Fall in! Attention! - What about..

[adonys]

Things are looking rough around here.

What happened yesterday, on top of everything else, left us all with a bitter taste in our mouths. What trust can you put anymore into a company which, even considering the disastrous state their product still is in one-year-and-a-half after its release, and even considering their almost free-fall business state, is not able to fulfill a simple promise they themselves made, like answering some questions at a given date & time, and not even make a statement about why are they late with the answers?!!

These days consumers are treated like crap. and are only looked at some sort of big dumb cash-stuffed wallets ready to throw out their money at any crap a software developer throws at them, while the investors are the ones in control of everything.

Why not trade places then?

We love this games genre, WWII combat flight simulation, and it seems MG is dropping the ball and there's no other real alternative left, or over the horizon.

Why not create one ourselves?

Moaning about a faulty product from a consumer's posture won't give us anything, and taking the only action available to get their attention would be a class suit against them, which will bury our product dead for sure.

I think it is the time for us to step in, or forever shut our mouths about it.

It seems that no one from the current WWII combat flight games is willing to hear us and give us what we need and look for.

Why not look for someone to hire and do the damn job we want to be done?!!

Most of us are over 30s, with some money stability and affording all sort of things like i7s, 680's, Warthogs and God knows what sort of other expensive shiny hardware floating around these days. I think we can afford to put some money down on the table to build a future for our dear hobby.

Let's do a Kickstarter, or Elance, "WWII combat flight simulation community" project, gather all the money we want to invest in our hobby then make a hire proposal to Gaijin, or 777, or whatever else decent combat flight game engine is floating around these days, to add a (real) WWII simulation & SDK part to their engine?!!

If our numbers are around 2000 (we must be more, but let's assume this number as the part of us willing to do something about it. and having some media attention we might attract even outside WWII combat flight community interests), each donating 500 euro (a new 680 card price, or a warthog + a trackir) we'll gather 1 million euro. Even if only donating 100 each, we'll end up having 200k, a sum large enough to support 5k x 40 programmer months of work (ie 5k x 4 people x 10 months). A sum large enough to bend the will an attract the interest of one of them and then have some things our way, with investors control power.. wouldn't you think?

Heck, we could even hire MG to do the job while having the development process (code, builds, milestones, paychecks) in our control.

Imagine us being their bosses.. Wouldn't that be a day worth living for?!!

Dan Antonescu