Pre-order, 17th of February’23

[AdrianL]

10 minutes ago, JohnMclane said:

Steam users cannot get the book that’s being given out for the preorder period.

The book is only coming with EA. It was never part of the pre-order.

It will be in the F-15E docs folder along with the manual when installed

Edited February 17, 2023 by AdrianL

[M1Combat]

27 minutes ago, Alicatt said:

That is how it has been with the other modules, but, the statement made by @BIGNEWY and the tag in the title makes it read that the pre order is for today only

What makes you think the person who tagged the thread with that has any idea what they're talking about?

[Dograw75]

2 hours ago, pii said:

Well, I suspect Steam has some say in it. 

And now Stop buying on Steam,Please! It offers nothing other than making ED less profitable which isn't good for them or us. 

I would have switched a long time ago, but I live in the middle of nowhere and have a 10mb connection and would need another SSD to allow the transfer so I could still play for the month it would take to download the 400gb   I got DCS on steam with out even knowing there was a standalone.

[Dograw75]

2 hours ago, pii said:

Well, I suspect Steam has some say in it. 

And now Stop buying on Steam,Please! It offers nothing other than making ED less profitable which isn't good for them or us. 

And also.... If ED doesnt wat to buy through Steam, why do they sell it there?

[Steve Gee]

Are we not getting Miles with the pre-order because Razbam isn't participating in that program? I ask because I got Miles with the Falklands/SA order and it's a Razbam project.

[BIGNEWY]

tag removed, it made more sense to the ops first post 

 

threads merged 

[AdrianL]

2 minutes ago, Steve Gee said:

Are we not getting Miles with the pre-order because Razbam isn't participating in that program

Razbam decide the F-15E will not be in the miles program.  They might decide other products will be included in the future. Or maybe they decided it is not worth it/

 

[CybrSlydr]

I placed my pre-order - can't wait!

[PluckyUnderdog]

12 minutes ago, AdrianL said:

Razbam decide the F-15E will not be in the miles program.  They might decide other products will be included in the future. Or maybe they decided it is not worth it/

 

In my opinion (I stress it's my own, and pure speculation on my part) the developer knows they have a 'golden goose' with the Eagle and want to reap as much income as possible from it. Hence the 'pre-order' as well.

 

Incidentally, that isn't a criticism as such, it's obviously just basic economics.

 

It just understandably leaves a bit of a sour taste in the mouth.

Edited February 17, 2023 by PluckyUnderdog
Addition of a sentence

[badger7966]

OK,,,OK i bought it......I know its a pre-order so i'm not bitching....but is there any kind of a rough idea about the "real" release date......yea yea two weeks !!!

[AdrianL]

3 minutes ago, badger7966 said:

but is there any kind of a rough idea about the "real" release date

No. You looking at 2+ months at least

[AdrianL]

Razbam have said the F-15 might join the miles program after EA

 

Edited February 17, 2023 by AdrianL

[Dudikoff]

Hmm. Getting it for $24 would have felt like a steal for an F-15E, like, literally. Kind of glad I've missed the chance to be tempted by like 15 minutes..

Now, just need a Tornado to complete the list of my three most played sims on my first PC (MP's F-14 FD and F-15 SE3, DI's Tornado).

Fortunately, the DCS gods have granted us some mercy in that regard recently, so here's hoping..

Edited February 17, 2023 by Dudikoff

[Eaglewings]

55 minutes ago, AdrianL said:

Razbam decide the F-15E will not be in the miles program.  They might decide other products will be included in the future. Or maybe they decided it is not worth it/

 

Does this equally mean I am not getting any miles if I purchase F-15E now? I do not want to use miles in pre-ordering the Eagle but at least give me my accrued miles.

[DOG]

3 minutes ago, Eaglewings said:

Does this equally mean I am not getting any miles if I purchase F-15E now? I do not want to use miles in pre-ordering the Eagle but at least give me my accrued miles.

on the store under the price of every module u see (MILES: ####) for every module except the F15E

[erniedaoage]

46 minutes ago, Dudikoff said:

Hmm. Getting it for $24 would have felt like a steal for an F-15E, like, literally. Kind of glad I've missed the chance to be tempted by like 15 minutes..

Now, just need a Tornado to complete the list of my three most played sims on my first PC (MP's F-14 FD and F-15 SE3, DI's Tornado).

Fortunately, the DCS gods have granted us some mercy in that regard recently, so here's hoping..

 

I bought the A10C + Combined Arms (with DCS 1.2.) from Amazon for 15 Euro 7-8 years ago and i still feel a little bit guilty. 

[Stubbies2003]

29 minutes ago, Eaglewings said:

Does this equally mean I am not getting any miles if I purchase F-15E now? I do not want to use miles in pre-ordering the Eagle but at least give me my accrued miles.

 

THIS.  I get why they decide to not allow miles to be used in the purchase but at least let us accrue miles for the full pre order pricing.  Not even allowing miles to accrue is a D punch.

[AdrianL]

33 minutes ago, Eaglewings said:

I am not getting any mile

Yes. The F-15 is not part of the miles program so you cannot use or accrue miles.

 

[flyingscotsman]

Got my order in, man it was log jammed earlier, could'nt even get connected , So went and had a mug of tea, chilled, and it's all sorted on the next attempt. 

Wonder how many have sold? In two minds on this one, I worked with RAF Lakenheath from RAF Honington, on various things, had a monthly visit to the North Sea range control and watched a few live and a few recorded 'fights', always interesting to see the RAF'V USAF methods and then off to the burger bar....but don't get run over by a trundling Strike Eagle. Noisy objects. I think this wlll be a few screens too many for me, but as long as it has LN on the tail, I'll be happy ....its what retirement is for, wheeeee!!!!!

[Dragon1-1]

Would that be possible to, at least, provide a Steam key to those who preorder through ED store? I suppose I could do that, but I'm not going to move off Steam just because of one module.

Otherwise, I'll be waiting for it to be 30% off on a sale. No skin off my nose, it'll probably take a while for singleplayer content to be made, anyway. This Steam user does not appreciate the middle finger, thank you very much.

[JagHond]

Preordered just a few minutes ago.

We are happy now. My wallet isn't available to comment.

And the very last one will be The Very Long Awaited Tornado (if and when) - promised!

With best regards.

Edited February 17, 2023 by JagHond

[Foogle]

2 hours ago, Dragon1-1 said:

Would that be possible to, at least, provide a Steam key to those who preorder through ED store? I suppose I could do that, but I'm not going to move off Steam just because of one module.

Otherwise, I'll be waiting for it to be 30% off on a sale. No skin off my nose, it'll probably take a while for singleplayer content to be made, anyway. This Steam user does not appreciate the middle finger, thank you very much.

Valve takes a large margin, it wouldn't make sense to sell a module at 30% off on a store that takes 30%; a little math shows a return of 49% of the full price.

My advice is to move to standalone, because you can bring any steam purchased modules over to the standalone client, which gives you 2 stores to buy from.

Edited February 17, 2023 by Foogle
Fixed bad math

[VDV]

one stupid question - when F-15E will ready for download, will it be EA (i hope not), or it will be full released from day one?

[AdrianL]

11 minutes ago, VDV said:

will it be EA

It will be EA. It will have all A-A weapons, dumb bombs and GBUs at this point. Everything else comes later.

And then they add the CTU's over time

Edited February 17, 2023 by AdrianL

[YoYo]

4 minutes ago, VDV said:

one stupid question - when F-15E will ready for download, will it be EA (i hope not), or it will be full released from day one?

As we know - someday.