The Crystal Ball

[FS~Phat]

@JG52Uther
Agreed.. So... for those that worship RoF and think it can do no wrong, you had better think again in terms of it's longevity... RoF is a wonderful game and I love it enough to have bought all the expansions, and I hope it continues long into the future, but... one thing is clear, the constant complaining and whining doesnt do anything but damage this fragile genre of gaming for everyone.

So please, I ask all of you to just try and behave like people that enjoy this genre and enjoy helping others to discover and enjoy this wonderful niche world of flight simulation. Otherwise we may lose investor and publisher support for any decent flight simulations in the future.

As my Grandmother used to say, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all!"

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Originally Posted by FS~Phat

@JG52Uther
RoF is a wonderful game and I love it enough to have bought all the expansions, and I hope it continues long into the future, but... one thing is clear, the constant complaining and whining doesn't do anything but damage this fragile genre of gaming for everyone.

Bingo!

I have all but one of the RoF expansions.. and many of the upgrades for each plane..

But RoF is not the 1st sim, nor the last that I have supported with my $

Off the top of my head I can only think of a handful of sims that I have NOT bought over the past 20 years of flight simming

Why?

Because I realize that flight simming is the red headed step child of gaming

Any company that sets out to make a flight sim does so against the advice of the marketing departments!

Which means they do it because they themselves love flight sims

But love does not put food on the table

So I see my small $50 per game payout as my way of supporting flight sim community as a whole..

In the hopes that it will not die off and these sim makers are NOT forced to go make 'other' games

Long story short, flight sim games need our support good or bad. With that said, IMHO everyone should view a new flight sim not as an investment, but as a gambler views a roulette table. You lay your $50 dollars down and spin the wheel. Some times you win, some times you loose. And if you hesitate at any moment while plunking down your $50, that is your inner voice telling you that this flight sim HOBBY of yours is too expensive for you in the first place. That is to say if your budget is such that your livelihood depends on the success of a flight sim game.. You really need to look in the mirror and re-evaluate your priorities in life.