Classic British Flight Sim

On a related subject, the Connie that was on that page looks very nice indeed!

(Of course there are some very, very good connies out there at the moment)

emfrat wrote:Well, I suppose that is what happens when the Marketing People are allowed to take control of the asylum.

Cheers
MikeW

Hi Mike

Isn't it good that the payware people are making 'Classics'? I mean everyone else seems obsessed with modern jets, I for one applaud anyone who has two BOAC liveried classics in production,

Kind regards

John

Ha ha and yes I am in marketing ;-)

ohhh...I am a Comet aficionado and , although I fly the DM beautiful DH106 since its heydays in FS9, I am happy to see a new product coming out. The VC by DM is absolutely unique but the external model is a little bit out-to-date by today standards. Why not??

Hi Mike

Isn't it good that the payware people are making 'Classics'?
John

Ha ha and yes I am in marketing ;-)

Cheers, John -
I don't mean it is necessarily a bad thing. It just doesn't seem to be the best business decision, when you consider that (a) there is a limited number of 'classics' to be drawn on, and (b) many of them are already excellently provided as freeware. Maybe those skilled design resources could be allocated to making improved versions of the freeware ones that are not as good as they might be, in terms of panels, FDEs and perhaps even new mdls to include VCs where they are lacking.

During my time in production control in the steel industry, I saw quite a few grand marketing schemes which certainly impressed other marketing professionals, but our aim was to provide new products that the end customers actually had some use for, not to invest in creating something which marketing theory said should sell, even though the customers didn't know they needed it. ;-)
On the other hand, my brother who designs warships met a former classmate who had gone into marketing. This classmate told him that if anyone could create a drink from watermelons, he could design a can which would make it sell like hot cakes, because the natural watermelon colours were near-perfect, in package design terms. Unfortunately it had not gone ahead, since every attempt up until then to make the drink had turned out totally bland and insipid, although the manufacturers were still trying, and for all I know, still are.

ATB
MikeW