Cost is not the issue.  Quality is.

My simming time is limited.

Glad I amuse you.

17 minutes ago, Boomer said:

My simming time is limited.

You'd have even more time for simming if you wouldn't regularly hijack threads to post your one-sentence 'opinions'.

(I have nothing against opinions, but you literally say the same stuff over and over again and you rarely, if ever, engage in meaningful discussion when your opinion is challenged by arguments.)

Why buy a Ford pickup, when there is already Chevy and Dodge RAM that does the same thing?

It's called preference and selection. We should all be very happy that now we have such a great selection of 64bit simulations, when just a short time ago I remember seeing post after post about "What Will Be The Future of FSX?" (Now that Microsoft has dropped support). 

Well, the future is bright! 

I can hardly keep track of all the sim-developments now. I'm just happy to see some 3PDs are embracing the multi-platform options now. 

40 minutes ago, FSXtreme said:

Why buy a Ford pickup, when there is already Chevy and Dodge RAM that does the same thing?

It's called preference and selection. We should all be very happy that now we have such a great selection of 64bit simulations, when just a short time ago I remember seeing post after post about "What Will Be The Future of FSX?" (Now that Microsoft has dropped support). 

Well, the future is bright! 

Precisely. And whilst posts such as this one by definition invite discussion as to why someone else might, or might not choose to buy FSW, as an aviation enthusiast and someone who has been into flight sims ever since you could type programs into a crappy Z Spectrum computer, I can never understand why anyone has to get partisan about it. After all, if we were all in a pub, our shared interest in sims and aviation would almost certainly mean we'd all get along like a house on fire I am sure.

Anyway...

Here's a really good story about that kind of bond between people with a shared interest which I am sure you will all like very much: Henry Fonda and James Stewart used to share an apartment when Stewart first got out to Hollywood, after having been scouted by Hollywood following impressive stage performances. Now as I'm sure everyone knows, Stewart was a massive air enthusiast, having gained his PPL in 1935, ending up instructing on B17s, later flying missions in Europe on the B24 (and not just milk runs either, he flew to Berlin and other hot targets numerous times) and commanding a squadron, later still even flying a mission in a B52 over Vietnam, which is remarkable when you consider he started out as a buck private. Having played Charles Lindbergh and, in perhaps my fave film of all time, pilot Frank Towns in Flight of the Phoenix, thus Stewart carried over his love of flying to some roles he took in movies. What is less well known is that Fonda too was a big fan of aviation, like Stewart, he too did not merely want to serve in Hollywood during WW2, so he served in the Navy for three years on a destroyer and later, in a very telling move for someone who loved flying, as an Air Combat Intelligence Officer in the Central Pacific with the eventual rank of Lt JG. So like his friend, he also somewhat echoed his life in the services in acting roles, perhaps most famously as Mister Roberts in the film of the same name. Now, why point this out? Well, Fonda was famously fairly left wing, something which was probably informed by the fact that at age 14, Fonda's father took him to see the lynching of a negro accused of rape, which upset and angered Fonda, who had been brought up as a Christian Scientist even though he later declared himself to be agnostic. Stewart was more of a Hawk politically, in that he was a staunch Republican, so the two were about as chalk and cheese as you could get where political beliefs were concerned and very passionate about those beliefs too. The pair did in fact have a fist fight once over a political argument, however, they later simply agreed to not go there in future and thus their friendship remained strong. Now here's the great bit: Apparently, when they were in each other's company, they liked nothing better than to quietly sit making and painting model aeroplanes together. How cool is that?

1 hour ago, domae001 said:

You'd have even more time for simming if you wouldn't regularly hijack threads to post your one-sentence 'opinions'.

(I have nothing against opinions, but you literally say the same stuff over and over again and you rarely, if ever, engage in meaningful discussion when your opinion is challenged by arguments.)

Valid point.

Well,

 

the graphics, the default scenery - THE MISSIONS !!! - are ALL such a GREAT TIME AT LAST !!!!

It's been since 2012 that I was missing this kind of sensation - honestly!

Loving all about FSW - this is all I can write.

 

Very enthusiastic with FSW, good graphics, beautiful scenery, vibration effects, sounds, rain, turbulence, are fantastic, special reference to sun visor that goes from 0 to 100 degrees on very hard landings, I was taken by surprise!.


João Alfredo

Great post.

same.   It was only 25$ and for v4 I would think about paying for 60$ and for payware for pmdg and fslabs like over 130$  would be considerable . 

personally I won't pay SIM that costs more than 300$ with total payware addons.

Why I bought FSW: By SmokeDiddy

Well, I have enjoyed all the MS Flight Simulator titles since Commodore 64.  These are all I have ever used.  I never bought MS Flight or Flight School or any other flight sim title.  I am retired Air Force, not a flyer, but weapons systems technician.  I have always had an affinity for aviation and every version of MS sim that came along, I would buy and off I would go.  DTG took FSX and made some improvements (FSX-SE) where they could and certainly extended the life of FSX further than I would have believed.  I bought FSW mainly because of "brand loyalty" - used very loosely, and since FSW still has some core FSX in it, it seems like the appropriate progression for me.  I will not lie tho, I am perhaps a little frustrated that the EA release has significant gaps that keep me from moving over 100%.  I was really hoping for a little more completeness, but it is what it is.  Additionally, FSW makes me feel like I am in a new version of FSX to tbh.  Don't get me wrong, I like challenging systems, real time weather, flight dynamics, etc.; therefore, I want a sim that does all the stuff that immerses me.  Lastly, I am a one sim man, and with the 32bit sims seemingly going by the wayside, I am in a resulting vacuum of wanting something new (not necessarily "needing" something new at this point).  That's why I bought FSW.  The End.

 

I've bought every sim made in the last 25 years, and this one is no exception.

My current favorite sim is FSX/Accel with Orbx scenery LC and regions, but I am willing to see if DTG can fix all the problems in the early version of FSW, and develop it into a robust platform with attractive addons...

Way too early to tell IMHO.

If they can release a Malibu with an HSI that does not show the aircraft heading, but the OBS course instead, I would say that they have a way to go..  Lets see   

After all, like the original poster, $25 is worth it just for flying the Super Cub and having some fun with it..

Having given in, downloaded, and initially been unimpressed with FSW I have to admit it's starting to grow on me.

The plane's are nicely detailed and the blurries can be combatted to some degree by increasing the LOD. It's nice to be reminded of the variety of autogen Orbx produce (even though the tress are still too big...) and having seasons again showed me how much I've really missed since using XP as my primary sim.

Naturally it still needs (a lot of) work but if they can sort out the blurries, improve weather / atmospheric scattering etc. and get all the 3rd party developers onboard soonish then I might spend more money on it.

 

Now...does anyone know if there's a cfg tweak or anything that allows you to increase the FOV or something? Using Track IR I can't move the viewpoint back and I don't feel I'm getting the most out of my widescreen monitor with the default view.

36 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

Now...does anyone know if there's a cfg tweak or anything that allows you to increase the FOV or something? Using Track IR I can't move the viewpoint back and I don't feel I'm getting the most out of my widescreen monitor with the default view.

Have you set WideViewAspect=1 in the [Display] section of FSW.cfg?

Have you set wideview in the config?

Chris