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I was affraid to write this post, once I read Tom's post. Which I shouldn't. I agree that anyone posting has to respect the other colleges. But criticism is part of the forums itself, I do remember a LOT of criticism about FSX, and still, but in most cases this conplains has made others to look for solutions and improvements. If we are affraid of posting when we are not satisfied or have a conplain, then no answers, solutions or improvments will be done. A forum in which only product nice comments are allowed wont be very trusting. I don't use FSX because my system just can't handle it in the way I like, so I still use FS9, I didn't like Flight either and unistalled it, but I keep coming back to this forum looking for opinions and improvments and hoping that at some point I will be in a position to download Flight again. Nice comments and non nice comments are important for me as long as it shows the overall evolution of the product, once the negaive comments disapear because those issues are solved the product turns more interesting. It has happen already with FSX, at the very begginning many many comments were negative, but they faded with time. Please reconsider the position and allow negative and positive comments in this forum, let the time and updates silence the negative ones. I hope that I wont be banned here because of this post Regards, and happy landings to all fellow captains

In fact it was the opposite, MS ignored "hard core simmers", so don´t expect them to buy a product which is not complaying with their (our) expectations. Hard core simmers were long time waiting for MS to developpe a new flight simulator.

Well it matters, because after the initial realease, all new releases are supposed to follow the market tendency, and that's my point, is it turning? But a good answer to dismiss my question is that the scenery is not meant to be destroyed. Turning it to a combat game would mean a lot of scenery replacement, I guess

Now the P-40, an addition to the P-51, and the A6M2 Zero, sure it is not combat flight simulator still, but the skies are getting full of war planes without cockpits. I'm afraid this will be the direction in which flight is turnning to. Only the maule, as a civilian aircraft has been released. What do you think guys?

WOW!!... wise words I absolutely agree with you, forums are intended to be places in which we can tell what we think, look for answers, help, gather and share, Forum comes from a word meaning a place to share opinions. Everybody must be able to disagree with a product and be able to write it down. For instance if I wanted to buy Flight add ons, I would like to be able to look for all the opinions in favor and against, just to make my mind.

Probably because we feel the need to tell our thoughts, and probably an open complain about something... isn't that what the forums are made for? to express our opinions, look for help, and or help others? some opinions are in favor some are not...so...

sure we do, but every time it has different weather conditions, traffic, ATC, loads, and also system faults (not always thanks God)

Mmm, It is exactly what made FS so popular, and created this great big comunity of fans. You were able not just to create missions, instead, you were able to create sceneries, reacreate "your world" ( the place where you live), your favorite airplane, your custom texture.For instance, everytime I bought a new version of FS, I sadly found out that my home airport MROC was not detailed, then I did it for 2000, 2002, 2004, and shared it with everyone on the web, so they could also have the same experience I had, and expanded and better experience.All that, has gone with Flight ( ok, ok, at least at this time). Costa Rica's Flight expansion pack, mmm probably will never happen.

I absolutely agree with you, how many hours do I need to play a game to start liking it or not??, I bought FIFA 2012, I loved it from the very first second, it impressed me, arguing that you need more time to like a product is not valid IMHO, it depends on people, you may like Flight from the very first momet, why not? or just dismissed it?"News flash: Nobody cares how "hardcore" you claim you are. Just because you played FSX for a while does not mean your opinion is somehow more valid than someone who is playing Flight for the first time. " Hardcore or not hardcore, well if someone spends tons of hours playing a game, he might have a better knowledge to judge a similar game, and his/her opinion somehow counts.

Ok, now I have some new good points, thanks for that,Lightning ( enhaced)sounds (enhaced)Physics (enhaced)Inmersive sensation ( NEW one )Fun factor ( enhaced)I agree that the inmersive sensation is a new one, a good new one. Of course it is derived from all the above in the end. In previous Sims I didn't have that inmersive sensation, you alway felt behind the monitor unless you added TrackIR for instance.

Ok, one fine answer to a question without comparing, can you see it Great Ozzie, it is possible.

good point, You might have to. My point is, we already know what FS9 and FSX has, now with that in mind, go ahead and point out the new features, I was trying to avoid the tons of replies telling me what Flight does not have and the fixes made.

Hi everybody,I have read a lot about Flight and FSX and comparasions between these two plataforms.When a new game is released you expect it to be awesome, innovative, with so much more than previous game releases in order to succeed in todays market.Could someone here please post the real new features this game has, but please, don't write about enhacements, as long as I'm looking for real outstanding new features, not improvements, fixes etc. Improvements, fixes are for existing games, upgrades not for new ones.What makes this game outstanding, different, innovative. Please don't start comparasions, because we should not compare and old obsolete plataform with a new one, we all know that Flight is not FS11.Thanks guys

I have to agree with your numbers, I believe that the FS comunity is far larger than 40000. Myself for instance, I have to nephews 12 and 14 years old, both of them avid simmers, but when it comes to buy add ons, or download freeware, it is me and my account who does that for them, so they are not reflected in the 40000 scope ( indeed they did buy the FSX )I think that the biggest problem was that FSX was so though in you PC that most of us decided not to run it or buy it until patches or less expensive PC were able to manage that software. In most cases that never happen, it was not until now that we finally are able to have descent frame rates on FSX. When FS9 came into the market, it was also true that full settings were difficult to acomplish, but never that hard than FSX. That I think discouraged many many simmers to buy the product, and that's why FSX was not a Bestseller, instead of looking at the reasons behind this failure, MS decided based on numbers ( money) to close the project.My two cents

Very interesting, so asuming this is right half of the FS comunity downloaded my scenery MROCv2.zip, ( 19032 downloads just in this website, regardless the other two in which is available). That is something I didn't dream of. But seriously, check this article in which I find a different account for FS consumers: http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsh/downloads/chapter1.pdf" In the year 2000 The GuinnessBook of Records confirmed this by reporting that as ofJune 1999 Flight Simulator had sold a massive 21million copies worldwide.That is in 2000, as population grows and accesibility also grows, I guess that the numbers should increase.