Why? Do we want developers to stop this pracise? I don’t understand why?
It wasn’t an analogy.
It was a suggestion that the navigation radio code is interlinked with the rest of the radio code… Just offering a possible explanation as to why the radio units are not in the EA release.
I’m one of those.
I remember how many games were released unfinished and perhaps patched or abandoned. I prefer the EA and continuous development business model.
I also remember how eager many of us were to get in on the testing teams…
Do we want them to? I mean, is it at all possible to continue development of a sandbox software, like DCS, and finish anything…? New development requires changes to the old code and consequently old modules. We would have to go back to the era of study sims where you bought an F-16 sim. It was situated in one, perhaps two, areas of operation. This would be updated once or more and then finished and abandoned. The development team would then move on to the next study sim, meeting new economical risks.
With the present business model, at least the income keeps on flowing… I actually doubt we’d see all these new modules if the developer would have to restart development everytime. The cost would simply be too high.
Now, I don’t think the EA business model is ideal. But I think it’s realistic and in fact the best model for the development of our hobby.