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The Rise of Flight board, SimHQ:
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3254598/1.html
Remember, this is the sim that has a permanent online requirement even for offline gaming (they eased up on it a bit a while ago, so you can now fly pointless instant action type missions without the connection requirement), shipped with only 2 flyable planes (you get 2 more for free though once connecting to their "Master Server" and after d/l several additional GB worth of data so that you can even start up the game) and requires you to pay some $ 7,95 or so for each extra flyable.
I know there are a few flightsimmers / sim enthusiasts around these corners here, too. Is anyone else annoyed at the eXtreme faggotry going on at SimHQ since - oh, actually - years now? With all the dev brown nosing going on there and almost every review sounding like advertisement even if the product is a POS, I could sometimes swear I'm on some developers board. Well, actually, they even did open an extra sub-forum for "777 Studios", which is a publisher, headed by this Jason type.
The reasoning of SimHQ is like this: Flightsims are dying out [yeah, they are "dying out" since over a decade now], so let's all be happy and thankful when we get a POS thrown at us, charged 3 times for it, and let's advertise it in our "review".
It seems it is only recently changing some with the technical desaster that is IL2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, because having only some 10 FPS on mid settings even on a high end machine is too blatant a fuck up even for them to downplay.
No wonder the sim market is in this shitty state. Dumbasses. While they are not the sole reason, they're certainly not helping it any with their "shovel shit down our throat please while you rape us from behind" attitude.
Derp said:
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3254598/1.html
Remember, this is the sim that has a permanent online requirement even for offline gaming (they eased up on it a bit a while ago, so you can now fly pointless instant action type missions without the connection requirement), shipped with only 2 flyable planes (you get 2 more for free though once connecting to their "Master Server" and after d/l several additional GB worth of data so that you can even start up the game) and requires you to pay some $ 7,95 or so for each extra flyable.
I know there are a few flightsimmers / sim enthusiasts around these corners here, too. Is anyone else annoyed at the eXtreme faggotry going on at SimHQ since - oh, actually - years now? With all the dev brown nosing going on there and almost every review sounding like advertisement even if the product is a POS, I could sometimes swear I'm on some developers board. Well, actually, they even did open an extra sub-forum for "777 Studios", which is a publisher, headed by this Jason type.
The reasoning of SimHQ is like this: Flightsims are dying out [yeah, they are "dying out" since over a decade now], so let's all be happy and thankful when we get a POS thrown at us, charged 3 times for it, and let's advertise it in our "review".
It seems it is only recently changing some with the technical desaster that is IL2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, because having only some 10 FPS on mid settings even on a high end machine is too blatant a fuck up even for them to downplay.
No wonder the sim market is in this shitty state. Dumbasses. While they are not the sole reason, they're certainly not helping it any with their "shovel shit down our throat please while you rape us from behind" attitude.
