Offline Wx
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Damian, I'm sorry to say so, but I think it's a shame. We've paid for that software -ASv6, ASA as well as ASE- and now it's completely worthless in one fell swoop.
You saw this with some other developers of payware software in the past , not respectful and simply rude to their once so much appreciated customers. Never expected HiFi sim becoming one of those.
Very bad.
Tom
You saw this with some other developers of payware software in the past , not respectful and simply rude to their once so much appreciated customers. Never expected HiFi sim becoming one of those.
Very bad.
Tom
I understand. It's a darn shame.
We did not anticipate that we would lose the vast majority of the market and our sales volume (to MSFS2020 with their blocking on weather API), nor the other major challenges we are facing, and now we are doing our best to stay in business in order to support products which have been released more recently (i.e. within the past 13 years). Our monetization strategy for our very modest and small business involves new products and users who purchase them, and not having virtually any new purchases while supporting complex high-availability network weather systems for very old products results in this situation. If you do not feel that you received enough value for your $20-40 spent over xx years while receiving our full support and network resources, then I regret that and regret that we could not continue to subject ourselves to significant active user network costs for these very old products without any compensation. We did want to try subscription-based at one point, to address the ongoing cost issue, but user feedback was not amenable to it. If we knew what we would face we would have made different decisions despite that.
Moving forward, if we receive enough feedback indicating a willingness to pay a fee to continue accessing such services to make it viable, we would consider it.
Outside of that, we will have to continue moving forward the best we can, supporting products that we've sold within the past decade.
We did not anticipate that we would lose the vast majority of the market and our sales volume (to MSFS2020 with their blocking on weather API), nor the other major challenges we are facing, and now we are doing our best to stay in business in order to support products which have been released more recently (i.e. within the past 13 years). Our monetization strategy for our very modest and small business involves new products and users who purchase them, and not having virtually any new purchases while supporting complex high-availability network weather systems for very old products results in this situation. If you do not feel that you received enough value for your $20-40 spent over xx years while receiving our full support and network resources, then I regret that and regret that we could not continue to subject ourselves to significant active user network costs for these very old products without any compensation. We did want to try subscription-based at one point, to address the ongoing cost issue, but user feedback was not amenable to it. If we knew what we would face we would have made different decisions despite that.
Moving forward, if we receive enough feedback indicating a willingness to pay a fee to continue accessing such services to make it viable, we would consider it.
Outside of that, we will have to continue moving forward the best we can, supporting products that we've sold within the past decade.
Damian, I wonder if there is another option for users of FS9 and ASE. I saved a lot of my (static) weather downloads during the last years in the [date_time.wx] format from which ASE reads the weather info. It concerns about 290 days in the period of may 2014 until april 04, 2023. The file is 195 Mb. I don't know who's the owner of the rights of these data, Hifisimtech or the original suppliers of these weather data. If it is Hifisimtech, would it be an idea to make this file available for download either on this site or by uploading it to Avsim.com or Flightsim.com so that users of ASE and FS9 still are able to use at least earlier weather data in ASE ?
In case the best option is uploading to Avsim and/or Flightsim, and Hifisimtech is the owner of the rights, I need your permission to upload this file.
Please let me know.
Regards,
Tom
In case the best option is uploading to Avsim and/or Flightsim, and Hifisimtech is the owner of the rights, I need your permission to upload this file.
Please let me know.
Regards,
Tom
This is approved for this specific file and contents described, approval subject to change. Thanks Tom.