I think I'll wait for the A2A AccuSim Mustangs
Rgr, that!
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Warbirdsim Mustangs For FSX!
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Rgr, that!
I feel I must mention this.
First the ridiculous wait over you trying to make it impossible to register, and now a 75 USD package? Are you trying to have this product fail? You already lost a lot of customers with your insane anti piracy measures/wait, and now you're trying to scare them all off with a crazy price? I saw this thread right when you first posted it and I thought to myself "meh I will wait till I get back from work to see what other people think before I even consider buying it." Yet I come back and not a single person in this thread has bought it for me to base an opinion off of. What is wrong here??? I wonder...
First the ridiculous wait over you trying to make it impossible to register, and now a 75 USD package? Are you trying to have this product fail? You already lost a lot of customers with your insane anti piracy measures/wait, and now you're trying to scare them all off with a crazy price? I saw this thread right when you first posted it and I thought to myself "meh I will wait till I get back from work to see what other people think before I even consider buying it." Yet I come back and not a single person in this thread has bought it for me to base an opinion off of. What is wrong here??? I wonder...
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Slug Flyer
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This will only encourage piracy of the product, I fear. Not that it justifies it, of course, but I suspect now at least a few people who would have bit the bullet and shelled out, say, $30 will now find that their ethics are a bit more flexible.
I thinks only the "elite" are going to fly this one. oh ye and maybe a few pitares. Hopefully not seeing they have killer security.
Like I said. I'll have to wait for A2A. Petty really. :sigh:
Ben
SpaceWeevil
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£45 for 10 models is good value as long as you really want all ten! Unfortunately the differences (paints besides) beween the 'B' and 'C' are so small as to make it not worth paying this much for a pack with both. I'll certainly reconsider if WBS choose to release the individual versions like they did with FS9 but for now I'll pass. What a shame, this would have been the FSX event of the year for me.
WarBert
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Good day all,
With regard price, It is nine months since the FS9 launch.
I don't really think that a £2.96 increase over the FS9 product for 2 additional aircraft and all of the related work involved to enhance the whole package and add security, which may seem a pain for you the end user, but is essential to our survival. You can thank the pirates for that.
The Boxed product is more of an increase due to addtional production and postage and packing costs.
We are more than pleased with what we have now and we hope that you do 'take the plunge' as Jankees put it!
Albert
www.warbirdsim.com
With regard price, It is nine months since the FS9 launch.
I don't really think that a £2.96 increase over the FS9 product for 2 additional aircraft and all of the related work involved to enhance the whole package and add security, which may seem a pain for you the end user, but is essential to our survival. You can thank the pirates for that.
The Boxed product is more of an increase due to addtional production and postage and packing costs.
We are more than pleased with what we have now and we hope that you do 'take the plunge' as Jankees put it!
Albert
www.warbirdsim.com
Now I can see why I loved the good old days when Alphasim brought out 2-3 models a month for less than 20 dollars.
This may be fantastic modelling, but the cost is beyond belief. I suggest they should keep the boxed price as it is, but sell the DL models at 20 dollars each as single models. I would be happy to buy the Mustang Mk 111 for 20 dollars. It would also help on the DL side, as getting big files on my slow connection is becoming harder and harder.
Just my 'two cents worth'!!
What do you guys think???
This may be fantastic modelling, but the cost is beyond belief. I suggest they should keep the boxed price as it is, but sell the DL models at 20 dollars each as single models. I would be happy to buy the Mustang Mk 111 for 20 dollars. It would also help on the DL side, as getting big files on my slow connection is becoming harder and harder.
Just my 'two cents worth'!!
What do you guys think???
Never I will. I understand it's pretty much a one man project but if that's the case then maybe you're in the wrong business and we're in the wrong hobby. For that price I can buy a full new game and one that has been released for a while.
Games like ARMA2 keep me happy for a good 15-20 hours a week so why would I bother with something expensive like this. Again I know you relate the price to the many hours put into this product and I can see from the screenies that it's a fine product really. Maybe the market is too small then. Even if I had the money right now I wouldn't pay for it, this is simply going in against what I believe is fair pricing towards the customer.
No worries though, as everyone always says I have a choice and mine has been made. I'm not whining, just find it a pity I can't get this cuz it looks great.
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gajit
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Im going to wait as the price is bound to drop eventually
That only works when you’re selling stuff to the government… In a normal economy, you would lower prices if you wanted to increase sales. Raising prices reduces sales, see? And you can’t “make up for” the expected drop in sales, for whatever reason, by jacking up the price per unit, as one developer here stated he had to do. I can thank pirates for the price? And I also must thank them for the insane hassle I have to go through to install it? Well, I won’t be thanking them, thank you, and I guess I won’t be buying the plane either. It looks like a beautiful model too...
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gajit
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Very well put PRB 
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Z-PurpleBubble
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45£???
I'm afraid I have to agree with PRB and the rest of the people on the pricing thing.
When an addon costs more than a whole sim (not FSX), there is something wrong.
With these prices, even with the "insane security measures", you are driving your creation into the hands of pirates.
And you're trying to make us pay for that. Something's not right here.
I'm afraid I have to agree with PRB and the rest of the people on the pricing thing.
When an addon costs more than a whole sim (not FSX), there is something wrong.
With these prices, even with the "insane security measures", you are driving your creation into the hands of pirates.
And you're trying to make us pay for that. Something's not right here.
I wonder if the whole payware saga is getting out of hand.
If all these developers went back to doing it as a hobby, like Tim Piglet Conrad and Dave Garwood we would not have pirates
and we would all and would all enjoy what brought most of us into this hobby, a nice friendly and cheap way of passing the time.
FACT....you cannot make enough money to make a living out of MSFS add-ons whatever the price.
FACT....Piracy is here to stay (in the medium to short term), right or wrong.
With the money we saved we could buy all the latest hardware that would give us what we really want! Super detailed and super smooth flight simming! Not 'stuttering' PC's loaded with expensive add-ons we get fed up waiting for the bugs (that should have been sorted first) to be fixed!
I am not directing this last 'rant' at this developer, his FS9 Mustang was superb, but at the state of the hobby (in FSX in particular) as I find it today.
The price of this add-on made me question 'What is going on', that's all!
If all these developers went back to doing it as a hobby, like Tim Piglet Conrad and Dave Garwood we would not have pirates
and we would all and would all enjoy what brought most of us into this hobby, a nice friendly and cheap way of passing the time. FACT....you cannot make enough money to make a living out of MSFS add-ons whatever the price.
FACT....Piracy is here to stay (in the medium to short term), right or wrong.
With the money we saved we could buy all the latest hardware that would give us what we really want! Super detailed and super smooth flight simming! Not 'stuttering' PC's loaded with expensive add-ons we get fed up waiting for the bugs (that should have been sorted first
) to be fixed!I am not directing this last 'rant' at this developer, his FS9 Mustang was superb, but at the state of the hobby (in FSX in particular) as I find it today.
The price of this add-on made me question 'What is going on', that's all!
JorisVandenBerghe
Charter Member 2010
I'm afraid I did not pay enough attention during my economics classes during the last year, but I do know that of some products, you can raise or lower the price ridiculously high, and people will buy it anyway, whether it's an expensive or a cheap product.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity_(economics)
Wait and see or this is applicable to the Warbirdsim Mustangs for FSX...
The Warbirdsim ponies look excellent, but I assume there isn't a P-51B with Malcolm hood included, is there ?
Magnificent work however, good job!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity_(economics)
Wait and see or this is applicable to the Warbirdsim Mustangs for FSX...
The Warbirdsim ponies look excellent, but I assume there isn't a P-51B with Malcolm hood included, is there ?
Magnificent work however, good job!
As someone else stated, I would gladly pay a reasonable price for individual aircraft (Princess Elizabeth and the Malcolm Hood model), but not having the choice of doing this just makes it impossible for me to justify laying out that much $$ for 10 planes, most of which I would never fly anyway. As for the security measures, mixed emotions on that one. I hope they do work for you and do not cause endless and needless frustration for those that do purchase, but ultimately, they probably will end up being pirated at some point, sadly.
I wish you much success in your marketing plans, but I'm afraid you've left out a big part of the simulation community by not offering several options in aircraft selection.
Darrell
Okay, I'm maybe going to ruffle some feathers here, but I have to ask: why is it that whenever a developer prices his product in the high-end region we have to go through all these "I'm not gonna buy it because it costs too much and ... (insert reason for not buying)"-posts again?
It's really simple in my book: a developer offers me his/her product at a certain price (s)he thinks is fitting for his/her product. I can either say "yes" or "no" to that offer. We make those kind of decisions everyday if we e.g. go to the supermarket. However, I do not feel the need to post or discuss my decision in a forum. What's the point? I respect each posters' decision to not buy (for whatever reason), but each and everyone of you makes a personal decision that has no further significance to the rest of the world. Too expensive? Just say to yourself "Thanks, but this one's not for me", leave it at that and move on.
I'm sorry if I sound harsh or if I have offended anyone. That's not my intention. But I get sooo tired of these kind of posts that we've been through hundreds of times already.
It's really simple in my book: a developer offers me his/her product at a certain price (s)he thinks is fitting for his/her product. I can either say "yes" or "no" to that offer. We make those kind of decisions everyday if we e.g. go to the supermarket. However, I do not feel the need to post or discuss my decision in a forum. What's the point? I respect each posters' decision to not buy (for whatever reason), but each and everyone of you makes a personal decision that has no further significance to the rest of the world. Too expensive? Just say to yourself "Thanks, but this one's not for me", leave it at that and move on.
I'm sorry if I sound harsh or if I have offended anyone. That's not my intention. But I get sooo tired of these kind of posts that we've been through hundreds of times already.
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