Love that plane, one of my favorites. What is the scenery? FTX? GEX?

Anxyous wrote on Oct 13^th, 2008 at 2:49pm:


Spot on 

you will find me in Aussie aerospace for a few months to come still 

krigl wrote on Oct 13^th, 2008 at 5:29pm:


Thanx  Don't like sounding like a rebel but things must be said the way they are 

Honestly, this should be close to release else they will be stabbing themselfs in the back in my opinion. Locking that thread was the last straw, I wont go back there till its release.

These guys are just toying with us imo.

I decided to wait till the end of the month otherwise I might as well buy FEX, I heard their HD cloud download is spectacular.

ShaneG wrote on Oct 14^th, 2008 at 5:43am:


Thanx for the support there bud 

J. wrote on Oct 14^th, 2008 at 1:26pm:



But it's one thing to tell us it's gonna be a while, and another to keep advertising, "IMMEDIATE RELEASE" for the past year and a half...

BFMF wrote on Oct 14^th, 2008 at 11:02pm:


Not quite - it's been about a year, and 'coming soon' was on their site from maybe March.... but I remember on first seeing their pics last October, and before there was any talk of a weather engine or flight planner, thinking naively that 'it looks great, they are posting promo shots, so it must be nearly ready for release'. I thought it would be definitely out for Xmas 07, but Tim was evasive about this and said, just like now, they can't give a specific date but it won't be long.

What I think happened is that they severely underestimated the nightmare of programming the weather engine, and there was maybe some feature creep. It would have made much more financial sense to release it at Xmas as a textures-only product like Flight Environment - many many people would have bought it. Then work on a new product - Rex PRO - with more textures and the planner, weather engine, toaster and everything else... and sell it with a discount to existing customers. Or even without the discount. 

It's not about bringing out a bug-free product taking time, and unreasonable impatience from 'immature people' as so often their supporters make it out to be. It's about promoting the product long before it was ready, keeping the idea alive that it's coming soon and generally not communicating with potential customers that actually it's still a long way off - with the result, intentional or not (who can say?), of stringing people along and stopping them from buying competitors products.  

I'd like to stress this is my PERSONAL OPINION as a simmer, screenshooter and professional soap-boxer, not as a rep. of this site.  

hang on, so your bashing REX and you say it looks awesome, but your against their marketing idea, when i see it as it was probably going to be out around when they first predicted, but then the 4096 res clouds came into play they had to be developed and a weather system and flight planner both of which seem some of the best. However beside all your bashing you still won't buy FEX even though it promises somethign similar and are pulling a similar stunt.

i think this thread has been hijacked