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It's usability week!

The last couple of weeks have been a stressful time for the team and me. Everybody was working towards the launch of the first international server and basically put aside most other tasks that need to be taken care of. Now that it has been 3 days since the extremely smooth start of Nicosia we finally find the time to take a look at other things again. The first thing that came to my mind on monday was usability. A friend of mine who had never played AirlineSim before took a brief look at the game and his first impression was that it was extremely difficult for a new player to find his way into the game. It's simple things that make it difficult: realizing that you need to have an airline to open a branch office, knowing that your airline request has to be screened by a member of our support team, entering the correct airport codes when requesting it and getting the correct error message if you don't. Most of these issues are mentioned somewhere in the tutorial or in the game itself, some aren't. Either way, all these tiny issues make it difficult to get started quickly and easily and might scare off any new player who's not a die-hard aviation geek.

New payment methods

Today we were finally able to activate our payment provider for Visa,

International launch date

Today we have decided on a relase date for our very first international

More than pushing a button

The fact that our new portal has launched successfully represents the first finished step on our roadmap to an international version of AirlineSim. Although this was a lot of work we are certainly far from finished. By giving you a brief insight into the things ahead of us, I would like to open our new "From the Hangar" blog, a place where we will try to show you as many aspects of AirlineSim's "backstage area" as possible and to keep you informed about current developments. Please don't hesitate to leave a comment and tell us what you think!

Welcome to AirlineSim...in English!

We've been working long nights for many weeks to make it possible: The launch of our first ever international website! Although AirlineSim, a realistic and challenging aviation simulation, has been running for over 7 years in German, it went more or less unnoticed by the crowd of English-speaking aviation and business game enthusiasts around the world. This finally comes to an end today!