May 19, 201214 yr Hi Folks Please lets put an end to these utterly pointless naysayer comparisons of apples and prawn sandwiches. Membership of any STEAM Official Game Groups has nothing whatsoever to do with players of that game. e.g. STEAM MS FLIGHT - 1,105 - Official Game Group members 3,103 - Players recommend this game to their friends 3,188 - Players concurrently playing FLIGHT, (snapshot 05/04/2012) EDIT - 3,188 might possibly have been a daily stat. Membership of any STEAM Official Game Groups is the equivalent of AVSIM members who've specifically clicked the Follow This Forum button. 51 - AVSIM - The Microsoft Flight Forum HTH ATB Paul ODG Preview
May 19, 201214 yr From http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ Steam & Game Stats Updated: May 19, 2012 - 11:17 AM Flight isn't in the current top 100 today. #100 is Alien Swarm and has 543 current players also 543 is the peak for Alien Swarm today. Age of Empires Online has 2,090 current online peak of 2,099 Batman Arkham City has 1,626 current online peak of 1641 I don't know if Steam counts Flight that wasn't purchased through Steam.
May 20, 201214 yr Commercial Member From http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ Steam & Game Stats Updated: May 19, 2012 - 11:17 AM Flight isn't in the current top 100 today. #100 is Alien Swarm and has 543 current players also 543 is the peak for Alien Swarm today. Age of Empires Online has 2,090 current online peak of 2,099 Batman Arkham City has 1,626 current online peak of 1641 I don't know if Steam counts Flight that wasn't purchased through Steam. There is Fierce competition in the game world Ms try to put Flight in !
May 21, 201214 yr Indeed, it's not in the top 100 for Steam today neither. I was curious and checked for other popular flight simulations sold on Steam, but none of them (IL2, both new and old, Wing of Prey, DSC A10 and Black Shark, Take On Helicopters...) are present (but none of them are very recent, and people who buy DCS on Steam often migrate away from it due to patches being available earlier without Steam). In fact, the simulation that is there in top 100 is Railworks. Quite surprising as I always thought that rail sim were more of a niche than flight sims, but I did hear that Railworks is quite a success and DLC is selling well on Steam (and this should be encouraging for the survival of Flight, but it still needs to climb a bit the ladder and get up there with Railworks). One thing that might have helped Railworks is the sheer amount of DLC: during a while, whenever I was checking new releases on Steam, there was always a Railworks DLC - this means that the game is getting constant exposure, which is something Flight is not able to do right now. Are Railworks DLC first or third party content?
May 21, 201214 yr Author To a question posed on the beta forums, a moderator said that their belief was that historically DLC came slowly at first, then increased in frequency as the team learns how to streamline things and iron out bottlenecks, establish reliable procedures, etc........ The vibe was of the "Give us some time" variety. It is true we should keep in mind that Flight is only a few months old, whereas Train simulator has been out for several years. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
May 21, 201214 yr And FLIGHT is really NEW, FRESH, GREAT CODE put together with some inherited features from MSFS, but bringing us a unique flight simulation experience with features unique to any simulator, and many others much improved frm the MSFS series. Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
May 22, 201214 yr That's encouraging. If Railworks Train Sim started with a slow DLC schedule and managed to climb where they are (a) year(s) later, there's no reason why Flight couldn't do that as well. We're seeing it from the impatient point of view of existing users, but if it's designed to last, newcomers will join next year, and the year after - this type of user would face a rich palette of DLC, like Railworks is able to now, and would experience none of the frustration/impatience sometime seen here now. I really wish Flight to follow the steps of Railworks. Being on Steam will help a lot to follow these steps I think. Time will tell.
May 22, 201214 yr Railworks 3 (train sim 2012) was released Sept 2011.Also all Railworks downloads on Steam aren't from Kuju. If I want I can repaint trains or build my own trains or scenery.
May 22, 201214 yr And I still think Flight would be wise to do as Railworks 3 (open itself to 3rd party, allow players to tinker/create) in this regard in the future.
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