So arguably, MSFS is already a success with the large number of copies sold, and the large number of freeware add ons available already.  But MSFS can become so much more and I think Asobo has the right attitude for it to succeed.  At the last Twitch Q&A, I was really impressed with some of the people Asobo brought in to answer questions.  They brought the devs from Working Title and FBW to give an update and answer some questions from the community.  What has impressed me about Asobo is that where they were weak with the G1000 & G3000, they brought in Working Title to shore up the G1000 and G3000.  Asobo was humble enough to acknowledge that Working Title could provide more value if they focused on the G1000 & G3000 development.  With respect to FBW, other game companies wouldn't have put up with the legal issues and probably have just ignored the FBW team.  But Asobo reached out to Airbus to settle the legal issues, worked with FBW on the legal issues as well, and once those issues were resolved, we now see the FBW A320 in the MSFS marketplace!

One commonality in all these developments with WT and FBW is that Asobo listens to the community.  I am really impressed with the monthly live Q&A on Twitch where the community can interact with Asobo and give them feedback and ask questions.  Other game companies do not do this with their community.  The fact that Asobo listens to the community, allows the upvoting on topics, and reacts according to the community is one of the best parts of how Asobo works.

Finally, Asobo has a great vision for MSFS.  From the start, they said they wanted to make MSFS not just for casuals, but also for hard core simmers and real life pilots.  The hiring of Working Title to improve the G1000/G3000 shows how serious they are about making MSFS an advanced flight simulator that can satisfy even the hard core simmers and real life pilots.  And of course, they are making the SDK more advanced so that companies like PMDG can step in to make the high fidelity airliners (the CRJ is already a success and shows that high fidelity airliners are possible, not to mention the FBW A320 is also headed in that direction).

Since MSFS has come out, this is the golden age of flight simulation for the home consumer market.  If Asobo keeps this attitude, the sky is the limit for MSFS.

 

Edited May 31, 20215 yr by abrams_tank

100% agree we are lucky to have developers that engage with the community in the way that they do.

This could have easily just been a trailer at E3, following by months of silence and finally a release with maybe a yearly update.

But instead we get a team of developers that post a weekly update on the roadmap of MS & who engage with the open source community in making it all better.

I am excited for the next 10 years ahead!

Just now, highflyer2020 said:

100% agree we are lucky to have developers that engage with the community in the way that they do.

This could have easily just been a trailer at E3, following by months of silence and finally a release with maybe a yearly update.

But instead we get a team of developers that post a weekly update on the roadmap of MS & who engage with the open source community in making it all better.

I am excited for the next 10 years ahead!

So there wasn't Twitch back in the day.  But there were forums.  And I don't recall a forum for FSX where the community could interact with the developers of FSX and the devs of FSX would answer the questions from the community when FSX was released.

But even if there was such an interaction between the devs of FSX and the community (which I don't recall, but maybe there was), I think there was like one patch within the first year after FSX was released.  One patch, lol.  How many patches have we had in MSFS and it hasn't even been a year yet?

MSFS has surpassed FSX in so many ways, it's not even funny.  It's just night and day between FSX and MSFS.

I thought this was a pretty good video. He is a commercial Pilot. I don't agree with him on everything, but I think he made some good points. 

 

 

5 minutes ago, abrams_tank said:

So there wasn't Twitch back in the day.  But there were forums.  And I don't recall a forum for FSX where the community could interact with the developers of FSX and the devs of FSX would answer the questions from the community when FSX was released.

But even if there was such an interaction between the devs of FSX and the community (which I don't recall, but maybe there was), I think there was like one patch within the first year after FSX was released.  One patch, lol.  How many patches have we had in MSFS and it hasn't even been a year yet?

MSFS has surpassed FSX in so many ways, it's not even funny.  It's just night and day between FSX and MSFS.

Not every patch has been clean but I will take frequent patches that add functionality at the risk of things being slightly broken every now and again over a yearly patch cycle! 

The great thing from my point of view is we're now seeing good progress in all area's of the sim. Yes there will still be issues now and again, but i believe we are heading in a great direction now.

Also Microsoft aka Jörg should be given a lot of these credit for reaching out to the community and involving it more. I think without him, MSFS won't be where it is today 🙂 

26 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

Also Microsoft aka Jörg should be given a lot of these credit for reaching out to the community and involving it more. I think without him, MSFS won't be where it is today 🙂 

Agreed.  Jorg has done an excellent job in reaching out to the community.  In all the Twitch Q&As, you can see he is reading through the Twitch chat, to see the feedback from the community.

I wonder why they do not make Working Titles G1000 / G3000 as standard avionics with the latest update?

Edited May 31, 20215 yr by Ixoye

11 minutes ago, Ixoye said:

I wonder why they do not make Working Titles G1000 / G3000 as standard avionics with the latest update?

Matt has already mentioned here that they have decided to build NXi from the scratch and thus no longer need Asobo's code. He said this will come as early access in marketplace sometimes in July before it makes its way into the sim as default replacement for the g1000 

15 minutes ago, Ixoye said:

I wonder why they do not make Working Titles G1000 / G3000 as standard avionics with the latest update?

Give it time... 🙂

19 minutes ago, Ixoye said:

I wonder why they do not make Working Titles G1000 / G3000 as standard avionics with the latest update?

Just copy pasting the mods into the sim is not really feasible and also not desireable for many reasons.

The NXI we started from scratch will be a good basis for the JS SDK in general and a good path to great and optimized avionics in the future. As we are able to take all the learnings from the past months and put them into this new baseline.

Edited May 31, 20215 yr by dga711

9 minutes ago, dga711 said:

The NXI we started from scratch will be a good basis for the JS SDK in general and a good path to great and optimized avionics in the future.

Sounds good... can we expect the "USER" waypoint to disappear from the scene when a Direct-To waypoint is activated? 😉

You know it’s real when AVSIM has more positivity than the MSFS forum itself.

The last Q&A I could see the constant criticism was starting to ever so slightly affect their morale. While some criticism is warranted, they’re really taking the sim seriously, and it’s going to take time before it’s really visible to the community.

Kudos to Jorg and team!

I think for the main part they are heading in the right direction,  also happy to see MS in the addon market as that gives them incentive to keep at it.

Think that they are letting themselves down by refusing to contemplate letting anyone read or write weather properly though.

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