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Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:35 pmby scaber
Well I like ORBX FTX products and so far have them all and have been very satisfied with what I think is very good value for money. For about the price of one new aircraft I get lots of new territory to explore. In fact I'm not sure that I have enough of years left to explore what I already have! Yes, there are some mistakes and omission (found that Akaroa is missing the other day!) but these do get corrected over time, and even with these errors it is still most enjoyable.
If you look at it from the perspective of bang for your bucks then you can't go past it. Yes, it sounds like I'm a fan boi but where else can I get such a wide coverage to a good standard from one purchase. I know there is lots of good freeware available but having to hunt it down and install it all has got to being too tedious for me!
Not so sure about FTX Global where the price is a bit out of my range! However, it seems to be a big improvement on the default so if the readies become available I may be a starter.
Anyway, if this is World Domination then bring it on I say, other developers will continue to make good products and I'm sure that many will be making them compatible with ORBX; those that don't will be competing for a different group of customers much as some people today are still producing stuff for FS2009 and being successful in that market.
As the old proverb says: "Lets live and let live" - ie Run your own life the way you want to, and let others do the same; be tolerant of our differences.
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Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:27 amby IslandBoy77
scaber wrote:As the old proverb says: "Lets live and let live" - ie Run your own life the way you want to, and let others do the same; be tolerant of our differences.
One small problem with that axiom: what if the "others" want to change the way you live? And, what if the way you want to live your life conflicts with how others want to live theirs? Fact is, humans aren't tolerant of one another - we like our lives the way we like them. I've noted that "tolerant" people are only tolerant of those who think the way they do. There are all sorts of "gotchas" to "big players" like Orbx muscling in to a very small market like NZ - it will be interesting to have this conversation again in 2 years and see whether the overall long-term result for NZ is positive or negative. My money is on negative, judging by how things have worked out in other industries when a big player moves into a niche area...
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Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:57 amby toprob
I do think that things will be a lot different in a couple of years, but I don't think it has much to do with Orbx. Over the last couple of years flightsim had been steadily dying, and it's really only the likes of Orbx who are extending it's life at the moment. Really, flightsim as we know it was always based on Microsoft's interest in this quirky hobby, combined with a huge PC user base. Microsoft have quit now, and PCs are on the way out, so the only future it has is folks like us looking back on the good old days.
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