IL2 BoS pre-ordering and autumn early limited access

[adonys]

After friday's 38'th Development Diary and the 3/7 mid-week only limited access, things got pretty heated in the discussion thread, with strong words thrown between pro and against parties, and also between users and the developers.

 

I've posted this pool to have a clearer image about how this community fills about this, and also to avoid certain questions being buried under rude pro-party's posts.

 

So, let's summarize the situation:

1) first of all, legally speaking, the developer did almost nothing wrong (though point 3) might not be so legally fine) to breach his part of the pre-ordering contract.

2) the word autumn still covers the after 15th November period, even if it is misleading and should have better been described as "very late autumn" (IMHO)

3) the early access phrase still covers a 3/7 tue-thu access, even if it is misleading and should have better been described as "early mid-week-only limited access" (IMHO)

4) there's no real reason given for the "need" of a 3/7 mid-week-only access. all answers given until now had nod justified it. even more, developer answers's wording are indicating that it was actually only a fully conscientious decision taken, with the "hoarding the players into a developer convenient time" only perceivable intent (though this mid-week-only limited testing interval is not even close to really helps the devs more than a weekend-only, or a full 24/7 testing interval)

5) there's a real concern that this 3/7 mid-week only limited testing approach will be prolonged for a far longer period than a week or two

6) even now, after the 2/7 mid-week-only limited testing was announced, the product description was not modified accordingly, a clear indication of developers predisposition towards continuing the misleading of the remaining potential pre-ordering customers

7) developers approach, an EULA waving one, is really dis concerning, as it shows their disposition to rather follow the letter, than the spirit of a legal contract

 

The developer's approach attitude at the beginning of this project was "The combat flight-sim genre now needs your attention; modest budgets do not allow the realization of everything virtual pilots dream about at once. But together we can truly revolutionize the genre and bring back a true legend to the sky!", ending up right now with this "EULA says we don't need to care about you" attitude.

 

The developer seem to not know that the product they are working on is addressed to a niche market, which can not cover a too high development costs budget, and that on a niche market like that, they are really depending on the good will of the market's population in order to be successful. Actually, they knew it (see the above citation from their pre-ordering text), but seem to have forgot it in the 3/7 mid-week-only limited EULA access.

 

Even more, the developer seem to forget the fact that they asked the community for a very high premium price, in a year before pre-ordering situation, in exchange of which they've offered only an autumn early access, 10% price cutoff and 2 small goodies. And they also seem to forget the fact that neither the 10% cutoff, neither the 2 small goodies were the ones convincing the community to accept and pay the 1 year before pre-order premium price they are asking for a software which in the normal market conditions wouldn't rise to level of its asked for premium price.

 

I would really, really like 777 and 1C to find the time to give us a good answer to why a 3/7 midweek only limited access is needed, and an estimation of how long until a full 24/7 access period can be achieved (1-7 days, 1-4 weeks, 1-6 months).

 

Thank you,

Dan Antonescu

Edited October 27, 2013 by adonys

[Rama]

It's almost the same poll as the one openned by foobar.

The minor differences don't justify a double poll

Topic closed