Originally posted by FOGOLD
Personally, I am beginning to think the whole Cougar thing is going to go belly up soon anyway.
Thrustmaster seem less than interested (no link to support any more),
Cougar World is under threat,
people can't seem to get spare parts that are wearing out (yes wearing out!).
Well, I agree that maybe
2.02 introduced more - and more serious
- issues than it (should have
) solved,
but AFAIK Guillemot's support-address and the link to it still is available
(though with a semicolon at the end that's gotta be removed manually
if you want your mail to reach
that recipient;
note and mind, though, that I say "available",
which doesn't necessarily imply that you'd get or could expect any reply
)...
Cougar World is another matter,
though I gotta admit that I don't get my head around the current situation anyway:
if you ask for help in TM's official forum they advise you to go to Cougar World
(read: their forum isn't meant to provide support anyway,
and their modeators don't have the slightest idea or technical understanding anyway),
with Cougar World stating that it's not in any way "official" or related to TM -
IMHO Guillemot / TM should gladly host CW to say THX for hiding their incompetence...
As for the quality of the used components...
well, I do remember that the 1st ones to even dare wonder
about obviously misaligned switches, spiky pots or bad soldering and loose cables
happened to get flamed and burned on that very instant -
in the meantime, TM and the Cougar-crew have admitted that there
are issues...
well, it might be a lil' too much asked to
fix 'em
as long as you can easily
fix 'em yourself
via any combination of the various mods available
for a reasonable
price: only around
twice as much as a stock Cougar ,
so why should anybody really expect TM to fix it for
free?
Oh, you've
paid for it? Yep, that's right: you already
did!
Strange that some users really should expect TM to handle it any different than MS...
Don't get me wrong:
IMHO the Cougar still and nevertheless is the best stick available,
but I do expect TM to
fix known issues, flaws and bugs -
the current situation leaves me "not amused",
and I'm seriously considering to leave CW as soon as I'll have finished my current files
(WB3 and AH as some sort of "Good Bye and drop dead but you won't fool me any further!", if you like...)!
