The crew here is not really asking for a sandbox mode.
You don’t start a sandbox game and everything is unlocked up front.
And that is what this thread is proposing that all mechanics and content be unlocked and call it “sandbox mode”.
They call it an ‘Option’, knowing fully well that if you implement this option, you destroy the core design of the Career Mode. If you remove the UNIQUE aspects of the Career Mode and put them in Free Flight…you remove the incentive to play Career Mode.
Then they say well if it removes the incentive to play Career Mode, then career mode must not be good.
An illogical argument along the line of … If we gut you and you bleed out and die, it’s your fault, you must have not been a good human.
Does anyone really think that the massive amounts of money that XBox Studio has put into MSFS is going to be profitable just as a PC simulator?
The reason it was taken off the shelf and developed in the first place was to bring it to the XBox user and Game Pass user base, which is where it can be profitable. Those users are Gamers…not simulation nerds. If there is no compelling Game play, there is no incentive for them to play MSFS…they will be Tourists and move on.