Gents-
We are concerned that each time we post some news about our products, a number of individuals become confused about what will and what will not happen in the future, in what order, and how long it will take. These folks, while good-natured, well-meaning and nice-hearted, start rumors which are almost always unsubstantiated and based only on their personal beliefs. Those rumors, though, have a tendency, to spread like wildfire, mostly because (I would guess) people are eager to take any new "information" without checking into its validity first.
One such particular rumor is that we're going to take ages after the FSX release to produce the equivalent P3D version - note: NOT the professional version, but simply the version that behaves identically to FSX, simply under a different platform (P3D).
This is simply not true.
I will not elaborate further on details until we have had time to work them out, but at this point, our developers have been working on code that runs on P3D and a release on that platform will NOT take forever after the FSX version to come out.
I appreciate that everyone is very anxious to get the A320-X in their hands - it's been a long time in development, that's true, and I'll even explain in a subsequent post (that I've been writing while all our other developers are asleep - which isn't a very large window of time in the day, given our geographical diversity) all the difficulties we've faced, but also all the amazing features that we've added, so I think it might be hard to find a single individual on this planet more anxious to release the A320-X than myself
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So - to reiterate - the roadmap, as it stands right now, in very brief bullet points:
- Early Adopter release on FSX (to a number of customers that we'll be "inviting" as Early Adopters) on FSX so we can offer correct and productive customer support and iron out any problems with installation our beta testing team might have missed
- General release on FSX
- Early Adopter release on P3D (same deal as with FSX)
- General release on P3D
- Continuous subsequent releases on both platforms with added features and improvements
- Professional version release on P3D (ONLY)
This is what we believe is the best way to properly be in a position to support our customers and keep everyone satisfied that we're providing a top notch, top quality product that we'll keep improving for years to come. After all, we're geared for a world-first: Simulation of an A320, with all its nuances, all its quirks, in a way that nobody's done it before...
Thank you for your understanding and your continued support all these years!