Dawn Of A Forgotten Era

[Flying Mouse]

Sooner then you may think...













Soon I will loose these horrible default clouds and have them replaced with this http://www.realenvironmentxtreme.com/

Can't wait

[Wii]

Love that plane, one of my favorites. What is the scenery? FTX? GEX?

[Anxyous]

Knowing Mousy, I can only imagine it's FTX.

And I'm right there with you on REX...

[Flying Mouse]

Knowing Mousy, I can only imagine it's FTX.

And I'm right there with you on REX...

Spot on  :D

you will find me in Aussie aerospace for a few months to come still  ;D

[krigl]

Easy tiger... REX could still be MANY months away. There is NO release date and with the weather engine and their perfectionism the beta could take a long time yet.

Everyone's very tired of waiting - and they're tired of hearing about it: see the next post after yours

[Flying Mouse]

[quote]Easy tiger... REX could still be MANY months away. There is NO release date and with the weather engine and their perfectionism the beta could take a long time yet.

Everyone's very tired of waiting - and they're tired of hearing about it: see the next post after yours

[ShaneG_old]

Great shots there thread-killer! I do not think the default are all that bad(mainly because that's what I'm stuck with at the moment. ) and they look wonderful in these shots. I may be with you on the FEX/REX issue, and completely agreed with your statement on their thread. Thanks for speaking your mind. 8-)

[Flying Mouse]

Great shots there thread-killer! I do not think the default are all that bad(mainly because that's what I'm stuck with at the moment. ) and they look wonderful in these shots. I may be with you on the FEX/REX issue, and completely agreed with your statement on their thread. Thanks for speaking your mind. 8-)

Thanx for the support there bud  :D

[J.]

what makes me laugh is that if they released it now and it was full of bugs people would be even more jazzed off than they are now, and im looking forward to REX as much as the next guy, but hey just gotta wait.

oh and im loving the shots

[BFMF]

what makes me laugh is that if they released it now and it was full of bugs people would be even more jazzed off than they are now, and im looking forward to REX as much as the next guy, but hey just gotta wait.

oh and im loving the shots

But it's one thing to tell us it's gonna be a while, and another to keep advertising, "IMMEDIATE RELEASE" for the past year and a half...

[J.]

i cant remember at any point a member of the REX team using those words! but hey each to their own i suppose, FS fans seem to be alot more impatient than the rest of the gaming world

[krigl]

what makes me laugh is that if they released it now and it was full of bugs people would be even more jazzed off than they are now, and im looking forward to REX as much as the next guy, but hey just gotta wait.

oh and im loving the shots

But it's one thing to tell us it's gonna be a while, and another to keep advertising, "IMMEDIATE RELEASE" for the past year and a half...

Not quite - it's been about a year, and 'coming soon' was on their site from maybe March.... but I remember on first seeing their pics last October, and before there was any talk of a weather engine or flight planner, thinking naively that 'it looks great, they are posting promo shots, so it must be nearly ready for release'. I thought it would be definitely out for Xmas 07, but Tim was evasive about this and said, just like now, they can't give a specific date but it won't be long.

What I think happened is that they severely underestimated the nightmare of programming the weather engine, and there was maybe some feature creep. It would have made much more financial sense to release it at Xmas as a textures-only product like Flight Environment - many many people would have bought it. Then work on a new product - Rex PRO - with more textures and the planner, weather engine, toaster and everything else... and sell it with a discount to existing customers. Or even without the discount.  :D

It's not about bringing out a bug-free product taking time, and unreasonable impatience from 'immature people' as so often their supporters make it out to be. It's about promoting the product long before it was ready, keeping the idea alive that it's coming soon and generally not communicating with potential customers that actually it's still a long way off - with the result, intentional or not (who can say?), of stringing people along and stopping them from buying competitors products.

[Flying Mouse]

i cant remember at any point a member of the REX team using those words! but hey each to their own i suppose, FS fans seem to be alot more impatient than the rest of the gaming world

Besides the "coming soon" posted on their site for many months there are many quotes in the "dawn of a new era" post hinted early releases at certain times of the post.

Ofcourse the coming soon was removed from their site when people took them to task about the slight misrepresentation, in other words people complaint, who were they? Not me

[J.]

hang on, so your bashing REX and you say it looks awesome, but your against their marketing idea, when i see it as it was probably going to be out around when they first predicted, but then the 4096 res clouds came into play they had to be developed and a weather system and flight planner both of which seem some of the best. However beside all your bashing you still won't buy FEX even though it promises somethign similar and are pulling a similar stunt.

i think this thread has been hijacked

[Flying Mouse]

hang on, so your bashing REX and you say it looks awesome, but your against their marketing idea

Indeed  ;D