@fluffyflops  Did you, at one time, lose 5 Quid on a payware aircraft or similar?  You seem to do nothing
but bash every developer out out there!

I got some Aerosoft sceneries last updated probably about 2 to 3 years ago... And i am not even talking about 2024 combability...  

Unfortunately, the majority of the modern gaming landscape pretty much plays homage to Early Access development philosophy. 

Heck, most everything is this way; cars, computer hardware, phones, etc.

Ship it NOW, maybe fix it later.

It stinks but its the product life society as a whole has cornered ourselves into.

34 minutes ago, VeryBumpy said:

Unfortunately, the majority of the modern gaming landscape pretty much plays homage to Early Access development philosophy. 

Heck, most everything is this way; cars, computer hardware, phones, etc.

Ship it NOW, maybe fix it later.

It stinks but its the product life society as a whole has cornered ourselves into.

Yup the TFDi Design MD-11 "early access" marketing was prime example of such.

 

22 hours ago, fluffyflops said:

 

Ive been saying for over a decade, as a community we have embraced and quite happily accepted half baked junk and pay to beta with our wallets, so  in return the Devs have responded in kind and given us half baked junk and pay to beta. Wether that be aerosoft, inbuilds or orbxs

Don't blame the Devs there just in it to make money , you blame the community that let it happen by giving them the money and the carte blance to do it 

Its been happening for years Chris 

 

And additionally, at each alpha/beta update, which are many of course, the community happily accepted saying that's good because the product in question is well "sopported".

Take numerous examples, being the most recent the IniBuilds A350 (obviously not an airport, but the example fits very well in concept), with at least more than 15 updates in a relatively short period of time.

Fully agree with the OP.

Edited September 24, 2025Sep 24 by edpatino

I made a mistake in my opening post. EIKY Kerry is an IniBuilds product (not MK Studios).

The core sim should really have addressed these airport issues.  Unfortunately it’s not a priority, as evidenced by the lack of progress on the world hub concept.

1 hour ago, Gilandred said:

The core sim should really have addressed these airport issues.  Unfortunately it’s not a priority, as evidenced by the lack of progress on the world hub concept.

You know MSFS 2026 will come along just as this version becomes stable and considered complete by the developers. Wash, Rinse, & Repeat.

 

6 hours ago, charliearon said:

@fluffyflops  Did you, at one time, lose 5 Quid on a payware aircraft or similar?  You seem to do nothing
but bash every developer out out there!

Yes ive lost plenty of money on rubbish addons hence my opinion, and no i dont bash every dev, go through my posts youll see i think fenix,tolis, hifi and navigraph are fantastic for example.  Professional players in the game, not some pound shop cheap gash operators like the alot of the others 

Theres tons more bad ones than good ones, but in my opinion they dont care, they just out bash some unfinished junk, wait for the sales to dry up and then do the same again or just reband/change their name  

50 minutes ago, tpete61 said:

You know MSFS 2026 will come along just as this version becomes stable and considered complete by the developers. Wash, Rinse, & Repeat.

 

its about money, nothing more and nothing less. 

On 9/23/2025 at 7:34 PM, fakeflyer737 said:

Ini is particularly awful. 
 

I’ve had issues with several of their sceneries and have contacted them via their support and haven’t heard anything. 

youre lucky they not banned you for an opinion on a product that you spent money on

3 hours ago, tpete61 said:

You know MSFS 2026 will come along just as this version becomes stable and considered complete by the developers. Wash, Rinse, & Repeat.

 

Very true. Before 2024 even hit the market, I knew it would be plagued with problems. And it was. So will the next thing. I can’t reward developers with that philosophy. So maybe FS2020 will be with me for a long while. 

It’s also disappointing that 25 year old FSX had things still not in MSFS…

• AI aircraft that flare.
• Helicopter AI (3rd party)
• 9 different offline voices
• Default ATC that wouldn’t fly you into a mountain
• Good GA traffic at small airports
• I could see an AI model beyond 1/2 mile (LOD)

MSFS is graphically superior but there’s more to a sim than how pretty it is. 

On 9/23/2025 at 3:09 PM, Bob Scott said:

Huh??  I've never heard of any association between FlyTampa and TowerSim--that's a Feelthere product.

Then you haven’t been paying attention…

here’s an “article” for you

https://fselite.net/content/flytampa-sydney-airport-now-available-on-tower-simulator/

Edited September 25, 2025Sep 25 by UAL4life

20 hours ago, fluffyflops said:

correct once they have your money and the initial sales have dropped off, they move onto the next thing.  Why waste time fixing a centre line when the kids couldnt care less about such like.  You move on to designing the next airport burger king interior eye candy for the next product once its nearly done and just about sellable,  you throw a copy to the influecers to shill and the cycle starts again. its been happening for years and alot more so since 2020 came out

Also throw into the mix the army of complelely unqualfied twitch partners that influence other young naive gamers to buy these rubbish products (and ban anyone else from the websites or streams that question or cristise the product)  This is the strategy of many things in 2025.

Its a win win for both the devs, (they make profit), and the influencers they make a bit of money. and dont have to get a proper job. 

The only loser in this is the customer that can see the shoddyness of the products as Chris has mentioned.

    

Financially is not viable to keep making updates; 1 piracy; 2 sim keep changing; it work till it work basically; always keep it in mind; any addon life these days can be long or short; is only a matter of luck. Influencers are on all forums; majority will likely have free products or even be paid; to spam.

Edited September 25, 2025Sep 25 by Marc22

I wonder how many of the complainers here have done any scenery development.  An update is not just a few clicks and 5 minutes work.  More often than not attempts to fix problems especially minor ones lead to unintended changes and a supposedly quick project takes days.

So, the principle by which I sim of 'suspension of disbelief' which involves looking the other way or ignoring minor defects allows me to enjoy scenery knowing the developer has probably better things to do than correct minor faults.