I’m not joking.
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So all’s well ends well?
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Nobody is obliged to buy it, and there is plenty of guidance available for free.
Experience shows that developers often aren’t the best people to write manuals anyway. They already know how everything works, so don’t understand the need to explain things. But yeah, it would have been nice to have had a little more from Asobo, even if it was incomplete. Which it would have been, since the sim isn’t finished yet…
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Can’t see a problem!
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There’s been quite a song and dance about a manual for the game…I don’t get it.
I cant remember the last time i bought a game, or a sim; that included a manual. Eve-Online i think it was back in 2003.
Part of the fun is figuring things out yet if you ever get truly stuck its nothing a google/youtube search does not quickly resolve. I don’t have to pay more for the game to account for the time it took to create a manual i didn’t want and a youtuber gets the ad-revenue for taking time to create a tutorial. Win win in my book.
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There’s usually at least a PDF manual, at least for complicated games like…I dunno, flight sims maybe?
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Very valid point that. Chances are it’ll be out of date after a patch or 3…
Ya know, after taking a closer look it does look like a very well put together guide. I think it’s too expensive and there’s no mention of updates after patching changes things (like ATC), but I hope the fella does well out of it. And I still think Asobo should produce their own.
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Given how fast things will be changing over the next few months to a year ( I hope!) I don’t see how they’re going to keep their information up to date In the book. YouTube videos and online wikis normally stay up with all that Way better than a book that came out right after it was released can. But folks are allowed to buy or not buy at their leisure.
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I bought it. It is basically a rehash if everything in the sim. I found it pretty disappointing. For instance, I wanted to learn more about flying the 152. The info on the 152 is the same info you see when you are selecting the aircraft…nothing more.
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I highly doubt it, back then Eve was far too difficult to explain in a manual 
I miss ye 'olden days.
This is probably for people that have never been on a simulator before. Anyhow, there is probably a million tutorials out there that can be used instead of purchasing a manual.
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Took these just now, got my box and everything! Did you know the manual mentioned the Titan over 3 years before it even came out!
I loved Eve, super unforgiving no hand-holding at all. Took me a week to figure out i should be learning skill books. So far ahead of its time Eve was.
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Is called…Marketing.
I purchased this guide when it first came out and it has already added 28 new pages.
It also provides tips I have not found elsewhere.
I paid $17.86 Cnd. If you want you can spend hours complaining about not having a manual or you can spend now and get it now. It will have years of upgrades that Microsoft might not keep up to date with their
free manual that we never got.
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No different then a magazine publisher making a guide for how to use the flight simulator.
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I actually don’t remember the last time MS flight sim came with a manual, (physical), that was much more than install instructions, and an advert for the Sidewinder 2, Lol.
I do remember buying books for fs95 and fs98. Fairly thick books, with a bunch of filler in them, but not much substance if one already had familiarity with the program.
I like a good physical manual myself, and I get the want to have something in the way of a manual, but I suspect the internet has killed the desire for any developer to put much effort into one these days. Hassle though it may be at times, there really isn’t much that you can put in one that can’t just be googled, and not having one included just plain saves money.
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Just reinstalled fsx back onto my laptop. Did we forget the exhaustive Tutorials and handbooks that came with the app? Take a look and see what we got with this. Oh, and let’s not forget the manuals that came with some of the other fly sims. Check out the manual from fltsim2000.
Just sayin’.
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What is unique about this guide that you can’t find online for free?
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Sorry but I couldn’t resist, an incomplete manual to go with an incomplete product - perfect.
If you are looking at industry standards then PMDG release with the plane’s manufacturers manuals and a very detailed product manual about their product and a very detailed and well thought out tutorial flight to get you going.
Want to start a foundation of piloting knowledge - Use the FAA free publications; https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/
Start with the Airplane Flying Handbook.
Want to know specifics about an particular airframe - Find someone’s scanned POH. 152 for example;
Still want more information - Try Google;
https://www.google.com/
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