sábado, 13 de março de 2010

Nik and Ryan - The Spokesmen

Some time has passed since my last post. Too much work these days.

Also and unfortunately, unless i would hire a private detective to get all the information for me its kinna difficult to find out the holes where these guys are in.

But here is what i found! :) Internet is really nice fingerprint.

RYAN J. BRIGGS

Are u fucking kidding? I was banned and kicked by a 19 year old dude? Click Ahaha!

Im 40 years old, enough to be ur father Ryan! You should threat with a lot more respect ppl that have been simming even before u beeing born!

This guy is (or was) recently in the Conifer High School at San Diego.
He's just a kid that really couldnt know more about customer relationship that a sheep in the mountain. Airsimmer knows who to hire...i guess in this matter a CV wouldnt matter has they were probably after young virgin dudes in the reality of business that would work for a couple of bucks.

Hi5 -> CLICK
Facebook -> CLICK

NIKOLAI EFIMOV

Ok.

Nik is kinna like a ghost right now at the Airsimmer Forum.

The only two places we can see him today over there is in the "About Us" list and also in the bottom bar where sometimes he shows up as active but for an unknown reason he fails to write... maybe he just lost his two hands recently... or maybe and lookin at his FaceBook he is "Looking for a proper job !".

From Twitter we can also see that he is at the York University '10 in
Business Admin. & Management so i see why Nik had a much more mature approach
to the all customer relationship than Ryan has. This guy actually knows something about it and he also is a lot closer to Zoya as he is currently living in L.A.

I really dont know what happened with Nik but he might just have realized from the inside that the project wasnt going anyhere and he decided to leave or just to be distant from the all thing.

Facebook -> CLICK

quinta-feira, 4 de março de 2010

Zoya Spivakovsky - The CEO

Ok... in my next messages and while we wait (maybe indefinately) for a SP2 i will try to find out who the hell are these folks using publicly available info!

Today i start with the leader and CEO: Zoya Spivarkovsky

For starters she is a casting director in Hollywood.
She chooses who gets the part and who doesnt in some not so well know productions.

Here she is: IMDB
More: American Movie in Russian

She is also a translator (?!?) -> CLICK

And she moves a lootttt from place to place:
LOL! 6 adresses in CA?

From the Airsimmer site:

Zoya Spivakovsky was born in Moscow, USSR.
She earned her undergraduate degree in English


I told you she didnt know anything about doing FS Addons. She is in this
because these folks need someone to put the money and a company to make it
more beliveable - OysterBay International, Inc?

at Columbia University and went on to pursue graduate
studies at the Moscow Graduate Director’s Program at
Moscow State Film School, where she studied under the
renowned Russian filmmakers Vladimir Motil and Oscar-winner
Vladimir Menshov. She has worked in both film and television
as a producer, production coordinator, script supervisor,
and post-production supervisor.


mmmm... in production..u mean CASTING... right?...
I dont know how much of this stuff is real, but as i didnt find
almost anything where Zoya was actually a supervisor, i must say
that this little text is highly overrated about Mrs.Zoya curriculum
as everything in Airsimmer...OF COURSE!..lol


In 2003, Ms. Spivakovsky launched Oyster Bay Media International,
a Los-Angeles-based company dedicated to developing
and producing high-quality entertainment products.


So i guess this all endeavor has 7 years!!!!
They probably started on C++!!...lolol...for it to be taking so long!

If you want to find out more about Zoya's company and maybe pay them a visit to see what are the (new) developments:
About OysterBay International

Also i find this part very amusing about the company profile:

Oyster Bay Media International, Inc is a private company categorized under Computer Services and located in West Hollywood, CA. Our records show it was established in 2003 and incorporated in California. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $110,000 and employs a staff of approximately 1.

Are u fuckin serious????

annual revenue of $110.000 ????? 1 employee = Zoya ?...

This must be a joke! :D


Ms. Spivakovsky is in charge of all of the financial,
administrative and legal aspects of the AirSimmer Project.


For sure... and also in charge of the lousy communication and raising expectations/promoting an unfinished thing!

terça-feira, 2 de março de 2010

Find Wal...err.. Service Pack2!

So where is it?

As usual one more unthruth (lol!) to add to the basket!

It will probably be released in a near future (right before the Aerosoft plane release) but mark my words:

It will not be even close to what you are expecting!
Since they received their money their velocity of development has decreased drasticly.
My guess is that their team isnt there anymore and all the work is probably beeing made by ONE guy part-time...dont forget... the more ppl u have the more money u have to divide...

It will probably make some things better but other things worse and i bet that the main control problems with the autopilot will not be fixed and also the strange behaviors when the route is inserted. These are all very complex problems that sometimes need a brand-new structure to be solved without ruining other things and that can only be done with a full team working on the project. Just take a look at PMDG!!! They are an example of what is needed to do a quality addon.

About the Where's Wally thingy... just read this:

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Dear Mr. Rizzo,

We will be delighted to answer all your question. If you could kindly wait until this weekend, however, as this is a rather busy week for us with a great new patch for Basic to be released shortly.

I will get back to you by next Monday with our response.

Many thanks for your interest in our project!

Best wishes,
Zoya Spivakovsky
------------------------------------
Source: http://forum.flusiforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=41&p=69862

This was the reason why Patrick Rizzo from FlugSimulation made public that an update would be released for the Airsimmer plane in the last week.

I also find quite amusing that Zoya only shows up when she feels the smell of the money! mmm!... why? The german market of flight simulation is one of the biggest in Europe, maybe even in the World... they have a large consuming power and also have a large flightsim community = MONEY! :D

Of course Zoya couldnt leave this question unanswered and one more time... there she is... raising the f*ckin expectations again!..."this is a rather busy week for us with a great new patch for Basic to be released shortly." ?????!!!!!????

Dang this woman knows how to SELL! Maybe she worked before in some car store... or works professionaly on selling things that arent worth half of what she says they are. In Hollywood this is common practice..lol! :D

Once more same tactics:

- No compromise as Zoya doesnt actually say that a new patch will be released and when it will happen;
- Same lame excuses to show up and actually answer some real questions;
- And once more raising the expectations in order to fool some more simmers into buying their buggy and unfinished product.

When they release the SP2 (if they ever will) just look for the publicity they will make about it, and how fantastic and wonderful their product will be and compare it with what the actual customers say! You will see the light like i did!

What will they say now to Rizzo?

Oh.. err... we found some issues and we can't release it yet!
Suuuuure !!!... maybe there isnt anything signficative to release and Airsimmer is buying time with all this talk to keep customers from changing to FSX and run away to Aerosoft.

Only someone inside that organization or that was inside, can truly and in a very objective way say what is going on, but cleary nothing good can come from it.

The secrets... the lies.... all the post wiping and a lot of other negative things are really destroying what remains of Airsimmer.

When Aerosoft or PMDG state that the market for this good addons for FS9 is decreasing by the minutre they are quite right. If the 737 NGX is out before the Advanced Version of Airsimmer they can say goodbye to any profit they were trying to make.

Time will tell if what i say here is right or wrong but one thing u can be sure... they are digging their own grave.

segunda-feira, 1 de março de 2010

Banned!

Well... i guess it was already time for Ryan to kick another customer in the balls.

So why did i got banned? Obviously because i started this blog and made a page with a big title called "Airsimmer Sucks!"... ahahah!!!... i really dont care a little about it. I will register another account as easily as i was banned.

Voices like mine and others are to be shut down at the very first signal of unsatisfaction.
Im not even gonna talk about the several messages that end up in support forum hidden from the public view or the several complaints that are erased in a daily basis by the monkeys...

Before beeing banned, i was MUTED for ONE week by asking three simple questions:

1. Why isnt there a schedule for the update like it happened for the SP1?

2. What are the difficulties that the developers are encountering for this to be taking so long?

3. What are the fixes already made since the last update?

Three simple questions i made that noone in that company could answer and didnt even bother to do it. I also said that if these 3 questions weren't answered the credibility of the all project would be at stake and i would make a formal complaint at all the US Consumer Defence organizations pointing OysterBay International and Zoya as responsible by this situation.

For me this was the last drop in a cup full of water... how is it possible that a professional company who SELLS an unfinished product isnt even able to show in a very transparent and clear way what it is doing to fix the buggy product they sell?

Aproximately 20 days after their first release this message was posted in the Support Forum:

"ALL BUGS WILL BE FIXED BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR"

This had a very clear objective, to keep customers from refunding!
So what has been fixed? Almost none of the most critical bugs and yet these guys still bare to say that now they wont give dates because of high expectations that they kept raising with the very objective of selling a product.

Just wait for this next SP2 (if there will be one!! Lol..) and see them raising expectations again!

This is why i say:

Dont buy their product till all the bugs are sorted out!

Pay special attention to the CUSTOMER COMMENTS (at least the ones that they dont wipe out) because these folks at Airsimmer are very good LIERS.

I personally wont support them anymore because i think that they are greedy and act like a bunch gangsters. For me they should just be banned from the FSAddon scene. We dont need this kind of ppl making products to our community, no matter, if it comes out to be 100% real and perfect.

They will always come up with some way to make more money, be it by not providing an upgrade to the Advanced Version or from other holes in their offer.

The main interest of the people that are ahead of this organization is to make money... Zoya doesnt a clue on how to make it... Vasilius seems to be too much busy to actually program something... and the only guy that actually loved the Airbus is missing for quite some time - Nik!

Keep your eyes wide open ppl!