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Su-27

a.f.s su27

noddy said:
http://secure.simmarket.com/afs-design-sukhoi-su-27-fsx.phtml

I know that the previous offerings from the Dev have not been brilliant, but I am almost tempted!
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dont be tempted, go for the alphasim su27, there's a couple of
variants, 5 textures and many more if you browes the internet.
i got a.f.s mig 29 and as with there su27 they have rockets
slung all over, it was a waste of money, at least with alphasim
you can change weapons.
bazak.
 
I sincerely hope you mean DEVELOPER and not VENDOR, Michael, as the vendor is plain from the host of the product page.

However, if you really want to pay full time wages for a team of people to test every add-on, product and tool that becomes available through all the online sales sites and then add the cost on top of the mark up you already pay for products through them then you are more than welcome - I'm sure a number of people would love that job.

The problem here is no different than buying a boxed product in a shop. The responsibility for labelling and describing a product marketed through any location other than a developer's own site or store has to lie with the developer or publisher (usually, in FS circles, these are the same people) themselves. I don't expect a high street store to test every package that they sell - it's impossible - and the same applies to online download stores as well. The people to put pressure on are the developers and publishers who misrepresent their products. You are quite within your rights (dependent on the country the shop is in, which is always an issue) to ask for a refund - which is a sticky mess anyway with download products, but that's a different argument - but if you actually want the labelling to improve, it needs to come from the people writing the descriptions in the first place.

Or, quite simply, you pay more per product to get every one tested and often a new description written before it before on sale through a shop. At which point the complaint would be "Why do you put such a massive mark up on products you rip-off scum!?" rather than "Why did you not label this product as to exactly what it is rather than what the developer says it is, you rip off scum!?"

See the problem?
 
update

I received a refund today...SimMarket pulled through, and my faith in them has been restored.:ernae:
 
thats great news, you know what really p'd me off with the mig 29, the control stick didn't pull backwards I really like photoreal VC's but this just takes the biscuit for absolute terribleness, I only hope that one day we will have a native su27 series of flankers worthy of this sim!!
 
IanP said:
They cannot possibly test every add-on so assuming they can somehow mark them to say what they are is pretty unrealistic, djscoo.
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Huh? If you're going to sell something, you darn well should test it.

These online stores essentially are the publishers with payware. It's their responsibility to check out products before they offer them, IMHO.
 
DennyA said:
Huh? If you're going to sell something, you darn well should test it.

These online stores essentially are the publishers with payware. It's their responsibility to check out products before they offer them, IMHO.
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Do you really thing a store like Best Buy has the responsability of testing everything that it puts on its shelf? No. Its up to the Dev to do what it can to make sure it puts out a good products for the customers, not the store. If the store gets a lot of grief, they tend to pull the products and give it back to the dev.
 
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