I think I'd be letting Cessna how "adjustable" EMI was being with their fees. Also let them know that as a result, you're no longer interested in their products.
Willy
Already done Willy. :d
I have been in the flightsimming for over 30 years now and with the hundreds of Cessna's around, both freeware and commercial, I have never ever heard of such a thing as paying royalties for modeling a 'toy aircraft' :costumes:
If it's true then we should see 90% of all aircraft disappear from the sim sites shortly, Abacus, Flight1, Carenado, JustFlight and others can close their doors.
I, for one, think it is BS and someone is trying to pull a fast one on you.
Francois
Hey Francois,
Its a reality. I dont mind the small royalties. Its the huge, annual giant chunck of money that one must pay. That is not right.
Tamiya and other plastic model companies pay corporations royalties on some of their products. True that some would appreciate free advertisement, while others hunger for every red cent they can get, and in the middle is the 'fair and square' right to what is theirs. The big guys are entitled to 'something'. But its a drop in the bucket.
I do foresee alot of payware getting out of the business, and thus the 'glory' and public admiration of product lines such as Airbus airliners, Cessna 140's, Lear jets will soon become a thing of the past.
Whats funny is that for such a huge firm to try to make such a 'sim' plane themselves would cost them perhaps 100,000.00 USD to perhaps 200,000.00 USD, hiring in a team, setting up their office, setting out to create their own sim software. How much would each employee cost? How many hours? How many months? How much floor space? Cost of insurance on those team members? Expenses including copies of 3D Max at $4,000.00 USD each, Adobe CS3 at 2,000.00 USD each, etc. Trips to a plane to take photos. Sound mixing, spending weeks on making and refining the airfile set so the vehicle will handle realistically..
:costumes:
We do that as a write-off. The hours involved are hurrendous. I spent nearly a year on that Epic LT. The hours to profit 'do not add up'. And for a corporation to try it would be quite entertaining...
But, they'll find that out. No worries. :d
Things balance out. Its odd how the world works, how greed will stifle things and cause a huge wave of enthusiasm to die out and drift away.
Right now, General Aviation has been directly effected by Flight Simulator. Fact! One can see that many people that now or recently took up flying was usually directly affiliated with Flight Simulator. They had always wanted to fly, and the sim gives them a chance to 'taste' it. Cessna is selling planes to airschools, to pilots, because these guys (pilots and schools) are being fed enthusiasts that were effected and turned on by FS. FS has been like advertising in a far bigger way then Cessna can ever imagine. Airline pilots are out there that were originally simmers and were so impressed with FS and flight, that they got their license and are presently doing runs to Honolulu or Boston or Heathrow.
Now, to squash and stifle the ever growing enthusiasm and turn against it for the sake of greed and money will only turn upon them. Less Cessna's will be built, less pilots, less this, less that, less enthusiasm, less aviation engineers in school, and the drought sets in and things dry up....
Bill
ng "wise guys" payed attention and are looking to get some of that cake.... I guess it explains current pricing on some comercial developers.