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On the weekly news forum the summer sale is supposed to be running until the 19th July. On the main news it is listed as running until midnight on the 13th. It's currently 7pm on the 13th, so clearly not midnight yet in the UK, yet all modules are full price.

I am aware leaving it until the last minute is not always the best way to go, but circumstances change. Guess the F16 will now be my Xmas present to myself...

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I am aware leaving it until the last minute is not always the best way to go ..

 

Yes, definitely not a good idea.

 

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On the weekly news forum the summer sale is supposed to be running until the 19th July. On the main news it is listed as running until midnight on the 13th. It's currently 7pm on the 13th, so clearly not midnight yet in the UK, yet all modules are full price.

I am aware leaving it until the last minute is not always the best way to go, but circumstances change. Guess the F16 will now be my Xmas present to myself...

 

Yeah it definetly said midnight GMT on the 13th July for non Steam editions. Leaving it to the last minute shouldn't be a problem since it's not a physical product, not like they can be sold out. They should stick to the deal they offered. Very bad form.:mad:

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Actually asked on discord nine line and Big Newy about this earlier in the day, as i know of quite a few people that caught out given it was listed as the 19th of July on the 4th July newsletter, then on the 11th July, aka friday gone it was ending sunday night.

 

There was a few people away for the weekend that missed the newsletter and got back to find the sale over.

 

Another example of lost in translation perhaps, the dev team doing one thing and the rest of the company having to pick the pieces up re dealing with customers?

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But yes totally unprofessional, you set a sale date in stone, you don't then change the goal posts once out there.

 

Poor from ED given they are "trying" to engage with the community given the recent disasters.

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Its 12.pm Russian time. Not UK time....

 

Not so:

 

"Our E-shop Sale will run from the 19th of June until the 13th of July at midnight GMT" (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/2020-06-18_SS/)

 

... GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time.

 

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Oh, that’s too bad! I was going to buy the MiG-19 but was under the impression that I had until the 19th to get the sale price.

 

That’s weird that the sale ended early. I guess I will wait and see if I still want it at Christmas time.

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Not so:

 

"Our E-shop Sale will run from the 19th of June until the 13th of July at midnight GMT" (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/2020-06-18_SS/)

 

... GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time.

 

Rudwl think you have missed the point ,alot of people where working from this,

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4409321&postcount=260

 

Quite a few people I know thought the sale was ending on the 19th as per the ED press release. Not good to get the sale dates wrong really.

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This whole problem could be avoided if the timeframe for sales in ED's shop and Steam were a bit more synced. I get it that Steam seems to impose certain rules on these things.

 

Or perhaps actually put in both relevant dates in each of the publications.

 

I remember people on Steam usually get riled up quite badly if they get the newsletter displayed and it has information not relevant to the Steam version.

 

So, at the end of the day, somebody is going to be miffed either way anyway.

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This whole problem could be avoided if the timeframe for sales in ED's shop and Steam were a bit more synced. I get it that Steam seems to impose certain rules on these things.

 

Or perhaps actually put in both relevant dates in each of the publications.

 

I remember people on Steam usually get riled up quite badly if they get the newsletter displayed and it has information not relevant to the Steam version.

 

So, at the end of the day, somebody is going to be miffed either way anyway.

 

Guys you are all missing the OP's post entirely, which means your not aware of the full context i will elaborate.

 

To be clear this is nothing to do with Steam dates, this is within the E Shop Store for stand alone, please don't cloudy the water further.

 

On the 3rd of July, the weekly friday newsletter it stated "We would like to kindly remind you that the DCS World Summer Sale 2020 will continue on our Eshop

until the 19th of July. https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4409321&postcount=260

 

On the 10th of July, friday just passed which some people missed it stated, We hope that the DCS World Summer Sale 2020 has helped expand your knowledge of our

modules. The sale will come to an end on this Monday 13th at midnight GMT. https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4416534&postcount=261

 

Thus people that where away for the weekend, or simply just not across DCS suddenly found themselves this week not being able to access the sale. I personally know of a few people that this has affected.

 

One last point is, and whilst this seem's a minor point, midnight does actually confuse some people also. I know it shouldn't as its a straightforward time for most people but facts are facts ive seen people thinking it was ending at the close of play monday (aka 24hrs to late). Yes that is their fault for not being able to tell the time, but personally given the vast age range, and with a younger audience in mind why not choose a more easily fixed point in time such as 19:00 GMT to avoid confusion.

 

To be honest, i think its a really poor effort from ED and once again a classic example of left hand (dev team) say one thing, right hand (PR side) say another and in between there is a lost in translation. I think given the confusion the least ED could do is honour the sale to the 19th, as per their newsletter, lost sales for them if not and disappointed customers if they don't.

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I don't get the complaining about sales....you got this summer sale, before that the corona sale(how many weeks lasted that one?) including free trail periodes for nearly all modules and even with 50%off for modules only recently released(that f*cked every F-16 EA buyer hard ;) ). And that wasn't the first sale this year neither.... so just wait a month or two and you will see the next sale event. Is it poorly handled from ED to say the sale ends on time x and later they say it ends on time y? Yes, but who cares, the next sale is for sure around the corner for you guys :music_whistling:

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I don't get the complaining about sales....you got this summer sale, before that the corona sale(how many weeks lasted that one?) including free trail periodes for nearly all modules and even with 50%off for modules only recently released(that f*cked every F-16 EA buyer hard ;) ). And that wasn't the first sale this year neither.... so just wait a month or two and you will see the next sale event. Is it poorly handled from ED to say the sale ends on time x and later they say it ends on time y? Yes, but who cares, the next sale is for sure around the corner for you guys :music_whistling:

 

Well since the Beta of MSFS is now available there is no need to wait For Ed's next sale which may, or may not, be honoured by them. Have fun waiting.

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Well since the Beta of MSFS is now available there is no need to wait For Ed's next sale which may, or may not, be honoured by them. Have fun waiting.

 

I don't wait for sales. Actually i only bought one thing during a sale, a paid campaign for the MI-8. I wish you much fun with MSFS, seriously. But MSFS interests me zero, if they release a MSCFS i will have a look :D but before that happens, no thank you MS.

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Guys you are all missing the OP's post entirely, which means your not aware of the full context i will elaborate.

 

To be clear this is nothing to do with Steam dates, this is within the E Shop Store for stand alone, please don't cloudy the water further.

 

On the 3rd of July, the weekly friday newsletter it stated "We would like to kindly remind you that the DCS World Summer Sale 2020 will continue on our Eshop

until the 19th of July. https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4409321&postcount=260

 

On the 10th of July, friday just passed which some people missed it stated, We hope that the DCS World Summer Sale 2020 has helped expand your knowledge of our

modules. The sale will come to an end on this Monday 13th at midnight GMT. https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4416534&postcount=261

 

Thus people that where away for the weekend, or simply just not across DCS suddenly found themselves this week not being able to access the sale. I personally know of a few people that this has affected.

Thanks for clearing that up, I kind of missed out on the wording there.

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... there is no need to wait For Ed's next sale which may, or may not, be honoured by them...

 

I learned a long time ago, to never wait until the last day of a sale ... nowadays I make my purchases on day 1 and so never get frustrated :smartass:

 

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Well since the Beta of MSFS is now available there is no need to wait For Ed's next sale which may, or may not, be honoured by them. Have fun waiting.

 

Sorry for OT but i was not following the MSFS development much but i just read it will not support VR? Maybe after release they say? Wow, so there is zero reason for me to even test that thing.

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Sorry for OT but i was not following the MSFS development much but i just read it will not support VR? Maybe after release they say? Wow, so there is zero reason for me to even test that thing.

 

 

I want to test flying over my home, and the cheapest way is to get an xbox PC account that costs US$ 1 for the first month (on the day the FS2020 gets released), try it for 1 month and then decide if I want to continue (US$ 5 per month) or cancel the subscrition.

 

 

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I want to test flying over my home, and the cheapest way is to get an xbox PC account that costs US$ 1 for the first month (on the day the FS2020 gets released), try it for 1 month and then decide if I want to continue (US$ 5 per month) or cancel the subscrition.

 

 

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass#join

 

Thanks, i know that possibility exists but i will not fly any flightsim without VR again. The feeling in VR is just so different/amazing instead of sitting infront of your monitor.

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You might have gotten the numbers mixed up. 19th was the start date. (June of course)

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/2020-06-18_SS/


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Actually asked on discord nine line and Big Newy about this earlier in the day [...]

 

And apparently you didn't get an answer...

 

well this is not the first case of sales ending too early. I've seen them slated to be until 12pm GMT on a Sunday, being shut already at daytime on Saturday several times in the past. They now topped it by even reducing the time frame by a whole week and using the mistakable time of "midnight" + date. Is that when that day begins or is that when it ends? For me it's the latter. Always has been. So when they say Monday + midnight, I expect the things to run on Monday still.

 

There is a reason why I keep telling others they shouldn't wait till the end...

 

I don't get the complaining about sales....you got this summer sale, before that the corona sale [...]

 

It's all about the principles. They did annouce something that was factually completely wrong in the end.

 

And I didn't need the sale, got everything I need already. But this type of erroneous PR kinda peeves me, especially with the background of the 2.5.6 history of issues. I mean, what else could they possibly mess up next if they can't even get their own dates right? This is actually the worst time this could have happened.

 

Well since the Beta of MSFS is now available there is no need to wait For Ed's next sale which may, or may not, be honoured by them. Have fun waiting.

 

Where in the world is it July 30th already? Could I use your time machine, please? fsgrin.png

 

Thanks, i know that possibility exists but i will not fly any flightsim without VR again. The feeling in VR is just so different/amazing instead of sitting infront of your monitor.

 

I don't want to step into 1.15, but I'll just say they don't even support TrackIR on release. Just pass along and stay with DCS. Once they got VR support, have a sneak peek at it with the Game Pass and decide if you want to keep it somehow.

 

You might have gotten the numbers mixed up. 19th was the start date. (June of course)

 

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/2020-06-18_SS/

 

They said otherwise here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4409321&postcount=260

 

We would like to kindly remind you that the DCS World Summer Sale 2020 will continue on our Eshop

until the 19th of July.

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Hi all

 

Apologies for not replying sooner. The initial date of the 19th was a mistake and the correct date was the 13th.

 

Sorry for the confusion

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