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This is my feedback on the matter:
I donāt think its āhateā, but there is a sense of injustice. Where is XP, DCS, AF2, or P3D at E3? Any booths? No. Would they be welcome? No. Why? Because they are flight simulators more than they are games.
It took a graphical flying game to get the attention of NVidia and E3. But flight simmers are still waiting for MSFS to be a sim for flight simmers, and there is no solid indication that it will ever happen, just talk about how difficult it is and āplansā (2 years of empty talk so far) to make it a sim for simmers.
Flight simmers are not complaining about the most welcome āVFRā (loose term usage) qualities of MSFSā¦this was inevitable eventually, but at the expense of āIFRā (again loosely), so an Xbox version can succeed at E3? Priorities are clear.
If MSFS carried the tradition of being a flight sim 1st, and possibly a game to toy around with for the curious 2nd, then there would not be an Xbox version, and it certainly would not be featured at E3. Too much time to fix so many āIFRā basics/fundamentals would make an Xbox version not practicalā¦but no.
I wont dispute the fact that more customers could be good, flight simmers welcome gamers as new flight simmers. But gamers do not welcome flight simmers at all, if they did, there would not be any āhateā (injustice) at all.
There are still so many airports missing in MSFS but there is an Xbox version coming sooner than major airportsā¦a valid reason for what anybody would call āhateāā¦, this is called a flight simulator, right? And why does Working Title even have to exist? Because there are so many basic flaws, all because an Xbox version takes precedence. Donāt get me wrong I welcome 3rd parties, but not to fix basics. And that is what many of the 3rd parties are doing in the MSFS case, while an Xbox version is being developed.
We have to wait and see what comes of this Xbox version and how the development of the PC version continues.
I donāt hate gamers but gamers do hate me, I have lived this for decades.
I personally am enjoying MSFS well enough at the moment and I understand the ābusinessā aspect that MS/Asobo has to balance, but there is an injustice to flight simmers like it or not.
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aināt happening on June 15.
what makes you think that
What makes you think XP DCS,AF2 or P3D not games? I have used every single platform and taught I was an expert until I jumped in a real plane on my first day and fly you its like learning to hand fly from scratch. I donāt see how being flight simmers make us elite or special from gamers!
Microsoft has been in the flight simulator industry before the others even existed and Microsoft being a popular company its bound to have more attention.
The extra attention Microsoft gets is a good thing. Possibly stir an entire generation into the interest of Aviation and If couldnāt afford a PC I would be heading straight to the XBOX route.
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The FAA disagrees with you, so does Sportyās academy and many flight schools in the USA.
Hand flying in real life is so much easier than on a PC simulation. Just like driving a car in real life is easier than on a PC sim.
I donāt see how being gamers makes them elite or special from flight simmers either.
And like I have said already, we flight simmers are still waiting for hundreds if not thousands of airports that are still totally missing from MSFS. So my point of a lacking of extra attention for flight simmers is not a good thingā¦an injusticeā¦been going on for many many years, but gamers donāt have to be concerned about such things, theyāre even first in the flight sim realm now as well.
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Itās very simple in my book:
Flight Simulation is a genre of videogames. Like many other Simulation genres. Actually, most videogames simulato something to a certain extent.
IMHO, if you are not using any of the Flight Sims to officially train for your professional pilot career, you are playing a videogame.
I really have no idea why some people have problems admitting they are gaming.
Itās a normal past time hobby for people like many other things. Better than to just watch TV if you ask me.
A small part of people that play Flight Sims are even adding a Pilot Roleplay on top. Building Home Cockpit, wearing a Captainās Hat, talking to Vatsim and so on. All the power to them. Roleplaying is fun !
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My feedback:
I truly believe that the MSFS development team has excellent intentions. And like I said Iām enjoying MSFS for now, while we wait for fixes, advertised features, and any possible surprises.
There may be some commonalities between games and simulations, but no game simulates the whole earth to scale. The same is true for the likes of Space Engine, no game simulates the universe like it does. Both in a class all by themselves, both sold on Steam.
I understand the economics of the Xbox version, but it contributes to the reduction of realism that was progressing from the 80ās until about early to mid 2000ās. That is when graphics took precedence over realism and its getting worse year by yearā¦turning more into a game. Yes maybe more popular, but the line between game and sim is slowly being eliminated at a terrible cost to the flight simmer.
There is a distinct difference between flight simmers and gamers, they have their annual āE3ā shows, and flight simmers have their own annual shows. Never mixed in the past until MSFS. Gamers have not had to give up features for flight simmers, but flight simmers seem to have to give up features for gamers. So there is a distinction that should not be ignored, but it is, and very few see it.
If the Xbox version (or PBR, Ray Tracing, Shadows, etc.) did not affect realism there would be no problem. I mean the advancements in realism āback in the dayā did not affect the graphics advancements. There was a balanceā¦equal justice.
As usual flight simmers have to wait in stagnation, but gamers do not have to wait, games keep progressing with features and graphics balanced. Before long games will simulate planet size to scale and gamers can play a murderer or a thief with all the graphics and realism, while flight simmers may have some paper airplane models on a small island, but at least the trees will sway.
Perhaps this Xbox version will be an experiment gone good and realism can finally start to play an equal part once this milestone has been reached. But if things keep going as they have been for 20+ years, realism in flight simulation will eventually die to a photography game.
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Todayās E3 Announcement states XBox version will release 27-July. Please join the Main thread to continue conversations about the console launch. Thanks.
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