2 minutes ago, yurei said:

Interesting, with all the topics on this forum and the very transparent title of this thread, that you take any of your valuable time to post your important opinion. Shouldn't you be avoiding all of these blatantly tedious topics?

Your missing the point the topic isn’t tedious it’s the repeated nature of it, we have a new topic every 2 days on this forum about this subject, If you have a new angle on it great just post it on one of the many threads already out there. There’s plenty of topics I avoid purely as they don’t appeal to me but quite rightly still have there place but this regurgitating nature of sim vs game is just a bit ridiculous now.

Just now, Carts85 said:

Your missing the point the topic isn’t tedious it’s the repeated nature of it, we have a new topic every 2 days on this forum about this subject, If you have a new angle on it great just post it on one of the many threads already out there. There’s plenty of topics I avoid purely as they don’t appeal to me but quite rightly still have there place but this regurgitating nature of sim vs game is just a bit ridiculous now.

And yet, here you are participating.

3 minutes ago, yurei said:

And yet, here you are participating.

An what participation is that regarding sim vs game?

 

7 minutes ago, Carts85 said:

An what participation is that regarding sim vs game?

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Waste your time as you see fit. Just like the original poster and the rest of us who were having a mature, nuanced discussion are free to use our time as we see fit.

Why does it matter?  It is a question that causes all sorts of heated arguments that serve no purpose. 

4 minutes ago, kerosene31 said:

Why does it matter?  It is a question that causes all sorts of heated arguments that serve no purpose. 

There was no heated argument in this thread prior to this point, even now. This is not the controversy you seek. Of course, you too are free to waste your time as you see fit.

Edited December 21, 20205 yr by yurei

3 hours ago, Sabinede said:

Compare the numbers FS2020, 2 million, Fortnite 250 million registered users.

Let me know when the terrain from Fortnite can be leveraged for other applications including use by the military for mission planning, architectural plans, or indeed other games or sims which require a detailed real-world model which can get good frame rates on a modest computer.

People need to be aware that the development of the architecture for the MSFS terrain is not just about this flying game.

2 minutes ago, Chock said:

People need to be aware that the development of the architecture for the MSFS terrain is not just about this flying game.

This would be the subtext of my original comment.

Can we just enjoy MSFS and get over these topics about game vs sim? There are already several threads about this in past days and I think many has made there points there.

Edited December 21, 20205 yr by omarsmak30

4 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

Can we just enjoy MSFS and get over these topics about game vs sim? There are already several threads about this in past days and I think many has made there points there.

Why are you reading this topic and trying to control the behavior of others instead enjoying MSFS?

Edited December 21, 20205 yr by yurei

LOL...this same discussion has been ongoing for decades in the flight simulator community. People get so hung up on semantics.

I guess when you’re certificated and flown in the real world, it’s not as important that it’s called a simulator. I think some folks think they have more credibility if it’s called a simulator vs a game.

I’ve logged hours on FAA certified simulators and often they don’t have the realism of Microsoft Flight Sim, and that’s been true for me since FS9. So if people call it a game, or it’s marketed to the masses, so what?

If you want real world accuracy, go down to your local airport and take a lesson. 

1 minute ago, neil0311 said:

‘If you want real world accuracy, go down to your local airport and take a lesson’

LOL. I wanted to say that, but decided it would make me seem elitist!

11 minutes ago, neil0311 said:

LOL...this same discussion has been ongoing for decades in the flight simulator community. People get so hung up on semantics.

I guess when you’re certificated and flown in the real world, it’s not as important that it’s called a simulator. I think some folks think they have more credibility if it’s called a simulator vs a game.

I’ve logged hours on FAA certified simulators and often they don’t have the realism of Microsoft Flight Sim, and that’s been true for me since FS9. So if people call it a game, or it’s marketed to the masses, so what?

If you want real world accuracy, go down to your local airport and take a lesson. 

I think the original poster points were more about the developer's future investment in the software based on a more general target market. Still unknown is the state of Asobo's commitment to provide migration of C++ code for the larger commercial developers, as an example. Asobo/Microsoft, could at this very moment, decide no new features will be implemented, only bugfixes will be provided. 

 

Edited December 21, 20205 yr by yurei

That wouldn’t be so dire to me. 2020 would still be the best visual foundation I’ve ever experienced in a desktop sim (sorry for that word). Commercial providers could fill in the gaps. If I could just get my hands on a good taildragger - say, an Aviat Husky -  that could do a full-on side slip in a realistic-feeling crosswind.........

2 minutes ago, Bosco19 said:

That wouldn’t be so dire to me. 2020 would still be the best visual foundation I’ve ever experienced in a desktop sim (sorry for that word). Commercial providers could fill in the gaps. If I could just get my hands on a good taildragger - say, an Aviat Husky -  that could do a full-on side slip in a realistic-feeling crosswind.........

Again, back to the original poster, his concerns center on the software user (notice I didn't say "simmer") that may want and enjoy a more encompassing feature set. A feature set that includes more technical characteristics of real world flight.

I am primarily a GA/MIL aircraft user in the software. I like planning a flight, calculating fuel, etc. to mimic a real world flight as part of my software experience. In MSFS right now, fuel consumption/calculation is laughably wrong.

For Asobo/Microsoft to decide that accurate fuel consumption was a feature and not a bug to be fixed, this could affect some percentage of users, while the profits still roll in from the majority of sales.