Simulator Central shopping basket case or basket cart?

VinnyBarb

*HRH in real life*
Is it just me where this is happening? I placed several "DISCOUNTED" items into my shopping basket on that web site and no matter what I do, the FULL price is always shown in the shopping basket, right up to the committing to buy with PayPal button. Is there a "discount code" or similar one needs to use to get the discounted price which I understood is going to be good until the 27th of this month? As I am NOT buying or committing if the right price is not shown or I and others will be the bunny paying the normal price for these.



If one only possibly gets the discount price shown AFTER one commits him/herself to buy, then this is BL**DY STUPID, as one has to commit oneself first not knowing IF this is indeed happening with the discount price. As said, I was not game enough to commit myself.

Also, while complaining, why the hell is the first page opening up showing all stuff with NO discounted prices? If you indeed have a sale on at the moment, these items on that page MUST show the discounted price only, to revert back to the original priced pages with normal prices showing only AFTER the sale. This is COMMON SENSE and will lead only to frustrations IF one should indeed buy from that page with no discount shown and finding out later there was a discount at the time for the same item bought.



Check the price of the Mega Heritage pack in that picture. It is shown as $69.90.

Yet when clicking on "Train Simulator" or some other pages, the discounted prices are shown, so why not on the first page. Or is it really that hard to rename one web page to show the correct price? Others might only buy of the first web page shown or is that the intention to be like that to possibly fool some people not knowing into buying from there?



Check the price of the Mega Heritage pack. It is shown as $17.48 there. Yet, when clicking in this web page the Shopping Cart to check, you get this:



With the full price showing on ALL items in the Shopping Cart.

Why the blazes doesn't the Shopping Cart page open on a SEPARATE web page instead of exchanging with the same page one is looking at to buy from? One needs to toggle back and forth to look for further bargains and checking the shopping cart. I know what you are going to say, use the right mouse button to open the Shopping Cart in a new window. This unfortunately does NOT work with Simulator Central and with FireFox. Why not?

It still beats me why the powers that be DO NOT run trials with their new web site BEFORE letting it lose on us, ANY webmaster worth his/her salt does this trial running to make sure all is as it should be. So why not N3V Games? The trial of their web site is us, we are the guinea pigs to do their trial and getting frustrated trying to use it. Come on N3V Games, lift your game or you will be seen as a Micky Mouse web creator.

On another note, I praise the new look and colours of the new web site, despite some others viewing this as negative. I guess this is me and that is why we all have different tastes. I once created a similar looking web site in the past myself.

My observations

VinnyBarb
 
Fair enough BUT one of my comments above still stands:

It still beats me why the powers that be DO NOT run trials with their new web site BEFORE letting it lose on us, ANY webmaster worth his/her salt does this trial running to make sure all is as it should be. So why not N3V Games?

As this would have been the first thing they will have noticed. N3V Games might be good at creating Train Sims but Web Creating is a different matter as can be clearly seen.

Heads would roll if I were in charge or at the very least, the person responsible for this "male chicken" up should be hang by his jewels (or ornaments) until he stops laughing. That is if that person is a male :p.

VinnyBarb
 
Fair enough BUT one of my comments above still stands:



As this would have been the first thing they will have noticed. N3V Games might be good at creating Train Sims but Web Creating is a different matter as can be clearly seen.

Heads would roll if I were in charge or at the very least, the person responsible for this "male chicken" up should be hang by his jewels (or ornaments) until he stops laughing. That is if that person is a male :p.

VinnyBarb

Since I have my own business website, which I designed by myself by the way, I agree with you. Whoever designed the site apparently had no interest in proof reading and testing it before he or she published it which is ridiculous in my opinion.
 
I pretty much said that about N3V testing things properly on the British Trainz Forum a bit earlier on. This weeks occurrences are not exactly doing much for the confidence factor.

Wonder who's getting turfed out of bed early to sort it out?
 
This is why normalizing the database is required. Holding redundant data creates opportunities for index collisions. I agree with all other post, but this isn't the fault of the designer, as much as it is the programmer. I'm pretty sure NV3 keeps those departments separate, as most companies do.

Designers design...
Programmers make the bells ding, and the whistles whistle...
 
This is why normalizing the database is required. Holding redundant data creates opportunities for index collisions. I agree with all other post, but this isn't the fault of the designer, as much as it is the programmer. I'm pretty sure NV3 keeps those departments separate, as most companies do.

Designers design...
Programmers make the bells ding, and the whistles whistle...

Jerry,

This is true in big companies, but with smaller ones like I used to work at the network administrator takes care of website updates, designs, server support and upgrades, desktop support, and possibly any other task thrown at them by their manager or CEO. In most cases it's because it's computer related the resident computer guy gets the chore.

John
 
I'm willing to give them six more days to straighten it out, after that unless they extend their sale they won't find me participating in it.
 
Well!! I can't even get their new 'shop' page to load from either the link provided or from Planet Auran page so I don't even know what's for sale?
 
Well!! I can't even get their new 'shop' page to load from either the link provided or from Planet Auran page so I don't even know what's for sale?

Trainz Simulator 2009: World Builder Edition $3.73
Trainz Simulator 2010: Engineers Edition $7.48
Trainz Simulator 12 - Boxed $12.48
Trainz Simulator 12 - Digital $12.48

Trainz DLC: Aerotrain $4.98
Trainz DLC: Blue Comet $4.98
Trainz DLC: BR Class 14 $4.98
Trainz DLC: Duchess $4.98
Trainz DLC: LMS Coronation Scot $4.98
Trainz DLC: PRR T1 - A Fleet of Modernism $4.98


Trainz Simulator - Classic Cabon City $4.98
Trainz Simulator - Murchison 2 $4.98
Trainz Simulator - Settle and Carlisle $4.98


BNSF/CN Pack $3.23
CSX Pack $3.23
CSX SD70MAC Pack $4.23
Mixed Loco Pack $3.73
NS Heritage Pack 1 $6.23
NS Heritage Pack 2 $6.23
NS Heritage Pack 3 $6.23
NS Heritage Pack 4 $6.23
NS Heritage Mega Pack $17.48
NW - NS Pack $3.73
PRR Pack $4.98
SD80MAC Pack $4.23
UP Pack $3.23
UP Heritage Pack $4.98
 
I repeat my question :

Can you gift games / DLCs from the new store ?

If not : Is it possible to send the email with the download link and the serial of the games / DLCs to another person ?
 
I repeat my question :

Can you gift games / DLCs from the new store ?

If not : Is it possible to send the email with the download link and the serial of the games / DLCs to another person ?

No answer because we don't know. If it doesn't say you can at the shop then I would presume at the moment no you can't.

Suggest start a new thread with your question as the title, it's likely to get missed in this one.
 
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