In those 35 years I have been able to run the sim without the worry that the autopilot would not work. Common and frequent CTDs were also fixed before release. CTD’s used to be THE huge deal to developers, with msfs its just another normal day. Stated features were also fully included on release, not so with msfs. A product that requires a plethora of workarounds and customer sacrifices/compromises…its not right. If this was early access at a reduced price, it would be an educated, fair, and moral choice on the purchase, or choice to be on a “journey”.
Graphical beauty is meaningless when I cant fly to/from MPTO, or rely on the AI to behave at least somewhat normally, or have an ATC that makes just a little common sense, or have the real weather function consistently,…and on and on. Graphical beauty here is only good for screenshots…this products main focus at this juncture; fooled tons of people, who mostly would like to get a refund but most cannot.
This thread and likely thousands of others just like it, along with the mostly 1 star reviews on the Windows Store are proof that msfs falls way too short for something that has been released. Never in 35 years of computing has anything that should have had promise (according to the hype), been such a blunder, and it continues to be a blunder. Perhaps in 5-10 years it may have hope, but a possible WW III could smash that hope and make covid look like fun. So who cares about a journey until its finished; we have no control over anything at all anyway. This journey should have been completed on Aug 18 2020…the CTD’s continue…its always the customers fault…its just not right.