Yes, no it isn't yes. In my opinion it is, in his opinion its not and in their opinion its a maybe. 

The base edition is $60.   You can make three random selections from my Steam library, and two of those will probably be games totaling $60 that I only played for a couple hours then forgot about.  $60 is the cost of taking your family to the movies in any metropolitan area.

What's the risk?  The amount of sturm und drang you'll submit yourself to if you read the mess this thread is likely to become isn't even worth that $60.

I have deleted my XPlane and P3D installations and now only run MSFS.   If you are the sort of simmer who thinks that the only way to have fun is by following detailed checklists and managing an autopilot while it flies you through a realistic RNAV route, with a plane that implements every single switch in the cockpit, you will likely be disappointed.

For anything less, I think it's totally worth it.  And people who give you a blanket "no it's not" should be ignored.

(As should, for that matter, anyone who tells you "absolutely, yes" in no uncertain terms.)

I can almost guarantee you one thing: even if you're not playing it now, you probably will be later.  Though its devotees will argue it, P3D is likely an evolutionary dead end.   So why not try it out now and see if you like it enough to stick with it, or just back burner it until your favorite Switch Flipping Simulator plane gets released?

Edited March 9, 20215 yr by kaosfere

50 minutes ago, 13ifs40 said:

Right now in my opinion it is just eye candy and lacks functionality

Absolute nonsense.  

Just sign up for a month of Gamepass and find out. No need to even ask the question.

My personal opinion is that for c£50, it's a bloody steal.

Edited March 9, 20215 yr by spacedyemeerkat

4 minutes ago, kaosfere said:

If you are the sort of simmer who thinks that the only way to have fun is by following detailed checklists and managing an autopilot while it flies you through a realistic RNAV route, with a plane that implements every single switch in the cockpit, you will likely be disappointed.

Actually I don't even think that's true. In the same way that you can run through checklists with a paper poster of a cockpit, you can do it with any cockpits that don't have functioning switches. It's not like if you throw a match out of the window your fuel will explode; at the end of the day it's all pretend.

There might be some things which don't function, but in all honesty that was true of every other sim for a couple of years after their release until fancy add-ons started showing up, so MSFS is no different in that respect and in many cases it's better. It really has lit a fire under the freeware developer part of the hobby, so that alone means it'll work out cheaper than any other flight sim when it comes to add-ons.

Edited March 9, 20215 yr by Chock

100% worth every penny. Incredibly immersive simulator, especially when using the Working Title CJ4, the FBW A32NX, or the Working Title G3000 mod with the TBM 930. You experience some situations that are so realistic it’s mind boggling. 

It has room to grow, but man is it already so good. Aerosoft is about to release their CRJ next week, and that airplane looks amazing & might be the deciding factor for a lot of people to get the sim (first payware near-study level airplane in the sim). But I’m enjoying it the way it is. The folks at Working Title have done phenomenal work with the CJ4, implementing a custom flight plan management system and autopilot functionality. Same goes to the A32NX team - the A320 neo gets closer to being amazing each day, and as soon as VNAV is finally thoroughly implemented (soon), it’ll be completely ready to fly imo. 

And this “eye candy” you talk about is better described as “graphical realism.” As in the clouds look real. They’re volumetric. The ground has real 3D grass. Autogen trees and nature are vastly improved over previous sims. Photogrammetry is a game changer. Imagine being able to successfully conduct a VFR flight by solely on looking out the window and at your sectional to know where to go! 

 

I am / was a huge XP 11 fan (and before that, FSX/P3D), but since MSFS came out I haven’t felt the urge to open XP even once. It’s that good. I almost exclusively flew the Zibo 737 on XP, and I’ve essentially given up flying it because doing so in the XP sim environment just doesn’t feel as amazing as flying anything else in MSFS.

Edited March 9, 20215 yr by FlyingInACessna

Sign up for Game Pass for $1 for a month, and you can try it yourself.  If you like it, you can buy it outright.

Yesn’t

31 minutes ago, ErichB said:

Absolute nonsense.  

Really ?

5 minutes ago, Nick_h said:

Really ?

Did you really say, 'really'?

I was a big fan also of P3D and XP11 but impossible for me to look back or try again.

Difficult not to make one flight a day with MSFS 2020.Each flight is unique and surprising. I am completely addicted and it completely boosted my enthusiasm. I fly 3 hours a day and I deserted the forums a bit for this unique reason.

MSFS 2020 is the simulator of the future without a doubt . 

Over time the bad mouths will close and there will be only one simulator except for the nostalgic.

It's like moving from Windows 95 to Windows 10. 

1 hour ago, 13ifs40 said:

opinions would be welcome

definite yes for me. go for the neo mod

25 minutes ago, ErichB said:

Did you really say, 'really'?

I can confirm in response to your question about whether he really, really, really actually said really; yes really, he really did say really. Really.

Not this again, really, thread #4356 on the same old same old.