Had to buy this Sim twice

[Evader]

Some might think I'm crazy for buying a game (don't even like using that word when it come to DCS) a Study Sim twice. I just feel that a product of this quality is worth so much more than what ED charges. I would pay twice what they charge without blinking an eye. I just look at it as a value/cost relationship.....the time I will spend on DCS A-10 is 100's:1 of other $50.00 games.

 

So, to me it is a way of supporting the very company that produces what I want and so very few other developers are willing to venture into...Simulations.

 

I'm sure there are many others like myself, buying A-10 twice because doing so represents more of it's true value.

Edited February 23, 2011 by Evader

[Kenan]

Well, it's a great product for a nice price but a...I wouldn't be giving them any ideas... :D

[SmokeyTheLung]

I'm sure there are many others like myself, buying A-10 twice because doing so represents more of it's true value.

you are not alone...:alien:

[EtherealN]

Well, it's a great product for a nice price but a...I wouldn't be giving them any ideas... :D

 

Too late. :D

 

:D

:D

:D

:D

 

...

 

:D

 

But seriously speaking, I'm probably going to buy a second copy too - I want it in my Steam list properly. :)

[Kuky]

I bought BS 4 times... 1st was Russian CD... I never got this one (bastards) but wasn't too much of a deal as it was very cheap... 2nd was Russian DL, 3rd was English DL and 4th time was English CD... with DCS A-10C I pre-purchased but I'm not sure if I'll get CD as well when it comes out... I am sure I will IF ED anounce that next DCS module is a fighter as team like that would be very good suporting ;)

 

EDIT: wait a second... now I remember I bough another serial for DCS A-10C for the squad server... so that's 2 copy of that already...

[213]

this is silly. they're just a company i patronized. i feel no loyalty to them.

[Sinner6]

213, if ED does not continue making these products you may find a very short list of companies to patronize indeed. Nobody else would be crazy enough to try and make such a niche product from scratch. Remember, A10C's lineage goes back more than 10 years.

[Le0kong]

Now your opinion/suggestions count double!

 

 

"In Soviet Russia consumer demand higher prices." :D

[Apples]

Some might think I'm crazy for buying a game (don't even like using that word when it come to DCS) a Study Sim twice. I just feel that a product of this quality is worth so much more than what ED charges. I would pay twice what they charge without blinking an eye. I just look at it as a value/cost relationship.....the time I will spend on DCS A-10 is 100's:1 of other $50.00 games.

 

So, to me it is a way of supporting the very company that produces what I want and so very few other developers are willing to venture into...Simulations.

 

I'm sure there are many others like myself, buying A-10 twice because doing so represents more of it's true value.

 

Why not just donate them your life savings?

[rexehuk]

I bought it once... go me!

 

I think you should setup a direct debit and just pay them every week or two, I'm sure ED wont mind. ED is a good company... but there are many out there who still make good niche games, but I still wont pay over the odds.

 

Sure ED could of charged $300 for it... but I'd like to see how far that strategy would take them as the game would tighten an already niche game market sector which they dominate.

[mooshim]

Now your opinion/suggestions count double!

 

"In Soviet Russia consumer demand higher prices." :D

LMFAO!

 

I got back with my ex-girlfriend. Now, I'm lucky if my opinions count at all.

[galagamo]

So you have an extra key? Install it on the spare PC, and then practice formation flying with yourself ;)

[WynnTTr]

The $60 is just right imho. It allows the mainstream to buy it cos that's what the mainstream are used to price-wise. Make it any higher and you'll be putting off fence-sitters that are just thinking about it. You'll make it even more niche than what we are already.

 

Not for the rich niche, er.. capiche?

[ShadowVonChadwick]

After 25 years of flight sims, F19 stealth fighter, Longbow2, All of Jane's products, Falcon4 (98 to 03 ) Lomac, BlackShark, FreeFalcon5, FC2, F4AF & now A-10c I have seen its hard for a house to make a dollar out of this niche market.

 

I love flight sims & will gladly pay to support anyone who tries to follow their passion and produce a quility flight sim.

 

A take away dinner for 1.......... $10

A family meal out.....................$100

A slab of beer..........................$40

Cigs for the avg smoker a week ,,$40

Call-out fee for a decent tradie....$50

A trip to the thearter.................$12-$100

 

Countless hours of flightsimming....Priceless, $50 a steal.

 

If rumors are true ill gladly pay again for Navada.

 

With respect to those on tight incomes...........Shad

Edited February 23, 2011 by ShadowVonChadwick

[Evader]

After 25 years of flight sims, F19 stealth fighter, Longbow2, All of Jane's products, Falcon4 (98 to 03 ) Lomac, BlackShark, FreeFalcon5, FC2, F4AF & now A-10c I have seen its hard for a house to make a dollar out of this niche market.

 

I love flight sims & will gladly pay to support anyone who tries to follow their passion and produce a quility flight sim.

 

A take away dinner for 1.......... $10

A family meal out.....................$100

A slab of beer..........................$40

Cigs for the avg smoker a week ,,$40

Call-out fee for a decent tradie....$50

A trip to the thearter.................$12-$100

 

Countless hours of flightsimming....Priceless, $50 a steal.

 

If rumors are true ill gladly pay again for Navada.

 

With respect to those on tight incomes...........Shad

 

This is so true, the entertainment value of DCS A-10 is an absolute steal!

 

Plus, I have paid most likely 50 times the price of DCS A-10 on worthless games I played less than an hour....now that is a waste of $$

[Rusty_M]

I found $60 fairly pricey, I'll admit that, but that's because I'm on a very limited budged. I do think it makes some sense for what you get. If I had plenty money, rather than buying multiple copies, I think I'd probably try to purchase a few ED shares. I feel no particular loyalty to ED, but really like what I've seen them do so far. I'd invest in other sim producing companies (provided there's something of a track record and desire to continue) as I don't want the genre to die.

[EtherealN]

If I had plenty money, rather than buying multiple copies, I think I'd probably try to purchase a few ED shares.

 

[...]

 

I'd invest in other sim producing companies (provided there's something of a track record and desire to continue) as I don't want the genre to die.

 

Not possible - ED is a privately held company. ;)

And besides, buying shares doesn't support unless the shares are new emissions.

[kiss4luna]

years ago i bought LOMAC 6 or 8 times

bought 2 download version of black shark, 1 steam version, 1 disk version

pre-ordered a10 but i will think twice before buying more copies.

life is a huge game more complex than any video games, and i got a lot of other habbitates besides flight sims and they are all expensive - warhammer, audiophile, music instruments, music CDs, etc. and i'm still single now, having years not touched or slept with a girl lol

i bought the steam version because it doesnt have activition limits, it's more easy to play owned games at different pcs, run benchmarks on different cpus to see the changes without losing activition times

lol

[BigBANGtheory]

Would it not be better to have somekind of community slush fund to go towards additional development requests in a future patch?

[BKLronin]

I think the price is ok. I will definetely get an additional disc Version if theres a nice extra shipped with it.

[mic1184]

i don't think i would've bought a-10c if it was priced $120 in the first place. having played nearly 100 hours meanwhile and spending the same amount of time reading the manual and the secondary literature, i would.

 

I would rather go and buy black shark or FC2 than wasting money on another license i never use. If ED had a paypal donation button where i could donate a few spare bucks (like i do to wikipedia once a year and some indie devs i like) I would probably do it once in a while after a hilarious mission.

[bmbpdk]

I think the price is ok. I will definetely get an additional disc Version if theres a nice extra shipped with it.

 

me too, if there is a printed manual or disc version of the game, ill buy it again

[Rusty_M]

Not possible - ED is a privately held company. ;)

And besides, buying shares doesn't support unless the shares are new emissions.

 

Wasn't sure if it was private or not. That's why i Said "try":D

 

Didn't realise that wouln't help in any way. Ah well. Buying further licences would be the way to go then, but it's all moot, as I don't have the money anyway. I have GBP0.52 more than the price to pre-order Cliffs Of Dover currently sitting in my account, so there's no room for an extra DCS licence :D

 

I'll just have to rave about it to my friends and on other forums in the hope that they will buy it:D

[EtherealN]

Didn't realise that wouln't help in any way. Ah well.

 

Yeah, the way it works is that a company that needs money (for whatever reason) will create new shares - they'll "emit" - and offer them for purchase. So say they need 1 million dollars and thus emit 100 000 shares at 10 dollars each. If person A buys a share, he has given the company 10 dollars and that supports them. But if he then sells this share to person B, the money person B spends on the share doesn't go to the company - it goes to person A.

 

You could think of it like this as well - if you buy a DCS:A-10C license, you give ED money. But if I then buy your license from you, I give you money - not ED.

 

There's tonnes of ways to support ED though. Like you said - spread the word. You can also help out through seeding on the torrent (bandwidth is expensive), rearranging the shelves at your local gaming store to give ED products greater exposure (that's the ninja way :D ), complain to any local gaming sites or magazines if they haven't covered ED products and so on.

[lubey]

Thrustmaster should really give ED royalties. I mean, DCS a10c would exist without the HOTAS, but a lot of the hotas sales come directly from dcs pilots.

 

edit: obviously I mean the A-10c replica hotas to be specific

Edited February 23, 2011 by lubey
to be more specific in conveying my thoughts