Haha I have had to definitely take a break quite a few times out of frustration. You are lucky if you dont get crashes to desktop at the moment. Who knows, maybe its particular to certain hardware.
That being said I still see the potential in the sim, and I am pretty confident that things are being worked on at quite a quick pace, even if they are running into unintended consequences when they try to fix one thing or another. Im off to bed, take care everyone.
Look,
I’m not kid that can be lied day by day, with promises and next promises. state of this sim points to all!
Seems to me that the initial focus was on scenery & textures which is definitely trend setting although Anti-Aliasing needs improvement. The planes look good but they all seem to have serious bugs. ATC is seriously lacking as well and needs a major re-think and facelift. Weather also needs some help as does traffic. Once these are properly addressed it will be a proper simulator. Can’t really see the developers dropping the ball on this.
In my opinion they should concentrate now on fixing bugs the community can not in the same way e.g. Autopilot, graphics, some aspects of flightmodels, and I am not talking about study level requirements just to be able to fly in a normal reliable way. I still think that this game has great potential. I would pay for good DLC but not for hastily put together stuff without proper testing.
The support from the community is great in my opinion.
Both Microsoft and Asobo have stated clearly that they plan to fully support the sim for 10 years. They plan to sell DLC (the only example they provided, which was theoretical, was 20 helicopters when helicopters become flyable) and release the sim on Xbox as well, but that’s far from the only point.
Your analysis of profitability misses the fact that Microsoft Flight Simulator isn’t just another game for Microsoft. It’s a showpiece of many of their technologies which they’re pushing very hard across the whole corporation, including Azure, Bing, and more, and Game Pass on top of that. It isn’t just about selling copies or selling DLC.
The fact that they’re giving away entirely for free world updates that would usually cost $100-200 in addons every 2-3 months (and we all know that they could easily afford selling them as DLC if revenue was the focus, and people would absolutely buy them by the droves. Sell a season pass each 3 updates for $50 and they’d make more money than Dead or Alive selling sexy costumes) and even paying Gaya Simulations to create them shows pretty clearly that making money isn’t entirely the point here. A company like Microsoft doesn’t reason in terms of direct income alone, and the fact that they have purchased Bethesda for 7.5 billion like they were peanuts is an indication of that.
The fact that it’s a critical success with 92 Metacritic and a commercial success that has sold over a million copies (and will sell many more) is simply the icing on the cake.
It’s very safe to assume that this sim will be supported actively long beyond the natural death of every other commercial flight sim currently on the market.
Can I tell you something?
This very same posts I saw after few days after release 
20 $ for a plane. So far I have 3000 $ invested in hardware only and solely for this game
There is Flightgear for that, a fully open source flight sim
I would not be surprised if this is the test-bench for new video game technologies, as well as a capabilities demonstration for their AI tech.
As for financial net-zero, I see either fully fleshed out DLC such as a thoroughly detailed airliner or inclusion of new luxury features (such as Charts+).
Can be true,
with this I can now imagine everything, all is possible with this ‘project’…
Yes good point and I bet at least partly correct Microsoft are not motivated by altruistic motives any more than any other large corporate..
Hardware doesn’t directly goto MSFT, unless you mean windows 10.
What I mean is that my new PC will only and exclusively be used to play MSFS. No other software/games is going to run on it. Plus pedals, yoke, Logitech panels, 3 screens. I dont play any other games.
Oh. Got it. You’re spending the $$. Not that you’re saying it’s going to msft
There are many avionic bugs.
G1000/G3000 only 50% working
AP is unstable, there are serious bugs.
Bugs with different hardware combinations - Beachcomb yoke makes Logitch multi panel unusable for example.
Jet MCDUs do not work 100%. Flightplans seem to be a mess.
A serious limitation is lack of multi-monitor support.
Until these and other problems are fixed, I don’t see how the product can be usable for flight simulation. They have a long way to catch up with Xplane.
There seems to be too much emphasis on extra scenery and airports, rather than making the planes fly correctly.
I have often wondered if MSFS is a vanity project for Microsoft, a me-to project to catch up with Google Earth, Maps and Android Auto.
I have the discount Xbox pass. I will not buy the full product until the planes and hardware work well.
Paul
You are so right well done keep it up I
Have been on to Microsoft over this
It is a decrease