January 5, 201214 yr MS flight looks like a total tragedy!!!!!Is it no more than Google earth and only Hawaii??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!only Hawaii Big Island!!! John Rubens
January 5, 201214 yr Seriously guys, you have to stop calling this DLC. Clearly you guys don't understand what free-to-play models are about. Unlike DLC, this isn't the developer trying to make an extra buck. The developer DEPENDS on the extra content, seeing as the core game is free. Therefore, the FS team won't be putting out haphazard 'DLC' parts as you guys think of it. From the onset, there will be a large number of available purchases, with more to come.For those of you that aren't aware, of the most successful multiplayer games, Team Fortress 2 is now free-to-play and makes a crapton more money than the original. The upside? Now there's more content than you could ever hope to use in a lifetime. If users desire a certain type of product, they buy that, and the developers realise they need more of said product. It ends up creating a gaming environment that caters to the desires of the players, not the developers (otherwise they go broke). This is the basis for Flight. If you guys can't see the upside to the 'limited' content for a FREE product, I don't know what else to do.Yes, Flight may end up dissapointing. But it also has the potential to be very surprising. I think banning it outright like is occuring is unjustified. FSX was a game for last century, in fact fs 2004 was already completely outdated. It's good to see MS are catching up with modern platforms. And despite what many of you claim, you will ALL try Flight, simply because it's free. You would be stupid to put down a free product of this caliber.
January 5, 201214 yr :( :( A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
January 5, 201214 yr :(Another great quote Mike Avallone [email protected],Corsair H115i cooler,ASUS 2080TI,GSkill 32GB pc3600 ram, 2 WD black NVME ssd drives, ASUS maximus hero MB
January 5, 201214 yr The developer DEPENDS on the extra content, seeing as the core game is free. Therefore, the FS team won't be putting out haphazard 'DLC' parts as you guys think of it. From the onset, there will be a large number of available purchases, with more to come.For those of you that aren't aware, of the most successful multiplayer games, Team Fortress 2 is now free-to-play and makes a crapton more money than the original. The upside? Now there's more content than you could ever hope to use in a lifetime.I think the Rise of Flight model works in a very similar way. Initially though, you paid for the base simulation but these days I understand the core game is free. And that model is working seemingly with incredible success. I get more email updates from them with new add-on and updates information than I have time to digest and the pricing is reasonable as well (I think less than $10 for a new aircraft).So if the RoF model is anything to go by, continual DLC availability by the original developer, even if only in-house, has proven to be very successful in the flight sim genre. Maybe even MS had eyes on the way that game panned out and judged that this business model would be a success for them as well (I believe it will be). One big advantage MS would have is a far larger potential audience and practically limitless choices for new DLC - unlike RoF that is restricted to an era and geographical area, yet still manages to be a success.
