Its a greedy and flawed business model.

In your opinion. It is also a possible (and rather brilliant) way to fund the development of what may eventually give us FSXI (or the closest thing to it). And no one yet knows how well Flight's DLC will sell. If it sells well, it will hardly be a "flawed" business model.

MS Flight's target audience (from what I can tell) is primarily children and maybe young teenagers. If the DLC for flight really will add up to hundreds or even thousands of dollars, I can imagine them not selling much of anything, I mean, kids don't have money for stuff like that, their parents do, and I'm pretty sure no parent would spend that much money on some overpriced game addons for their kid.

Flight was designed to be attractive to a much broader spectrum of uses than FSX. MS apparently felt that was necessary in order to attract enough users, who would buy enough DLC for Flight to succeed financially.Statements that suggest that Flight was designed primarily for children, is insulting to users (like me) who happen to really like Flight. Flight is a very good flightsim, if you treat it as one. Yes, it has more gaming aspects than FSX, but that doesn't make it less of a flightsim. It is brand new, and it still needs more features (like ATC and AI traffic), which I think will come in time.

FSX at the time of launch was what, $60? And for that, you get global land coverage, thousands of airports, loads of aircraft, AI aircraft, and all the other little things that make FSX great. For flight, you pay $20, 1/3 of the FSX retail price, for a few small islands that aren't even completely custom modelled. If that isn't a scam, I don't know what is.

Most flightsimmers would not be happy with FSXI, if it was just an update of FSX (yes, some would be, but probably not enough to generate the sales needed). A flightsim that covers the entire world in the detail of Flight's Hawaii scenery would cost way more FSX did. X-Plane 10 sells for $79 and most of the world is just generic (a "plausible" world).

Edited March 2, 201214 yr by Arwen

You can have both in FSX. The world and even more detailed scenery that dwarfs the size of Flight's Hawaii. It's called Orbx.FSX default wad never mostly featureless anyway though.

yes the world is there in FSX but here we went and paid for that one airport that was included but not with detail . So you can also look at this like if that airport was never there.

Again, comparison between flight and FSX... 2 different kind of software, different material, philosophy, target audience... no room for comparing in any way.

+1 Flight just got out of the box FSX its been out for a long time , lets give flight some time to see where it goes and at that point we can come back and do some fair comparasion .

Meh. More FUD.Something similar to this happened across the web with a discussion of the Mass Effect3 DLC when it was estimated that the cost of all announced DLC to date would exceed $800FEAR! OUTRAGE!!! CONSTERNATION!!! CATS WITH PARACHUTES!!!!Some less excitable souls quietly pointed out that this was only if you purchased each item separately, and that due to constant sales, packaging bundles and other fairly common DLC practices, the actual price was closer to $80In fact, even the DLC of Trains that was brought into the picture is so often surrounded by weekend half-price sales and bundles that the prices being discussed are only if the purchaser is one very foolish person. A very large number of people deliberately ignore DLC until it is on sale. :wink:Finally, even if the DLC of trains in the end cost exactly as much as intimated, I would point out that this price tag still pales in comparison to the thousands of dollars happily and proudly spent over the course of a few years (IE: Hey! Looking to get a new FSX machine!) by many devoted FSX followers. And is still much, much much below the price of creating a similar train universe using physical models.To me, for now, this is very likely a tempest in a teacup.

Edited March 2, 201214 yr by HiFlyer'

This topic is not going anywhere good. We have enough on our plate than swapping differing opinions on some train simulator. I am locking this thread.

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