Not-a-pilot, not-a-dev user's last wishes for MSFS

[Ricardo41]

2 hours ago, filou said:

MSFS can close tomorrow, I don't mind. There's too much imbalance and too many "Toy" effects for me to regret.

With each flight there is something that ruins the immersion. 

The only things that don't spoil the immersion or who helps it to forget it are the exceptional performance and the ease of use and without forgetting candy packets.

I would have liked to throw my bottle in the sea too, but my wish list is too long too different from yours and too pretentious.

MSFS is the most beautiful simulator in the world but the feeling is not there by its overall imbalance.

I would have liked so much to be like the people who find MSFS exceptional...

 

 

Completely disagree. You must be playing a different simulator, or you haven't setup the simulator correctly. 

My current plane: Flysimware Chancellor Cessna 414 --> where is the "toy" effect. Can't find it. 

The Fenix A320 --> where is the "toy" effect?

The Citation Longitude AAU1 --> where is the "toy" effect?

[filou]

22 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

Completely disagree. You must be playing a different simulator, or you haven't setup the simulator correctly. 

My current plane: Flysimware Chancellor Cessna 414 --> where is the "toy" effect. Can't find it. 

The Fenix A320 --> where is the "toy" effect?

The Citation Longitude AAU1 --> where is the "toy" affect?

You read wrong or you don't take the time.

I have the Fenix and all the rest of the team...

I'm talking about MSFS which is the "toy" effect.

"You can have the best soccer players in the world and that's not why you're going to win the champions league" But I'm not sure you understand that too

[lwt1971]

24 minutes ago, filou said:

I'm talking about MSFS which is the "toy" effect.

"You can have the best soccer players in the world and that's not why you're going to win the champions league" But I'm not sure you understand that too

Riiiight... well, thanks for gracing us with your deep understanding and analysis, and for taking the time to come here and tell us this, we'll surely take that into consideration ASAP!
 

Edited May 14, 2023 by lwt1971

[FBW737]

If the rampie's aren't suicidal I'll miss my parking spot trying to suck them into the engine! 😒

[lwt1971]

Just now, filou said:

I love people like you who in the past have advised others to ignore me or not respond to my comments and can't help but do so.An emotional lack without a doubt but I 'll surely take that into consideration ASAP too!

Well you're probably confusing me with someone else (not surprising), but thanks none the same! We are hanging on every tidbit of wisdom you distill here 🙂
 

[Rimshot]

Oh knock it of please...

[DD_Arthur]

2 hours ago, lwt1971 said:

Given the amount of investing MS has done from the beginning till now into MSFS, not just in the various different Asobo teams for covering different aspects of the sim, but also hiring devs like WT to fold into the core team, and the pouring of money into outsourcing aircraft and scenery to 3rd party devs in order to give it free to us (i.e. iniBuilds A310), etc etc... given all that, they're not on a path where they would cease to develop MSFS. If anything the financial success is snowballing and therefore more investment is pouring in, and 3rd party buy-in is also growing by leaps and bounds where some of them are now exclusive to MSFS. 

I think we all here grossly underestimate how much of a success this thing has become for Microsoft and how much revenue the market place is generating for them.

We regard the Xbox sector as kids dedicated to flying under bridges inverted. The truth is this is a huge market covering all age ranges worldwide whose money is underpinning the continued and even accelerating development of this thing.

The market place, selling across platform, was a stroke of commercial genius.

[Bobsk8]

13 minutes ago, DD_Arthur said:

I think we all here grossly underestimate how much of a success this thing has become for Microsoft and how much revenue the market place is generating for them.

We regard the Xbox sector as kids dedicated to flying under bridges inverted. The truth is this is a huge market covering all age ranges worldwide whose money is underpinning the continued and even accelerating development of this thing.

The market place, selling across platform, was a stroke of commercial genius.

I see many postings on the MSFS Facebook page, posted by X box users as well as PC users. There is a very large number of avid sim users that are using the X box, and they are interested in aircraft to purchase for MSFS

[David Mills]

23 minutes ago, DD_Arthur said:

I think we all here grossly underestimate how much of a success this thing has become for Microsoft and how much revenue the market place is generating for them.

I recall from an Asobo Q&A last month that the Marketplace had already taken in almost a million dollars in sales just from the Antonov AN-225 alone, which had only been released a few weeks earlier. 

[Alpine Scenery]

10 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

It's not.  This has been discussed before. Microsoft owns Azure so running the servers for MSFS is dirt cheap. Read neilhewitt's comment on this:

Fortune 500 companies can never do anything cheap, other than manufacturing and bandwidth. It's cheap relative to what, if you bought a low-bandwidth plan at a high-end data center. Something like MSFS doesn't need perfect uptime anyhow, so some cheapo Cogent plan would probably work fine. Of course this depends how choppy the code gets during slowdowns. I know of budget data centers that cost peanuts that haven't had an outage in 5+ years. DC business is mostly commoditized at this point, it's not much cheaper for Microsoft. Bandwidth is cheaper, but not the "running the servers" part, it's actually cheaper for a smaller company because of all the red tape at a Fortune 500. I am not sure how much bandwidth MSFS uses though, it is a VERY wasteful app. If they fixed the bandwidth waste, probably dirt cheap after that point.

 

 

[bofhlusr]

6 hours ago, filou said:

MSFS can close tomorrow, I don't mind. There's too much imbalance and too many "Toy" effects for me to regret.

With each flight there is something that ruins the immersion. 

The only things that don't spoil the immersion or who helps it to forget it are the exceptional performance and the ease of use and without forgetting candy packets.

I would have liked to throw my bottle in the sea too, but my wish list is too long too different from yours and too pretentious.

MSFS is the most beautiful simulator in the world but the feeling is not there by its overall imbalance.

I would have liked so much to be like the people who find MSFS exceptional...

 

 

Just curious here. At the risk of sounding naive, what would you replace it with?

[Alpine Scenery]

It doesn't feel like a toy but some planes still feel like they bounce too much on landing. Whether or not that is my own piloting or the plane is up for debate. I would have to fly the specific planes in real-life. I mean I'm sure it's a lot harder to flare exactly correctly in a SIM than in real-life where you feel the gravity and are trained specifically for a given plane on how to flare. Just using the feel of things, I would say the weakness in MSFS is in the landings in certain planes.

Edited May 14, 2023 by Alpine Scenery

[Stearmandriver]

1 hour ago, filou said:

I will answer you later, you are too much under the effect of the time lag.

The... The what, now?  Are you one of those folks who can't use time accel either?  😁

[frank1223]

Microsoft offers around $4 per month for subscription on xgp. Sure, MSFS is not perfect but honestly why would anyone be unsatisfied for this price?

[mspencer]

41 minutes ago, filou said:

First flight of the day this morning with real weather without any preparation in different places in the world, just the need to justify my dissatisfaction in pictures for the whole fine team.

Raw photos without artifice.

I'm not going to address the obvious trolling here, but with the addition of REX AccuSeason, I can say this is easily the most realistic-looking, albeit a little overdone, simulator. XPlane 12 with the puddle situation, and P3D looking like Roblox in comparison, do not hold a candle to MSFS.

On the snow picture... I genuinely wonder if you've been in an airplane. The snow looks lovely, and yes, as depicted in your screenshot, snow can remain in localized areas of high elevation. I live near Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens, I'm driving to the airport in about 30 minutes, I'm sure I'll see snow on parts of them and not the whole thing, because it was 90 degrees yesterday.

Yeah, all the clouds look like CU or TCU, that needs addressing, and the sunsets are a little aggressive out-of-the-box.

The sim looks fine. Does it need some work? Sure. But you're not being fair and you're just here to get the rise out of people, so why bother? I would still hold that the graphics of this sim make XPlane and P3D look like what they are - architectures that have been updated to look relatively modern, but are actually 10+ years old. 

And this isn't from someone with the MSFS mindvirus - I recently switched and I can't be happier with the stability, load times, and quality of scenery. Seems like the freeware community got a burst of life again too. Good things ahead for this sim.