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Nemeth Designs closing its doors... (Read 1466 times)
Jun 22
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DIRECT to you from Hovercontrol.com forums::
http://www.hovercontrol.com/cgi-bin/ib3/ikonboard.cgi?s=79168a1349fa4b9690f0a10c...
posted by AUSSIECOP, Owner of Nemeth Designs..
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It is with great sadness that I need to let the community know that we will be ceasing further development on products until we develop a proper anti piracy measure to beat the rampant piracy of our products.
Less than a week after the release of the A109 it has started appearing on torrent sites and our sales have gone to virtually nothing the very next day. We had some download issues where we had to make other arrangements to make sure customers were still getting their downloads, one of these customers decided to obviously share this and it was downloaded over 400 times in 24 hours, just goes to show how much this hurts us as we have sold under that in total sales since release.
I am writing this post very frustrated at the people that think what we do is something they want, but don't feel they need to pay for the 6-8 months of work we put in to produce it. The thing some people are not aware of is that 2 out of the 3 developers at ND rely solely on income derived from the making of these helicopters. This is not my full time job, but it is to the other 2 developers and without income there is no money to keep expenses like websites and internet connectivity going and that means in the end, no more ND.
Although this is not accusing anyone here at hovercontrol, I am aware that there are people who pirate our products that come here to converse with other helicopter flight sim enthusiasts.
To those of you who think that is perfectly fine behaviour, understand that without people buying products from us, there is no more products, so that next helicopter you wanted in FSX may not come due to the people who think it is ok to just download and not pay for it.
This community as a whole is great and I have enjoyed speaking with everyone in this role, it is just unfortunate that the few who think it's perfectly ok to behave like this may prevent us from bringing new models to the FS community unless we can find a foolproof system that ensures that we can still receive income from our work.
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Jun 22
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In order to avoid confusion, I would have included "temporarily" in the topic title, as once they find a solution, they are resuming development.
The way I see it, piracy of add-ons is never going to be stopped. Not the way FSX and FS9 are set up. If Microsoft came up with a way to prevent piracy with Flight add-ons, that would be great. But I doubt that the current versions of FS will see the end of piracy.
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Jun 22
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Sad news, alas anti-piracy is always a cat and mouse thing and there is no 100% secure solution....
There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!
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Jun 22
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Nemeth should hook up with Flight1 to use their wrapper or Aerosoft.
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Jun 22
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I know for sure that Flight1's security was cracked a while back. Some clever-clogs came up with a way around their install systems
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Jun 22
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My thought, is package everything and only sell on CD's. Make the Cd's Copy-protected like the FS9 Disk 4 was. .. yes, there are ways around it, but the average jo-shmow wont know the programs to use to crack the CD.
in that.. put a watermark inside & outside the aircraft.. special registration number. if you do crack the CD, and try to upload it, then "the uploader" could/would be liable for any number of downloads thereafter (possibly 400+) be charged for PIRACY and PAY in restitution for the amount of downloads that resulted from them putting it on the net.
Also, to go 1 step further. A one (1) [uno, single] time activation. Once you activate it, if you change comptuers, unfortunately, there would be a $10 service fee to get a NEW code. ------ yes, this will cut down DRASTICALLY in the number of products being sold to begin with, but in the long run, I ask you.. "Would you be willing to spend the extra $10 once your activation has been confirmed that it is YOU and you are not claiming to be someone else to get that Agusta Westland 109 back on your drive after a Harddrive crash???"
Couple all 3 together, and it would be a big dent in the piracy, but unfortunately drive the price of the product up from say $29.95 for the ND AW109 to $59.95 + $10/reactivation.
If you REALLY want that ND AW109, i am sure that you would find a way to come up with the $59.95. ... i mean, look at how much you are going to pay for ORBX Pacific Northwest, Pacific Fjords, Northern Rocky Mountains, Cushman Meadows, Concrete, etc etc etc etc.... how much is all that worth?? $175-200???? What is $60 for a helo?
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This is why Pete is so supportive of freeware developers, they give totally selflessly for the pleasure of others.
I have no issue with payware developers, I've beta-tested for a fair few but having been involved with freeware products a lot more (as a tester as well as developing flight models for people) I can't express how much satisfaction I've got from seeing screenshots of kites other people have developed and I've helped make fly (I'm as artistic as a banana).
So hooray for freeware
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