https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/live-dev-stream-submit-a-question/615993

This time they have a form you can fill out instead of just making a post on the forums.

So they transformed an open process of users beeing able to see all questions and vote to a black box solution. Not my understandig of "communication".

1 hour ago, Tom_L said:

So they transformed an open process of users beeing able to see all questions and vote to a black box solution. Not my understandig of "communication".

This is a bizarre shift, the forum structure with Votes was alright and seemingly worked (not that they ever picked all the top voted questions) but to hide it behind a wall and no doubt get inundated with the same questions to sift through? They've given themselves a ton more work, doesn't make sense to me.

Let's all submit the form asking them to bring back the voting lol.

Submitted two questions and made a comment about the new way of asking them...



...then I opened the link again and it allowed me to ask 3 more...🤐😄

1 hour ago, MarcG said:

They've given themselves a ton more work,

I doubt it. Imagine a politician inviting you to a citizens' consultation this way: " I will answer some questions sent to me over time. It will be questions I deem worth answering. You will have the possibilty to write more questions onto a whiteboard during the consultation and I will choose some I like".

Would you attend?

Edited November 9, 20232 yr by Tom_L

1 minute ago, Tom_L said:

I doubt it. Imagine a politician inviting you to a citizens' consultation this way: " I will answer some questions sent to me over time. It will be questions I deem worth answering. You will have the possibilty to write more questions onto a whiteboard and I will choose some I like".

Would you attend?

hehe true, the way I see it is they already have their questions and this Form is a polite way of pretending that they're gonna ask some community ones. Hence they got rid of the Voting format so people can't ask why the top 5 most voted for questions never got answered, good old MS eh!?

3 hours ago, MarcG said:

Hence they got rid of the Voting format so people can't ask why the top 5 most voted for questions never got answered

This, and ONLY this is exactly the reason why they switched to this other method of gathering Q&A question. Sometimes the only thing I wonder is why they think that we users are so stupid not to instantly realize it...

It probably has a lot to do with them avoiding questions about 2024 getting voted up

12 minutes ago, Krakin said:

It probably has a lot to do with them avoiding questions about 2024 getting voted up

If this is true, I hope they bring back the voting system for questions after MSFS 2024 is released. I really like the voting system, it gives a way for the community to tell the MSFS team, which questions and which issues are the most important and need to be addressed.

19 minutes ago, Krakin said:

It probably has a lot to do with them avoiding questions about 2024 getting voted up

Even though on the form it says the following so they could've just ignored those anyway;

We are not ready to talk more about Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, so please refrain from asking at this time.