What are your expectations for MSFS in the next 3 years?

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We’re closing in on the 2 year anniversary of MSFS “2020.”

MSFS 2020 is expected to be a 10 year lifespan. With 3 years left to go until the “halfway point”: what do you expect, what do you hope for, and what do you think will happen?

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I hope that they fix all the important issues first ,before they give another scenery update. other wise I see a lot of folks will drop this game sadly.

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You’re about 6 months too early for the 2 year anniversary - mid August will be the 2 year point

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I expect them to finally give us a decent ATC, fix the weather, implement gliders and helicopters, improve the missing and low-quality ground textures, improve stability and improve system depth and aerodynamics, so the hardcore-simmers have a reason to finally ditch P3D

Prepare to be disappointed since they already announced SIX world updates for this year alone.

However since a guy working on scenery design probably has ZERO idea how the code for the ATC, flight models, aerodynamics, graphics engine, servers or all the other thousands of inner gizmos of MSFS work, this is a total none-issue.

WU and SU are most likely done by completely different people so suddenly doing away with scenery updates will make a lot of people get very bored or very unemployed

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This is a bigger project than other XBOX Studios titles, but it appears to be a slower moving evolution like a Forza Horizon title, where we get routine patches that iron out bugs, and add features… and we get regular updates to add content.

So in the next 2-3 years, I expect major bugs will be squashed, stability will improve, and the community will have moved on to complaining about new, far less significant things.

All the while, the world map will continue to improve, the flight model will become more realistic, more graphical details will be added in and around your plane, and 3rd party addons will have really hit their stride.

And at some point, those updates will be met with, “Ugh! I have to wait for yet another update to download!” instead of, “This update better fix (my pet issue)!”

It is around midway through a Forza title’s life cycle that it really starts to feel like a mature piece of software with no clearly noticeable issues, and a ton of handy features. And at that point, the updates become tedious because the game is already working beautifully, but they will keep working on it until the next title drops.

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Drop this game?.. not sure that will ever be the case.

You’re expecting Asobo will “drop” MSFS in the next 3 years?

I said something about how Forza titles are supported until the next title, “Drops.”

I think they misunderstood the meaning of, “Drop” in that context.

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Proper aerodynamics, all the great payware planes you can get in P3D and airport lighting at night!

I said people will stop playing this game if its not fixed. The die hards wont but a handful of people does not make economical sense. They need new blood because most of us are long in the tooth and wont be around much longer.

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MSFS has been out for so long now, it has already lost most of the casual players.

It will always pick up more as a system showcase on Game Pass, but the die hards are gonna get more attention going forward since they drive the 3rd Party economy.

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I understand what you are trying to say… my point is that will never be the case, although hypotheticals can be fun to throw around. The MSFS development team is all in and completely devoted for an entire decade, and very clear and transparent on their path moving forward. I don’t think there ever has been a game/sim (DCS is an entirely different conversation) supported by its developers the way MSFS currently is. To reply to the OP, my expectations are extremely high and off the charts.

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I’m counting on Working Title to make noticeable progress in both the flight planner and the default avionics throughout this year. I’m also hoping that Asobo will take some of the performance gains and make the sky, clouds, and weather even better and more realistic and varied.
and I hope the ground aerial imagery will improve in some areas.

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Cloud gaming hasn’t even gotten MSFS yet. I expect that the WASM issue also effect cloud gaming too, but once cloud gaming for MSFS comes, the audience will grow significantly more.

This title won’t be dropped anytime in the near future.

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In the next three years, everything a pc has for MSFS on XBOX. and VR made for XBOX

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I think it would be a good idea to ask Asobo what their expectations were. What I mean is this, have them go back to all of those glowing pre-release videos they whet our appetites with. Have them look at all the claims They made of perfect fidelity in every area, and then have them look at the feedback from the community and see how many of those actually met the mark of their hype. Once they have done that, they might ask do they still expect to reach those goals three years in?

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The far more important factor is what MICROSOFT’s expectations are .

I would be surprised to get any such information from Asobo, as they are most likely very limited by MS,as to what the can and can’t say.

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Yeah. Pretty weird dude. Might want to delete that. Super inappropriate for this forum.

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The world will look much better over the next 3 years with future “World Updates”. I do think we will run into several countries that will tell Microsoft “NO!”. Countries like China, Russia and parts of the old Soviet block could refuse new data due to national security reasons. So I expect some countries will get a second update, Asobo mentioned that the USA has a lot more “new” data that they could put into a “USA vol. 2” update.

As for sim updates. Of course, they will continue to squash bugs and work improving FPS with DX12, DLSS and other methods. But after gliders and helicopters, I wonder what more they can add. That pretty much covers most forms of flight. I see them finally adding seasons, and I believe they will do it remarkably well. I’m certain one of the 3 “surprises” on the roadmap is seasons. Unfortunately, I don’t see them adding weapons. Which could real cool. Imagine the DCS F18 in this sim.

I think this year will be the beginning of the “Study Level” aircraft. It will most likely take into 2023 to get them where the developers want them, but we will see the beginnings of it start to form this year. I would not be surprised if “Fly The Maddog” slipped to next year along with the Fenix 320. I really expect the PMDG 777 and 747 to slip into 2023 also. This is just pure speculation. So the next 3 years will be full of great aircraft for the hardcore simmers.

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Never leave… never. This is phenomenal!!!