That is a rhetorical question.I have only seen one person actually refer to this directly. Let me spell this out.When they dropped "Simulator" from "Flight Simulator" in order to call this product "Flight", did that not alarm anyone 18 months ago? As if the firing of ACES followed by the announcement of this new product, "Flight", by Microsoft **GAME STUDIOS** wasn't enough of a hint...Just needed to say that. I can move on now.Best regards,Robin.

Well yes it did make me wonder why the dropped the title but when they mentioned this:

A number of you have asked, “Why did you drop ‘Simulator’ from the title of the game?”In addition to the FAQ on this topic, we want to directly address the concern that by dropping the “Simulator” from the name, we’re dumbing down the experience. Quite the contrary! We’ve developed on the “simulation” aspect for many years and have no intention of losing that legacy. What we’re doing now is improving the total experience while building on this legacy, enhancing the enjoyment for all who share a passion for flight. The more people who join us in the Flight experience, the greater the opportunity we’ll have to do even more.

Maybe I thought it wouldn't be so bad. But now I've seen what PMDG and Orbx have said then I'm not too sure what is going to happen over the next couple of months. But that is more to them not agreeing with Microsoft in how their addons should be sold etc.

Edited January 6, 201214 yr by MattGarner

A lot of people seem happy about the recent MS announcement about Flight, because those people can now point fingers and say "Told you so!!". I've learned that this is really what flight simulation is all about.

Edited January 6, 201214 yr by tolip2

The fact MS have seen fit to break the globe up into regions, and only offering Hawaii and 1 aircraft to fly, I doubt things will improve.Unless MS have some as yet unannounced product such as "Flight Pro", or even Flight Simulator 2012, based on Flight engine but with all the things we know from FS, then FS as we know it is done.What has annoyed me more than anything is this: for years they added to FS graphically, and didn't add to the basic fundamentals of flying. We have the same flight model and weather engine in FSX that was present in FS98, only with different graphics!!! If that wasn't bad enough, FSX was seriously buggy, and still is. Now they release Flight after 2 years dev, and what is in there, for 2 years worth of what, 10 developers time (so 20 years worth of coding)? A severely limited, closed system, that is closer to the arcade games of the 80s than a 21st Century simulator. FFS - the computers we have today are frikkin' supercomputers. We should be running the kind of simulations on our desktops that NASA was having wet dreams over in the 70s.It goes beyond Flight though - if you look at the whole computer market in the last 8 years or so, and everything has been dumbed down to suit the idiots of society. Just look at the "apps" available for iPods etc.. - they are nothing meaningful 99% of the time. The whole thing is designed for fast turn over, and $$$. Today it's "Angry Birds", tomorrow something else. Longevity has gone the way of the rest of society - quick fix, must-have-it-all-now. Society is too short-termist. Hell - that is the very reason we are in this damn financial mess, because people borrowed far too much money because they could not wait to buy something they didn't actually need. Personal debt in the US is hitting $3 Trillion. What happened to Flight is just a symptom of the sick world in which we live today. I'm not convinced it will stop any time soon.Best regards,Robin.

That is a rhetorical question.I have only seen one person actually refer to this directly. Let me spell this out.When they dropped "Simulator" from "Flight Simulator" in order to call this product "Flight", did that not alarm anyone 18 months ago? As if the firing of ACES followed by the announcement of this new product, "Flight", by Microsoft **GAME STUDIOS** wasn't enough of a hint...Just needed to say that. I can move on now.Best regards,Robin.

Now you're trying to inject logic into a debate that has raged on for months by those ignoring common sense and being illogical... yes, some of us tried to point stuff like this out to the masses, and we were mostly ridiculed for doing so...

Well yes it did make me wonder why the dropped the title but when they mentioned this:A number of you have asked, “Why did you drop ‘Simulator’ from the title of the game?”In addition to the FAQ on this topic, we want to directly address the concern that by dropping the “Simulator” from the name, we’re dumbing down the experience. Quite the contrary! We’ve developed on the “simulation” aspect for many years and have no intention of losing that legacy. What we’re doing now is improving the total experience while building on this legacy, enhancing the enjoyment for all who share a passion for flight. The more people who join us in the Flight experience, the greater the opportunity we’ll have to do even more.Maybe I thought it wouldn't be so bad. But now I've seen what PMDG and Orbx have said then I'm not too sure what is going to happen over the next couple of months. But that is more to them not agreeing with Microsoft in how their addons should be sold etc.

Yes, it would appear that according to their answer to this FAQ, that MS may have lied or misled us... by saying they were not "dumbing down the experience" and that they had no intention of losing that legacy.... when the product they just unveiled completely contradicts them, because they have dumbed it down and it has little relationship to legacy FS...But as many of us tried to tell folks for months around these hallowed halls, this isn;t the first time MS has lied to the public about software.

Edited January 6, 201214 yr by Jacoba