Paccus HAWK-First joystick with hydraulic feedback

[zoopyzook]

Originally Posted by engadin

Hi Brando, sorry but all I get is this:

'404 - Error
This is a standard message from your web browser indicating that the file trying to be accessed doesn't exist or isn't available; basically it means a dead end'.

You know what? These guys @ Paccus will also produce these joysticks versions for industrial and/or medical use. It is a plausible explanation that the high prices you provided were related to these professional sort of joysticks.

Engadin.

try a proxy to connect to it (e.g http://hidemyass.com/), you may be blocked geographically to connect to the website

[matsher]

Sadly, it does say on the website that it is 2397 Euro.

I am lefty so I support anything that caters for our breed. Sadly this interesting
piece of engineering is outta the question for about 95% of us. Even at the
stated £450 price mark... Thats sad cause I think it has great potential.

Especially with the ability to customize / interchange the sticks.
Maybe to a yoke design or a wheel attachment.

Companies like Saitek are great at ergonomics and design
but their build quality and components are so sub standard.

I'd welcome a new quality competitor however I must agree that at
that cost I'd rather buy myself a great used motorcycle than a joystick.

[brando]

Originally Posted by zoopyzook

try a proxy to connect to it (e.g http://hidemyass.com/), you may be blocked geographically to connect to the website

That sounds correct. If I had a photobucket account I would post the page to prove it, but you'll just have to trust me.

While these people may have created a remarkable joystick that 'may' get adapted to look something less like space age dildo - there's no way I (or most of the rest of us) will drop over £2,000 to find out how good it can be. Personally I think they're smoking dope

[matsher]

Here is a sceengrab of the site with prices...

They should change it if the price has gone down.
It only leads to confusion.

[T}{OR]

Originally Posted by matsher

Sadly, it does say on the website that it is 2397 Euro.

I am lefty so I support anything that caters for our breed. Sadly this interesting
piece of engineering is outta the question for about 95% of us. Even at the
stated £450 price mark... Thats sad cause I think it has great potential.

w00t?! +2000€?!

Flight sims are a niche market as it is, and this joystick no matter how good or real it feels / is - will be available to what, 0.0001% of the virtual pilots??

For this amount I'd rather buy a Warthog + Simped rudder pedals, and still have enough money to buy 2 or 3 spare ones of each!

[nearmiss]

Like a lead cloud, it just won't float.

[ElAurens]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

Like a lead cloud, it just won't float.

Much less fly...

[TeeJay82]

Looks Like a pimped microsoft sidewinder 3d

-Great concept, bad design/solutions, bad price, bad feeling bout it.

thnx for trying.. GL paccus

[engadin]

Originally Posted by matsher

Here is a sceengrab of the site with prices...

They should change it if the price has gone down.
It only leads to confusion.

Ooouuch! That prices hurt your eyes! There has to be some sort of mistake for those prices are 100% out of the sim market. I do not understand what happens. I have two MS Sidewinder FFB2 and after the G940 fiasco, I had - note the past tense - all my hopes on these guys at Paccus. But things look like a copy of my worst nightmares: not to be able to change my aged but trusty FFB2 for a nice piece of FFB HW like the Hawk. A pity. If that are the real prices, I guess there must be a ton at least of genetically altered weed involved.

Brando, it's me now the one to dive straight into a beer pool to drawn my sorrow.

Engadin.

[Hexcaliber]

Originally Posted by engadin

Mate, sincerely, you should wait a little and start your week-end fiesta on saturday, thursday is still too soon to jump into a beer pool and drawn in it .... almost.

Would you mind to point out the actual url where your out-of-this-world prices are supposed to show up?

Last year - 2010 - prices were €390 for the Hawk (FFB) and €280 for the Falcon (no FFB). [http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t.../m/2661077438]

I am afraid exchange rates haven't fluctuated so much since then. Get a second look on your source of information, please.

Engadin.

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