaring current problems with it, rather then mainly work on other "for sale" addons or a next product of the same poor quality ( as i postulated could well be the case in starting this thread by indicating they are already working on a ww2 sim). your decision to support this for-sale-beta is a decision you are making on trust and hope, not based on fact or an obligation or garantee that RoF will ever have its main problems fixed, or that if they flop you will even still be able to play the game in its current form.
and RoF doesnt openly state that "pay us to finish this beta, this is not a full game" at the current sales points for their product either, and neither is it clearly labled on the product box when you look at the item ion the shop shelf, or on a website that sells it.
does it mean there are no positives in RoF, yes there are a couple
so should the average flightsimmer support RoF right now by buying it and seeing their $$$ payment as a virtual donation to the RoF team in the hope they will as a priority address its most glaring current problems ? no not in my opinion. one of the main reasons is that when the RoF project flops you will be left with absolutely nothing (your game wont even work in its flawed current form), and the fiasco itself will again give future flightsim ventures a reduced chance to get decent $$ backing for any similar products
there are some solutions to this, but looking at how RoF managed the whole project it is unlikely they can make the mental leap required to address those (so far we have had misleading information during devellopment, bait and switch marketing, taking the worst sales aspects from several game genres to solely focus on revenue income, and not having a core quality product at release time, premature release of an unfinished beta pretending it is a full product, not addressing the main complaints etc). there is no doubt some of the game FM DM and grafix people have talent, but they have been shafted by thier own marketing greaseballs, and the way it stands right now it is going the way of the dodo's (and extinct NZ flightless bird).