maybe not latest news, but I read this snippet today on www.gamesmania.com
German:
Nach der bernahme des renommierten Joystickherstellers Thrustmaster durch
Guillemot gaben die neuen Besitzer jetzt bekannt, das der bisher legend?re
Thrustmaster-Service vorerst deutlich reduziert wird.
Thrustmaster machte sich vor allem bei Simulationsfreunden beliebt, da der
Hersteller auch nach Ablauf der einj?hrigen Garantiezeit fr seine
High-End-Joysticks und -Lenkr?der kostenlos Ersatzteile wie Potentiometer,
Federn, Joystickkn?pfe etc. an seine Kunden versendete - angesichts der
zahlreichen Probleme bei Thrustmasters Qualit?tsicherung ein h?ufig in
Anspruch genommener Service. Damit ist vorerst Schlu?. Guillemot entschied
sich, aus Knappheit an Ersatzteilen nur noch solche Kunden zu
bercksichtigen, deren einj?hrige Garantiezeit noch nicht abgelaufen ist.
Man suche aber nach L?sungen fr die Zukunft und wolle auch weiterhin
Produkte in Thrustmaster-Tradition herstellen, so Guillemot.
Translated into english:
After taking over Thrustmaster Guillemot has declared that the legendary
Thrustmaster-support has to be reduced drastically.
Thrustmaster has gained tremendous popularity with sim-players worldwide by
sending replacement parts for defect products even after the warranty
period - a service that was used regularly because of the sometimes fragile
products due to problems with quality assurance.
This will end now. Guillemot decided to support the products only during the
one-year warranty (because of a shortage of replacement parts). However,
Guillemot assured they were searching for solutions to carry on the great
Thrustmaster tradition...
I won't comment further on this except that this, unfortunately, had to be
expected...
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:43:58 +0200, "Alexander Marx"
>I won't comment further on this except that this, unfortunately, had to be
>expected...
Sigh... Anyone know where I can BUY steering potentiometers
for my GP1?
Martin
Nigel Mansell RIP!
> maybe not latest news, but I read this snippet today on www.gamesmania.com
[snip]
Hmm, and this was one of the main reasons that we were prepared to pay the
extra money for Thrustmaster products. I guess I won't do that again now. It
is a sad decision for me though, as I still consider their flight gear top of
the line.
Thank you Pre-guillemot Thrustmaster for the years that has been.
Cheers,
/ft
