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The Staff of SOH
A Message to Developers
- Thread starter jmig
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Gregory Paul
Charter Member
Gentlemen and Ladies,
I understand the rock and hard place you find yourself caught between. On one hand you have low life scum posting your hard earned work on sites where anyone can steal it from you. Then on the other hand you have loyal customers who get caught in the middle, as you attempt to protect your work.
I write to you as a friend and loyal customer. I am only one individual, so I can only speak for myself. However, unless I miss my guess, I am one of the vocal customers who says what the silent majority doesn't always say.
I have about had it up to my eyeballs with online installers that require registry modifications and are a pain in the a$$ to reinstall. I have about decided that from now on I will NOT buy any add-on that requires me to have an internet connection and requires me to jump through hoops to get something I bought to work.
Call me arrogant, call me old fashion, call me unreasonable, or anything else you wish. I promise it will roll off my back like water off a ducks. However, as a consummer who gladly pays $40-$50 and $60 for something I want, I expect a couple of things from you.
One is should work reasonably well and do what the standard currently is in FSX. To be honest, I have found only one airplane and one add-on airbase that did not meet the requirements of this category. You guys are to be complemented on the high quality and high value add ons you have been offering us, the consumer.
The other requirement is that is should be easy to install the first time and every six months later when FSX does its thing and rolls over on it's back due to overload.
It is here where some of you are falling short. Most do very well. It is the few that I plan on boycotting, so long as you continue to make reinstalling difficult for me.
Case in point: I have been reloading FSX for the umteen time. I decided to leave off a lot of planes I don't fly anyway. There is one WWII fighter that is a beautiful plane and a joy to fly. It uses one of these complicated protection schemes operated by another company.
Before formatting my hard drive, I saved FSX in its entirety. Because I only fly one or two liveries of any aircraft, I have modified all of the cfg files. So, I merely dragged the airplanes over into the new FSX airplane folder. To test them I did a brief flight in each different model.
Low and behold, when it came to this airplane, I had no VC. So, I dragged out the install file, looked up the S/N, key, etc and attempted to install.
The installation folder went so far and then stopped and told me it had disconnected from the server. I tried compatibility steps, turning the firewall off and on, checking its settings. An hour later I was no closer to flying.
I then went to the developer's forum and posted my problem. This morning someone replies and asks me to contact the support of the other company. The one who handles the purchasing. So I email them.
A few hours later I get a reply asking me to make sure I am on-line and my firewall is not blocking them. I reply back, saying that I had already checked all of that stuff. I don't hear back from company B.
So tonight, I start digging for info on how maybe I can trick it to work. I find a pdf file on how to use a second computer to get validated. It's worth a shot, I think. So I follow the instructions only to get a message that I HAVE TO BE CONNECTED to the internet to install.
It has been over 24 hours and I am no closer to flying than I was yesterday. In the grand scheme of things 24 hours is no big deal...EXCEPT...if this re-installation was a simple process, as it should be, I would have been flying last night. I can fly 99% of the aircraft I own. Why not this one?
So, although these two companies have a couple projects that I am interested in buying, as it stands now, I won't be doing so. I am not going to spend hours upon hours trying to get some $40- $50 & $60 add-on to work. I am old enough to know that after a few days the crying and the shakes of not having this new toy will go away.
Sincerely,
John P. Miguez
On top of that they make us pay extra for there protection that does nothing for us the end user! I am so with you on this and have been for many years. I will not buy anything from a company that does this!
Flight1 does have a brilliant system. I like it alot. I can get my records and backup keys anytime and they usually get back to me within 24 hours if there is an issue.
Bill
I'm investigating a method to detect when someone's tampered with a hidden, file-locked security file, and if the file has been altered in any way whatsoever, the gauge system will delete the .mdl file(s), then self-destruct, rendering the entire aircraft INOP.
Since a legitimate owner would never even look for such a file, much less try to alter it for any reason, no legitimate owner would ever encounter a problem. :ernae:
Since a legitimate owner would never even look for such a file, much less try to alter it for any reason, no legitimate owner would ever encounter a problem. :ernae:
That sounds awesome! lololol.... I would love to have that. Patent it and sell it to us Bill!
Message appears on pirated copy: "This is a non-legal issue of the 'blah blah' aircraft. You have deleted the security keys that enable this file to function. This package is now self terminating per the purchase agreement!"
:d
Pirate: "AAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!"
Now, for those that might be alarmed, but purchased it properly, its like Flight1, you would simply get a new key, run the installer again, and done, you have the model back on your system.
I hate to think of the loss of our planes that requires online connection when the company goes belly up or (God forbid) the internet goes kaput.
Well the whole Internet does not have to go kaput, just your own connection and after that using any sorts of software which requires you to be online is impossible.