Microsoft Flight as a product management and market-fit case study could be laminated and stuck on a wall as an example of how to alienate the “power users”. It was uncanny how it pretty much did everything exactly wrong and it’s great fun to talk about. Flying around just Hawaii in an IconA5 with an unskippable tutorial, no SDK, with the free-to-play model of Games for Windows Marketplace locked DLC 
. The perfect exercise in misunderstanding what made MFS good. In a way I wonder if it just needed to happen and get killed off to make the pitch for a future MSFS happen? Maybe, and if so, thank you Microsoft Flight… 
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This new sim is the most amazing simulated world experience I’ve ever had.
I honestly still can’t get over just how optimized it is.
We were NEVER supposed to be able to fly out of somewhere like KLAX with full busy ai traffic, amazing level of detail clouds and terrain visuals in a complex performance hungry PMDG airliner topped with an even more performance hungry fully stereoscopic 3D 6 DOF VR.
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+1,000!
To everyone who complains, try the Atari 8-bit cartridge version using an arcade joystick with four position switches and a trigger button as the flight controller!
Been there, done that, and was THRILLED that I could actually “fly” a plane out of an airport that I could choose (from a limited set). I could “fly” out of Long Island MacArthur Airport, (my local airport at the time), and “see” things around me and then “land” again - I was in heaven!
Seriously, there’s a video floating around that starts with the wind-up, wood burning version back in the 80’s and hits every version up to today and, (as far as I am concerned), it should be required viewing for anyone who wants to use the sim.
It’s a wonderful thing we have here, and I am glad to be a part of it, warts and all.
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. . . . IMHO. . . .
Every flight sim has a particular focus and development emphasis.
The thing I really like about all of the MSFS titles, including this one, is the shear HOLY $&#ק¢!!! BATMAN!!! “wow” factor that has been a hallmark of the entire MSFS effort since day one.
You start the sim and the first thing you see is an image taken from within the sim itself that is absolutely jaw-dropping!
This is what I call, (after visiting Walt Disney World years ago), the “is it real, or is it Disney?” effect - the in-sim visuals are just so amazing that it just boggles the mind.
Maybe the simulator’s physics aren’t accurate to twenty decimal places, but that’s not what I am here for. I’m here to have fun and enjoy being able to fly where I want, whenever I want, however I want, and no one can say me nay.
I can buzz the Moscow Kremlin today, land on the South Lawn of the White House tomorrow, then try to fly under the Eiffel Tower the day after.
I used to live in Anchorage Alaska in the early 60’s. If I want to see what it’s like today, I can go there and go sightseeing. The same with Whitehorse Canada, or Peking China.
Sure, there are other good sims out there, but where else can you get the jaw-dropping experience you have here?
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Possibly the best line in your entire post - so true from what I see on these forums at least, including earlier in this thread!
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