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Reply #15 - Mar 5th, 2012 at 7:15pm

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Reply #16 - Mar 5th, 2012 at 7:15pm

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Here’s a way to look at FS.

FSX & all the other Flight Sims before it are like Mozart & never gets old, but you can't expect to like it immediately.

Flight is like new modern shouty squawky groaning songs. You may like it for a wee while but after a month you get over it.
 

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Reply #17 - Mar 6th, 2012 at 11:09am

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I really don't think MS give a monkeys what us flight vets want, otherwise they wouldn't have released the team that made the likes of FS9 and FSX.

This latest offering is a game, pure and simple.  Yes it looks nice but once you've taken the wrapper off it's as boring as hell to simmers.

Someone has eluded to this before but I think this is a cynical attempt to 'lure' in non simmers who like PS3 and XBox type flying games in the hope they get hooked and maybe go on to purchase add ons.

Just my two cents worth.
 
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Reply #18 - Mar 8th, 2012 at 8:17am

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drtomkat wrote on Mar 2nd, 2012 at 8:32am:
Jayhawk Jake wrote on Feb 28th, 2012 at 10:27pm:
Okay, I'm sure there's going to be a lot of these, but I'll be quick.

Flight is perfect.  Flawless, only flawless for what it is trying to be.  It's a game that looks good, runs great, and I can see how it would be fun to play if you have NO FS experience or knowledge.

For us though, it's terrible.  Too restrictive, expensive DLC, too easy, too intrusive, etc.

All I have to say is support it.  Not with money, just download it, play it for a bit, and show Microsoft you are interested, but you need more. 

I want to see the engine running it released as Flight Pro, with the whole world but barebones.  Let US create the content, it'll be great.

13 year vet and i agreed with you, we need to let microsoft know what vets like us need.


Don't mind me passing by. I will be gone soon.

I only stopped by reading this and from my position of an adult FS user (18 years, yes, I started in 94, more or less) I couldn't but agree, but at the same time despair.

I agree that M$ could have made a serious version (pro or whatever) for users searching a simulator...

I despair because I KNOW how in M$ they reason, and KNOW they NEVER give their users ANY hear. Their position of power in the software world gives them the option to shoulder onwards even against the majority's requests. They've done it in the past, and with good success, because the users base have caved in to their will, so no reason to behave any differently.

I just hope this time they'll get EXACTLY what they deserve, for once.

To those of you who think differently, don't bother trying to disprove my words. Historical facts are and remain historical facts. Fangirlism or fanboysm should not be part of a serious discussion, as they only fog one's mind, polluting his or her opinion.
 

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