Hey I found a "hot spot", cool
Yes, I was lead designer for WB 2.7xxx, won PC mag online game of the year with that one. Was technical lead on WBIII, and yes do agree about it. Working on that project was one of the reason I move my company to RTP years ago.
Imagic went for full realism, more a sim then a game, took the fun out IMHO, but it was what people where asking for.
As for warranty, it applies to the Mark II, not Mark I.
The MarkII has a different motor, and frequency generation, which means people will start using fan controllers on it. Will likely go back up to a year, as soon as second trials finished with fan controllers.
We have yet another pump in trails as well, it will have 2-3 year warranty and be fan controller safe as we designed for them from the begining.
Thanks for thinking about me guys, not near any danger, going to south Iraq to solve a electronic temp control issue. Normally I have another engineer that handles this in the USA office, but he has just had a new baby and his wife is a little freaked out about him going to that area. Been in middle east many times, never had any problem.