Maybe, but my impression is that we have to live with illegal or at least moral despicable behaviour because of people with a attitude like you.

btw, can you tell me the price of a ready to use head-tracking-solution thats NOT coming from your imagination?

You don't seem to understand the difference between a massive worldwide corporation with a huge mass market and a company that makes head-trackers for a far far smaller market, and their respective purchasing abilities.
I wouldn't be surprised to discover that M$ makes a higher net profit on their devices just because of their buying power, and the kudos that being a supplier to M$ brings. Put it this way: if you were CEO of a chip-making firm and you went to a bank to raise some capital, which contract would you rather have in your back pocket; one from a firm called Naturalpoint or one from the corporation called Microsoft?
I see people running off figures like tens of thousands - big deal. M$ aren't even going to think about it unless the market is in the millions.
As for the idea that making 50% profit on an item is overpricing - what planet are you living on? Take a look around you, at your electronic devices, your furniture, even the clothes you are wearing. Don't you know that 50% is the basic mark-up for all retail items sold? Get real...

Funniest post ever!

If you built the "I'm not a complet idiot and can buy a PS3eye/Wiimote, plug it in a PC, and sold some IR leds in some kind of suport and fix it in one headset", the NORMAL price will be less than $50... And with 100-120FPS... :cool:

This topic can't be taken serious with this kind of "defenders" of NP hardware...

Clothes is a good point.

The most expensive, super high quality T-shirt on planet, is $2(!) wholesale, yet it is unlikely you'll ever find this quality in store.
Standard quality for western countries is ~$1.

Percentage:
We had items in the shop with a net profit of 90%.
That's not cost times 1.9, but cost times 10. Plus tax and CC commission.
WTF?!
We must be billionaires!
Really?
It's a cycle tube, cost is 85cent landed, retails for $10.
For those $9 you have to ship from the warehouse to the store, unpack and put in the shelve, answer stupid questions(is it the right size?), it enter into the system and cash it. Sure, there is still some profit left, no problem.

But:
We only sold 2k pcs of them per anno, so it's still only 20k which is more like peanuts. We could have sold them for $20 and would still sell 1800.
On the other hand if we sold them for $5 we could possibly increase sales to 2.5 units.
Do the math.


Another example?
You can sell one lot(50pcs) of $2000 bikes, ready to use/warranty/1st service incl. with a margin of 25%, or even less, as you get $500 a pop.
You CAN NOT do the same wit a $500 bicycle.
Assembly and service cost stay the same.
And in this example we don't even have R&D...

You could as well say:

"if you're not a complete idiot, you can just download your favorite OS, run the hack and save $300".

Feel free to replace OS with: mp3, movie or any software of you choice.

Adonys... Euro?? you forgot shipping and taxes

Still with this crap of "hack"?

Pathetic.

By the way, Bill Gates don't bother if a lot of "poor" individual users "hack" his OS... It's the funniest thing too!!!

Keeep saying "HACK"! It's funny!

Amusing thread.

Personally after working all day in IT support and maintenance I much prefer to just pay a few dollars to get something that works rather than build my own head tracker.

I did try building my own rudder pedals once and it was seriously not worth the effort.

However if other people enjoy building their own pedal powered PC or homemade head tracker who am I to oppose it. Its also possible some people may have trouble justifying the cost of a trackIr with the wife or girlfriend.

Either way I see no reason not to allow access to the free interface for those people keen enough (or financially challenged enough) to build their own.

that's as taken for granted, Galway... and no-one is arguing against an alternative which is free of relying on another's copyrighted product to work being included.
Most however use the hack option within Freetrack to hack NP's software... even with games that have access made open to alternative headtrackers (FSX/ ArmAII for instance), most of the users pass over those options in favour of the NP software hack because of the better results.

Tut, Tut, naughty boy, using such language.....must I remind you to at least try and answer my simple question?



QUESTION...........Why have NP been unable to claim damages or prevent the use of their original DLL against, or by, 3rd party developers?

I seem to be having De ja Views (excuse the pun), haven't I asked this before?


.....................and never get an answer.....I wonder why that is?