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Perhaps arsenal82 would be kind enough to post a video for us, from "20 years" ago, that looks anywhere as impressive as the OP's...

I rest my case... 😉

Apologies in advance, Boomer, this is not directed at you, your post just happened to address a point I wanted to comment on. Sometimes this community suffers from a touch of self importance. As others have said, flight simming, in general, is a niche hobby. And this community is a niche of that niche. To be commercially viable, let alone successful, FSW must appeal to consumers far beyond this community. Did DTG listen? I'm sure they did. Then they used the feedback they received here, and factored it into their ultimate goal of making a widely appealing sim. Only time will tell if they've struck a successful balance between 'hardcore' simmers and people who just want to give flying a go.

The positives are too busy playing it to review...

And ZORK was #20... Lotta people still playing that these days?

"A happy customer tells his neighbor... an unhappy one tells the neighborhood."

Just one of a long list of skills I lack...lol

OK... I'll take a bath... it IS Saturday night after all... (and then he comes back complaining about 'ad hominem attacks...)

I'm sure I'm in the minority, in the Avsim community for sure. Maybe not in the entire FSX user base, but who knows... I've never spent a penny on add-ons for MSFS since it's primitive Sublogic beginning. In all honesty, years ago, I monkeyed around, adding freeware planes here and there, and a freeware version of my home airport at the time, but that's about it. Enjoyed MS Flight, and bought the expansion and a couple planes for that, in the interest of full disclosure...lol. Yes... I am CHEAP... and apparently, easily amused. But we ARE out there, and we walk among you...

Where, may I ask, do you get "at least a couple of years" from that?

I can, and have spent hundreds of hours doing just THAT! Give me a plane, and the world, and I am good to go.

Who am I gonna believe? Some of you, or my lyin' eyes? Looks great to me!

"One more cup of coffee, before I go..."

If it doesn't have an escape slide, I'm out...

I just want the damned thing to work out of the box...