Payware Scenarios

[valleyforge]

Hi,

I don't know if anyone has seen these but if you are interested i think for the money they look pretty good in my opinion,

https://www.railworksscenarios.com/

Cheers,

Roger.

[OldProf]

Valleyforge: have you actually played any of these scenarios?

In my experience, they offer far more problems than pleasures. I've started a couple of other threads about them, which can be found by a search for my posts.

[dazzharvey]

https://www.railworksscenarios.com/secmlsleeper

I made this already and posted it on UKTS a couple of months back - to me it doesn't seem right somehow

[dazzharvey]

Shameless plug for my free version

http://members.uktrainsim.com/filelib-i ... leid=28820

http://members.uktrainsim.com/filelib-i ... leid=28635

[PapaXpress]

... to me it doesn't seem right somehow

I'm not following you. What do you mean?

[dazzharvey]

The description of theirs just sounds very similar to the one i posted is all, without actually checking it out (paying for it), I won't know.

[djscuba]

It couldn't just happen to be that more than 1 person thought of the idea. Looking at their facebook, it seems someone requested it so they made it. I do hope your not going to accuse them of re uploading yours without actually trying it? I like this website. I have a few scenario packs from them. Never had a problem. They really listen to customer comments and improve based on them. I mainly like buying from these guys as you just simply buy and play. The problem with the stuff on UKTS is your have to download 100 extra things to get 1 wee scenario to work! That's why I hardy use UKTS. I'd rather pay to get everything in one package.

[PapaXpress]

djscuba, there has been a small history of this happening before with another payware provider, so this is not unfounded.

[Redferne]

I would say that you can't put all payware scenario vendors in the same bucket.

Everyone would want their paid scenarios to work flawlessly out of the box, but unfortunately that is just not the way things work most of the times these days and that goes beyond Railworks. How many PC games have to release patches to fix bugs? How many Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 games require updates? And why do hardware manufacturers offer firmware updates?

Even if these publishers spent forever trying to track down bugs, they would not only never release a product but also never find all of the bugs. People play scenarios differently and therefore my find a bug that was never seen before just as different combinations of hardware may cause different performance issues.

One should not just a provider based on bugs, but rather, how responsive is that provider to correcting the issues reporting and listening to end user feedback. If you submit a bug and they fix it in a very short period of time and possibly include other suggestions provided then they have not only fixed the product to be as advertised, but have also improved it as well. This makes for a better product for not just a single buyer, but all buyers.

If however we have people putting out bad scenarios and then offering no support, well that is a different story and they should have warnings put out to give other potential buyers caution.

My two cents...

[dazzharvey]

I wasn't accusing anyone of anything, if i've commited a crime then at worst is a shameful plug to my links.