If you were Microsoft........

[Jude Bradley 659]

I'd fix their ungainly GUI interface again. Hiding all the options from the OS and dumbing it down is the most stupid thing they ever did. 

[fluffyflops 1,858]

Just now, Jude Bradley said:

I'd fix their ungainly GUI interface again. Hiding all the options from the OS and dumbing it down is the most stupid thing they ever did. 

agreed

[lwt1971 7,420]

5 minutes ago, Lucky38i said:

You know, it may not be the best sim in the world. However, for Asobo's first serious attempt at a flight sim, They did a pretty good job to provide and out-of-the-box experience that no other sim has accomplished. It isn't without it's flaws, but this comment just seems a little word not allowed to me.

💯 .. and by little I presume you mean a lot, of the horse manure kind 🙂 

[MattNischan 3,780]

5 minutes ago, fluffyflops said:

because 4 years down the line we have a 787 with a ton of issues which they cant be arsed to fix

This is off-topic, but I'd be interested to hear what those might be. Keep in mind that our involvement with the 787 only began with AAU2 (we haven't been a company for 4 years yet).

Our intention was never to go to the PMDG level. Instead, we wanted to provide something that could be used correctly for normal ops, with a good, featureful, and faithful avionics and navigation experience within that flight regime. Our type rated 787 test pilots give it, honestly, quite high marks given those criteria, and they had no issues using their personal flows for normal ops they use on the real plane to also operate the new 787. Yes, the aircraft is in the premium package, but the goal was never to make it a $79.95 aircraft on its own.

As for the other developers you mention, a number of them are already on the WT team. So, I'm not sure sacking them would provide the benefit you imply. 😉

[ca_metal 2,025]

First, they should buy ASOBO. They are an awesome studio (not just because MSFS, but they have other amazing titles). Then, yeah, they should expand their team working on MSFS, hiring some of the talented people working for 3rd parties. 

[Drumcode 1,893]

BeyondATC guys + HifiSim. With both they'll fix the three most botched systems in this simulator. ATC, AI and weather.

[ha5mvo 255]

If I was MS I'd take no one on board but rather open up the platform for developers who know what to do to actually be able to do what they know...

Otherwise you're stuck with the inibuilds of this world - mid tier stuff at best. While top tier developers will keep struggling with a sandboxed, unstable platform that keeps shifting the goalposts every couple of months.

[kt069 569]

Pilot2atc and GSX team (FSDT)

Edited January 25 by kt069

[guibru 474]

You have to think, before buying third-party publishers on MSFS, you must first be interested in the very basis of the game. So ASOBO is first the #1 choice. 
Even if ASOBO has so far always refused the offer of Microsoft.

[fluffyflops 1,858]

1 hour ago, MattNischan said:

This is off-topic, but I'd be interested to hear what those might be. Keep in mind that our involvement with the 787 only began with AAU2 (we haven't been a company for 4 years yet).

Our intention was never to go to the PMDG level. Instead, we wanted to provide something that could be used correctly for normal ops, with a good, featureful, and faithful avionics and navigation experience within that flight regime. Our type rated 787 test pilots give it, honestly, quite high marks given those criteria, and they had no issues using their personal flows for normal ops they use on the real plane to also operate the new 787. Yes, the aircraft is in the premium package, but the goal was never to make it a $79.95 aircraft on its own.

As for the other developers you mention, a number of them are already on the WT team. So, I'm not sure sacking them would provide the benefit you imply. 😉

The fact its flies like a block of flats

the fact the doors are wrong 

the fact that ND on the skippers side doesnt work on random flights. 

the pitch 

the trim 

the brakes.

other that its great..... 

 

 

Edited January 25 by fluffyflops

[bobcat999 8,484]

I wouldn't.  As Dominique has said, bigger is not always better.  Let the little teams flourish as well.

What I would do (if they take customer involvement and feedback so seriously, as they say they do), is form an MS Flight Sim users council, to give input, and ask why certain high profile problems aren't being tackled, such as the tile swapping issue, and the low bandwidth issues.

But they wouldn't want that would they.  It would need too much accountability to the customer / user.  The technical report they issued (which 90% of users would find hard to follow) isn't much use if they aren't going to act on it.

And do I really have to install the Goole map hack to get my ground tiles looking right and stop the swapping? 
Last night, around Darington was a right mess.  But what do we get?  We fixed Malta, then radio silence.  It is almost beyond a joke!

Also, I gave up trying to do the ATR and MU-2 updates last night.  A quick speed check showed I was getting 42 mb/s, but only 1.5 in the MSFS content manager for some reason.  Frustrating.

While the base sim has its problems, it takes the shine of the great contributions that other people are making, such as WT and FBW.

So buy someone?  No.  They just need to get their own job done first.  They can always have a teaming / technology sharing / cooperation agreement if they wanted to.  I would definitely start with A2A and Fenix to coordinate with for a start.

Some of the other things suggested like a tie-up between Black Square and Carenado would be a match made in heaven, but they don't need to be part of MS / Asobo for that to work.

 

Edited January 25 by bobcat999

[Pilot53 544]

Definitely hifi, maybe they could explain to them how weather works.  Then a2a, so they could explain to them how aerodynamics and piston engines work.  Then fenix, to teach them that airliners dont behave like cessna 172's,  and teach them how turbine engines work.

Edited January 25 by Pilot53

[spinoza 48]

8 hours ago, Donka said:

Imagine they bought Carenado then paired them with the likes of BlackSquare for system depth.

For system depth, acquire Xtreme Prototypes and release some study-level planes with 300+ page manuals: XP Gates Learjet 25 SE v3.0 Manual (xtremeprototypes.com).

[spinoza 48]

2 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Their Computers are unfixable when they break, which is normally about 2 years. 

Change coming:

California Passes Right to Repair… | Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. (reinhartlaw.com)

[Flyfaster_MTN002 412]

None. They are laying people off in gaming post Blizzard acquisition....