Pre-purchase?

[WOPR]

On 1/26/2022 at 7:26 AM, Ramstein said:

when I serviced the F-4's

 

 

 

 

That is cool.  We used to have a retired RF-4 pilot in our group.  Hope he's excited about this too.

[MAXsenna]

15 hours ago, Nexus-6 said:

As I understand it, the "two weeks" meme got started after ED promised the community something a long time ago (I don't recall exactly what) in, you guessed it, two weeks.  By their own admission, they opened an enormous can of worms and paid for their mistake.  Hence, the sardonic response anytime someone asks for an ETA.

In this forum yes.
But some claim it was first used in:

"It was the time estimate the contractors always gave in the 1986 movie "Money Pit"."

And was since adopted bye the flightsim community in the early 90s.

I believe I first encountered it while waiting for Flacon 4.0

 

[Rudel_chw]

16 hours ago, Nexus-6 said:

Hence, the sardonic response anytime someone asks for an ETA.

It was funny the first few times that I saw the expression, nowadays its just annoying, like any bad joke repeated to death. 

Edited January 29, 2022 by Rudel_chw

[upyr1]

On 1/28/2022 at 10:58 AM, Nexus-6 said:

As I understand it, the "two weeks" meme got started after ED promised the community something a long time ago (I don't recall exactly what) in, you guessed it, two weeks.  By their own admission, they opened an enormous can of worms and paid for their mistake.  Hence, the sardonic response anytime someone asks for an ETA.

I forgot who the other person was but on one of the facebook pages when the Hind was about to come out, I would count down the days of the official release date by saying "two more days until Eagle tells us two more weeks" the guy asked "How do I know that" I stated that's based on the official release date and he kept going on how the date was a place holder and never got that I was saying it was going to be pushed back at least two weeks 

[Ala13_ManOWar]

I don't know of earlier uses but the "two weeks" reference was widely used at legendary banana forums by Olex Maddox quite frequently when asked timelines. Nothing new, definitely.

Anyhow, I get why it's used so much since it's highly inappropriate to start asking for early access deadlines when it's clearly yet in development (they would have used more actual material of the module in the trailer otherwise, ahem ) and any close to release right now. I'm happily surprised though by the 2022 date, of course I am, but come one guys, it won't happen any sooner due to buyers impatience, if something it'll be delayed because of that.

Edited January 30, 2022 by Ala13_ManOWar