Thanks for the community support, ED! You guys are awesome.

[ironstrike]

Short version:

Because Wags posted here:

 

Head tracking API attached. Good luck.

 

You just got two more sales of DCS A-10. Thank you for listening to your community! Keep up the good work, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who will now happily throw money at you. :D

 

 

 

Longer version:

ED, I love your work, but the removal of your own head tracking solution because NP said so really hurt. I sincerely hope you guys were paid well for that. It was the primary concern preventing me from purchasing two copies of A-10. Now, I'm also no fan of the master-server requirement for LAN play, nor do I enjoy the activation-based DRM (it may be less insulting than other systems but it still hasn't stopped the pirates, so it's still a failure and inconveniencing only your paying customers). The three of these complaints were enough to convince me not to give you my financial support, but I decided I would be happy to change my mind if you guys also did on any one of the above.

 

Not only did you, but you picked the most important of the three for me! You have listened to the pleas from your community to support them over the noise of a company that is bitter about not being able to compete with a product that is so superior, it requires nothing but a webcam and a face. ;)

 

Those of you who were clamoring for ED's support for head tracking, now that we have it and the clever folks are building solutions for us, don't hesitate to chime in if it also motivated you to support ED. They're a business after all and I'm sure they'd like to know their decision was a good one.

 

Thanks again ED, and well done. You're up two sales already and I can now happily recommend A-10 to my friends.

Edited June 18, 2011 by ironstrike
I can't spell.

[Contrail]

+1. I have had my TrackIr for a few years now, and it still hasn't failed me yet. That been said, it's good to know that when mine does decide to die there is a quick, cheap alternate solution out there.

 

ED is a rare company indeed to actually listen and implement features to a reasonable extent.

 

Respect to the Eagle team :thumbup:

[celticcoho]

Well Spoken!!!!!Just wait for DCS to amaze you more, cheers!!!:thumbup:

[RodBorza]

One of the best things for me so far, has been the customer support from ED.

Not only the sim is amazing (lots and lots of WOW moments - see specific thread -) but also the fact that they are listening, reading the forums and being supportive. Now and then, the man himself, Matt Wagner reads and answer some posts to help the community. I really don't remember the last time where a major video game company head executive read or answered a direct question from one of its customers. ED is small, and that doesn't stop them from being very supportive to the customers requests.

[mooshim]

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