just a communication suggestion :)

[Squid]

Maybe i have missed this, and its somewhere out there, correct me if i am wrong. What i want to suggest to ED (and helping stuff) is to add a little more face and some connection with the community. For example an about page in the dcs / fc sites with some photos and bios of the people involved, and more interestingly some interviews space in the site and / or the forum, for example i am interested (as others) about for example how the roadmap decisions are / have been made, the story behind the decision for the P-51 for example etc

 

It would be a lot more appealing and internally satisfying i think for the buyers - community / supporters but for all the people involved in creating these products too i believe to have some form of connection with a face among both ends. I always liked to consider simmers rather like a big friendly international hobby company of fellows with a lot in common :)

 

i believe it would be a big step forward to alter the current image of lets say a mystery unaproachable team working hard somewhere in Russia, Matt has been doing a good job in the direction but its the only person i can recall right from the top of my head. I remember the good old days of printed manuals and material and nice boxes sim software was coming with, and this photo of the whole ED-TFC team somewhere in there. Personally, i believe its making a difference.

 

We live a lot virtually, spending so much time of our lives in front of faceless screens although they do connect us verbally in a global scale and allows us to share with eachother our interests , enthusiasm and fun. Investing on more face i think its always a good thing, as theres definitely more to life than bits and bytes :)

 

Theres passion involved in this thing, especially regarding creators. Passion shouldnt be faceless :)

 

Most probably though there are many practical reasons making my suggestions maybe difficult to implement, like limited time and energy resources left for lets say "PR" and that is ofcourse understood and respected. I jus't don't know though how's the situation so nothing to lose just stating a thought or two on this. :)

 

So, just wishing for less corporate, more friends :) (in appearances at least LOL)

 

 

Thanks ED and everybody for keeping us such an exciting (although bugy LOL) company for so many years - I always remember that night (93-94 i think) i bought this british magazine with a cd full of demos from a kiosk, and the awe and excitement when faced the Su-27 Demo on the office pc (it would be still some years later when i'd manage to have my own first home PC) - how exciting the head tracker mode was and never got bored of the demo mission of intercepting the two Mig-29s before they bomb the AB .... :thumbup:

[EtherealN]

Regarding a "mystery unapproachable team [...] in russia", I'd note that a lot of the team is actually quite active on the forum - but like most people they prefer to communicate in their native language. So unfortunately I suppose it might be a case of it not really being needed for the russian speakers, but the english speakers getting sort of "left out".

 

On the general idea though, people have been thinking about things like this, but as always the problem is time. Someone has to take time from other duties to organize and arrange all of this stuff. If products sell well enough to allow more extravagant hiring policies perhaps, but in this market I suspect it's hard to get those margins. (Caveat for the fact that I'm largely clueless about ED's economics, but I know the size of the team and what people do (generally), so I can guesstimate how overworked most of them are already. :P )

Edited April 10, 2012 by EtherealN

[159th_Viper]

Passion shouldnt be faceless :)

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=762904#post762904

[cichlidfan]

Thanks Viper, I had not seen that. Perhaps a sticky or link somewhere?

[159th_Viper]

Moved to Community News Forum.

[cichlidfan]

Moved to Community News Forum.

 

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