If I may comment on the Direction of the Sim here, from a flight simmer with more than 800Hours of msfs flight time logged
First of all, GREAT job to the Asobo team, with EVERYTHING you have done. I do believe, they have done a tremendous amount of work and they should be proud. At least I am proud of my favourite Sim.
Although I must say, since a long time I would prefer see them working on increasing the Sim Performance and Stability, fix the bugs (Like CTD on Dublin (EIDW)). Improving the deep features, such as Real World Weather. Improving the life of Third Party Developpers, we need them so bad because Asobo is not specialized in aircraft developpement, Airliners especially.
Don’t get me wrong, I know they’ve been working on it, but I feel it’s been perhaps a bit slow on this aspect. We will see them continously releasing aircraft, and so so many aircraft, World Updates etc, which I personnaly believe it’s particularly good for Casual Flight Simmer, they have a great choice of lightly created aircraft. But it’s also been continously in this direction.
I do think it’s Okay, but as a more hardcore flight simmer, logging around 5 to 10 hours of flight time every weeks in Airliners, flying for either Role Play career addon, or a Virtual Airline, I would really rather see them on making 3 party dev more happy and resourceful. Working on ressource optimization, CTDs, Sim stability, FPS increases, Quality of life upgrade in the sim (such as better tool bar menu for exemple), quicker load time.
To me this would make me happy.
Though, again don’t me wrong, I’m not unhappy with what they did, I just don’t personnaly find much value in these content. They can release 50 aircraft if they want, I may fly them for about 15 minutes that’s pretty much it.
Just look at the community Streamers, do you see them flying Spruce Groves, creating and executing flight with the DC-3, or Beaver ? They don’t, we don’t it does make the sim looks great in surface however. People seem them, and subscribe to them for seeing them flying PMDG 737s, Fenix A320, Cessna’s 414AW, Milviz, Kodiaks. 3 Party Dev require much more love, and therefore realism match with stability, CTDs (even if they’re way better on that now) are not realistic and are frustrating.
I feel like releasing so much content is about respecting a promise they made, but I do feel so much work is spent on content that has not much value compared to other things. Asobo, if you read this, I think you could lift your feet on the release pedal and can slow down on releasing all these content, you’ve done way more than anyone could ever expect. Just work to be the best host possible for creators, they’ll take care of adding great and loved aircraft, same thing for sceneries.
Plus, many of us invested a ton of money in 3rd party creations, but also hardware to enjoy the sim. Again the importance of being able to enjoy all these depends on the Sim’s stability and performance.