So first of all: Welcome Zack!
I didn't follow these problems with the Harrier and the dev and the community and although I bought and casually fly the Harrier I never tried to use it in combat, so I wasn't ever really let down by it or can comment on that.
But I flew both the Mirage 2000 C and the MiG-19 from very early on in the early access and could follow especially the changes being made to the physics model of both modules. I also got several other modules that compare pretty much to those two in the pace that things are completed or introduced. The only real difference that I felt with RAZBAM from the start was that they usually got their modules into EA much sooner than most. So there had to be a lot more to be finished by them on those modules compared to those of other devs.
I for one always considered that a prize I could pay for getting more modules in a shorter time in EA but less complete and with a long completion time until they really worked fine.
And I say they worked fine. Not they are ready. Or they are complete.
I'm at this Sim for a long time, starting out with Lock On Modern Air Combat. And I can't really understand this attitude towards RAZBAM, that they do something incredibly wrong in not bringing complete modules out in "Release" or "Feature Complete", because that is something that was with this sim from the very beginning and is in itself a good thing because we can get a more or less capable aircraft to have fun with and always know in the back of our minds that problems with this Module that are not real life problems of the original will at some point in the future be adressed and the deal will be getting better the longer we wait. Except of course the dev goes bankrupt as with VEAO. That's sad for every one.
So what I think about the problem: It might be a good idea if ED and their third parties come together and negotiate a terminology for customer communication as to try and prevent these things from happening again.
And if for a native speaker (I'm btw. from germany) feature complete has to mean that all the features are completed as opposed to all the features are completely implemented but not all are complete, than that may be so. Maybe a slightly week point though from my point of veiw...
One last thing. I for one am grateful for all the work the devs and especially RAZBAM puts in their Modules. It can't be easy to push projects while others are in EA and all the while everything has to be updated to fit the ever changing code of the game. We buy one of these modules for the same prize I pay for one weeks worth of food - so it's not exactly the prize of a sportscar, right? - so it might be a bit unfair to always demand and very seldom give back some sort of Thank You to those that keep it all running.
So for a change Zack, give the Team my Thanks for a wonderful Mirage 2000 and a in terms of physics very much improved MiG-19. I haven't lost my faith in them and understand that these especially are hard times for us all.
