I find Matthias quite annoying. He tends to blab on and make himself seem more important than he really is.

I'm waiting before I get excited about 3rd party products because as amazing as this sim is it's already pretty complex out of the box. It's going to be a fine line between complexity and performance.

I have the same pangs of skepticism about any 3rd party developer's comments regarding a specific flightsim, as I do for expert and anonymous reviewers. I remember, when ORBX jumped feet first onto the XP bandwagon, everything was rainbows and unicorns. After all, why not? It broadened their market.  PMDG's comments regarding MSFS fall into the same category. My advice is to wait until 18 August and make your own decisions  about purchasing add-ons. All I will say is for the most part, money will be better spent on MSFS 3rd party aircraft than scenery, but that's just my opinion.

5 hours ago, jabloomf1230 said:

I have the same pangs of skepticism about any 3rd party developer's comments regarding a specific flightsim, as I do for expert and anonymous reviewers. I remember, when ORBX jumped feet first onto the XP bandwagon, everything was rainbows and unicorns. After all, why not? It broadened their market.  PMDG's comments regarding MSFS fall into the same category. My advice is to wait until 18 August and make your own decisions  about purchasing add-ons. All I will say is for the most part, money will be better spent on MSFS 3rd party aircraft than scenery, but that's just my opinion.

I agree with your comments. I am waiting before I decide to jump on this particular bandwagon and not going to rush out and buy this at first release. Lets see how this new platform develops.

Having said that and from what I have seen/read, I am cautiously optimistic this will be the future platform of choice.

6 hours ago, jabloomf1230 said:

I have the same pangs of skepticism about any 3rd party developer's comments regarding a specific flightsim, as I do for expert and anonymous reviewers. I remember, when ORBX jumped feet first onto the XP bandwagon, everything was rainbows and unicorns. After all, why not? It broadened their market.  PMDG's comments regarding MSFS fall into the same category. My advice is to wait until 18 August and make your own decisions  about purchasing add-ons. All I will say is for the most part, money will be better spent on MSFS 3rd party aircraft than scenery, but that's just my opinion.

Sorting out the grain from the chaff is always a good intellectual hygiene. But after the apocalyptic vision that some at Avsim have maliciously propagated about the quasi-impossibility to have TPD products for FS20 or, at best, not before years and only for Xbox gaming, it is rejoicing to see real developers to be so positive. They are dissipating a cloud hanging above the new sim.

Honestly I don’t remember that Venema said anything else about XP than he was an agnostic (his word) in matter of simulators and was broadening his market.

Randazzo’s comments are interesting at two levels : he is balanced but pretty positive this time when he was a bit less (understatement) for Flight and FSW, a striking contrast,  and, as I said in another thread, he also sends a message to the P3D team, move your behind or else.

Hans Hartmann of CRJ Fame helped Asobo? 
 

Oh no, we’re doomed. That is some scary stuff right there.