https://www.pcgamer.com/best-innovation-2020-microsoft-flight-simulator/

Well done, and here's hoping to much more groundbreaking stuff to come!

This award was a no brainer. Congrats to the team! 

Congrats. 💯

Congrats. This will make some people not happy 👀 

 

 

15 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

Congrats. This will make some people not happy 👀

Probably those "I'd not be proud if my sim was named in that category"-guys? 😄

Don't worry, they can still critizise that it's a game award. 😉

But... but I was just reading here earlier today that MSFS is getting a terrible reputation because everything they do is effed up and that people are not optimistic about its future and Asobo are really screwing the pooch on this one.

 

24 minutes ago, tweekz said:

Don't worry, they can still critizise that it's a game award. 😉

Oh, right.  It's a game award.  Well no wonder, then.  This kind of stuff may be acceptable in a game made for knuckledragging gamers, but it's still totally unacceptable for hard core simmers like me.

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Edited January 4, 20215 yr by kaosfere

Flew the sim with my Dad over the holiday break, and we were able to pinpoint places where he grew up by following a mountain goatpath...then we did a virtual family visit out in Ireland. I couldn't have even imagined sharing this type of an experience not too long ago...

17 minutes ago, kaosfere said:

But... but I was just reading here earlier today that MSFS is getting a terrible reputation because everything they do is effed up and that people are not optimistic about its future and Asobo are really screwing the pooch on this one.

 

Oh, right.  It's a game award.  Well no wonder, then.  That's because MSFS is a game made for knuckledragging gamers, but it's still totally unacceptable for hard core simmers like me.

😄

Spot on mate 🤣🤣

 

23 minutes ago, tweekz said:

Probably those "I'd not be proud if my sim was named in that category"-guys? 😄

Or those who say "it is a game not a real sim" or it is just an "eye candy" 😂. 

No matter how hardcore your sim or peripherals are, if you can't log it real life it's game or whatever you name it 🙂

To use just a little bit less snark...  I think the comments about how poorly MSFS is being received (which there are plenty of around here, I wasn't just setting up a strawman there) are somewhat valid...  if you're in the extremely narrow niche of a niche of folks who are depending on one thing or another that the game doesn't do well right now.

The problem is that that is a niche of a niche, and those folks don't get to define what "success" means.  They have every right to say what success would mean to them, but projecting their own dissatisfaction upon the entire marketplace is rather solipsistic.  Once you get out of the bubble of super-involved people with extremely high demands and an extremely low tolerance for technical issues, MSFS is going gangbusters.  The amount of positive press and mainstream critical acclaim is astounding compared to where flight simulation has been for a decade plus.

And this is a good thing, for even that "super hard core" crowd, regardless of whether or not it injures their own sense of importance relative to everyone else who plays the game.  Because that's what will provide the financial success for Microsoft and Asobo to stick to this as their 10 year project, and not have it end up like Flight did.

Ladies and gentlemen we have a great visuals ! So what is wrong with that! We also have super dedicated developers and awesome aviation enthusiasts, pilots, engineers you name it  who develop  excellent free mods that make sim better every day! I'd say we should encourage Asobo to be better sim developers. Hopefully they will fill inspired with our encouragement and continue enhancing and fixing MSFS. And yes we need gamers who will bring revenue for this enterprise and who hopefully become simmer..and more hopefully become real life flight students! So look at the bright side!

 

Finally! yippee ki yay, I absolutely love that! 🙂

 

12 minutes ago, kaosfere said:

Because that's what will provide the financial success for Microsoft and Asobo to stick to this as their 10 year project, and not have it end up like Flight did.

And these folks who are in their bubble will tell you "Microsoft will drop MSFS like how it did with FSX" 😄. Never understood these people why being so defensive and wishing MSFS to fail, isn't that what we have been dreaming for? Isn't competition good for other sim that push them out of their comfort zones and start innovating for the better?

Time will tell anyway .

41 minutes ago, kaosfere said:

To use just a little bit less snark...  I think the comments about how poorly MSFS is being received (which there are plenty of around here, I wasn't just setting up a strawman there) are somewhat valid...  if you're in the extremely narrow niche of a niche of folks who are depending on one thing or another that the game doesn't do well right now.

The problem is that that is a niche of a niche, and those folks don't get to define what "success" means.  They have every right to say what success would mean to them, but projecting their own dissatisfaction upon the entire marketplace is rather solipsistic.  Once you get out of the bubble of super-involved people with extremely high demands and an extremely low tolerance for technical issues, MSFS is going gangbusters.  The amount of positive press and mainstream critical acclaim is astounding compared to where flight simulation has been for a decade plus.

And this is a good thing, for even that "super hard core" crowd, regardless of whether or not it injures their own sense of importance relative to everyone else who plays the game.  Because that's what will provide the financial success for Microsoft and Asobo to stick to this as their 10 year project, and not have it end up like Flight did.

Anyone who uses 'solipsistic' in a sentence gets my vote 😉.  Well said Kaosfere!

But will it win 'Best Covid-cancelled Holiday Sim 2020/21'? 😉 I bet there are a lot of people 'travelling the world' in a way they are not currently able to in real life right now.