lowflyr wrote: ↑10 May 2021, 13:53
I'm just as excited as anyone to get an A2A plane in MSFS (and the Comanche to start? That was my first A2A love!). But asking for a timeline, even a vague one, is probably a lost cause. Even if they thought it was going to be done by the end of the week, they are smart enough not to say anything because the moment they do and something goes wrong, we (the collective simmers) are up in arms about broken promises and ruined expectations. So they are going to (rightfully) keep us in the dark, and we will beg and plead but get nowhere until they are ready to announce. Can't blame them, we are a tough crowd to please.
That may be the case with other developers, with other user bases. We here understand that doing what A2A does is not easy. If it were, everyone would be doing it, but there is only one A2A. So all of us would be more than understanding if delays were to appear. Dudley Henriques said that they could release it now, but they would rather wait and deliver the best plane they can. No one was upset about that. In fact, everyone was quite happy with that. PMDG have pushed back their timing on the NG3 several times. No one was upset about that either. So i think everyone here would be more than understanding about delays.
And you may say that "look at PMDG, they had to delay several times, so what use is there to announce a timing only to push it back?" But because PMDG gave us a time frame, now everyone knows that it's pretty unlikely to see the NG3 this year. Now people know that they don't need to worry about hardware or software upgrades for example, since they have plenty of time. And it would be nice to know if the Comanche is weeks, or months, or quarters, or years away, for the same reasons. Thomas is debating whether to get the Arrow now, or wait. I'm sure he would appreciate a timeframe, even if that timeframe was 2022. And so would I, to be honest.
Either way, it's up to A2A. Like i said above, all of us here know what it means to wait for a quality product. We've been waiting for a pretty long time now. I'm sure we can manage waiting a little while longer without issues.