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Hopefuly the Majestic Q400 will fly in msfs before the last Q400 will retire IRL.

Quote from Chris Makris on the PMDG forum: So do not expect PMDG to make it compatible with SU3 before the official release.

Look nice but not sure I want to drop $120 on another 737, especially a classic one.

It wasn't enough to have "wars" between P3D, msfs and XP users, now we have "wars" between msfs and msfs24 users.. Oh well! Internet is old enough for you to know that there are no winners in those kind of wars. You won't convaince the other side that your choice is the best! Add to this, that the choice made by a another user that you don't know and that you will probably never meet, add or sub nothing to the enjoyment you have with the sim you chose. Yes, believe it or not, some users still have some fun with fs2004 or fsx and good for them, it is their business after all, not yours, not mine!

Let me grab some popcorn and good seat...

Just discovered that and yes it is a game changer, even on my old Geforce 1070. But as I don't really believe in miracles, what are the drawbacks? I tested it just during 10 minutes in VFR and I see no difference at all in term of quality. No CTD. I tried to load a flight with the Fenix and it seems to work fine too. Fps are much higher.

So far so good on my very old system. Mayve just a placebo effect but I think the performances are much better.

The fact that too many time, I'm weak and buy an add-on airport. Then I tell myself that it is wasted money as I only use it when I fly from/to this airport and that the most airport in your collection, the less opportunity you get to fly back at this airport as you have so many. I'm even ashamed that there are aiports I bought that I never used. And lately, I was even ready to buy a new one then fortunately realized on time that I already bought it a few months ago. I know this is stupid but it's like an addiction. I could keep the money to buy the aircrafts I would like to buy, like the 77F or A350. But it's like an ddiction. Surely, because I see a sale, it's just $10 and voila... 😞

Personnaly, with the superb freeware option, I don't get the need to buy this one at full price as the price asked is quite heavy. Now, it will be on sale soon or later and I might reconsider at that time.

People always refers to Fenix in that case. For sure, the A32X CEO is a bargain and of course, I would be delighted if their NEO follow the same path. BUT.... they started from ground, they were really unknown, with no proven release before the CEO. They had a reputation to build. Now that their reputation is made, we will see if their future NEO will still be priced that low. Let be honest, they would be stupid not to raise their prices. If they sell the NEO 30% higher, they will still probably sell it. It would be interresting to see the sales pictures compared to PMDG. Does PMDG sold more 737 than Fenix sold A32X? PMDG can count on the Xbox market, something Fenix can't.

The fact is that whatever people think about PMDG, they make quality product, that are fairly good from the start. That 777-200Er for msfs24 is the perfect example. doesn't need 8 updates to make it flyable. It's not cheap but you know you will get a good product overall. Now it also depends of your utilization of the product. For someone flying once a week or less, yes it is expensive. But for someone flying everyday, I already had a lot of flights with my 737 so the costs per flight is not that pricy. You buy the 777-200Er now for msfs24, you will be able to fly it for a few years. Even if the 737 is a few years old now, it still work like day 1 and if you stay on msfs, you will probably be able to use it for many more years. Also compare the price of an aircraft with the price of a scenery. I recently bough MK-Studios KSEA. With the added taxes in Europe, it costed me around 21€. The scenery is really nice and I enjoy it. But for the price of 3 scenes which I will only use when I take off or land from/to those airports, I could have bought the 777-200ER which I can use it for every flights. Of course, most of us probably have more than one aircraft add-ons, so you don't always use the same aircraft but overall I think I get more value when I buy an aircraft compared to the value I get when I buy an airport scenery. Flight sim is also our hobby if we are here. Some people put money into cigarettes, some other into booze, restaurants, etc. I don't live like an hermit but I prefer to spend my money on some add-ons that give me fun for years instead of buying some beers for a night of fun and having to deal with an headache the next morning. Each to his own like we say.

Forget all your dreams about FlyTampa or Flightbeam airports. yes, it would be nice to have most airports done by those guys but they are mainly solo devs and it become quite impossible for them in 2025 to develop new big airports. Just look at how long it took Mir to build KSFO. And it still need to update KDEN and KMSP so it might take a while before we see some pics of KPHX. Same for Flytampa, they still need some updates to bring their former release to msfs24 so they probably won't release new sceneries like hot cakes. MK-Studios and Inibuilds seems to have a bigger team and they are able to release more airports. So now, in 2025, they are really the devs to count on. And by the way, they really improved even if I think Flightbeam & Flytampa are still a notch above. The last scenery from MK, Seattle is really well done.

you don't need to put a web site under maintenance to make some modifications. So I don't really think it is the cause of this down time.

History always repeat. We had this same debate with FS9, then FSX, P3D, msfs and now msfs24. Now that P3D is history, the war switched to a msfs vs msfs24 battle! What is funny is that Sim X users bash the X+1 sim then a few years later, then adopted X+1 sim but start to bash the recent X+2 sim. msfs works well for most of us, it still work today and it will propably still work in the future. But it's not the future! Devs need to see the forecast way in advance and I can clearly understand that they have to focus toward this new sim because, even if some don't want ot admit, this is the sim msfs users will use the most in the future. Yes it has a rough start, it wans't ready at launch time, nobody deny that. But better days are ahead of us. But guess what, we will have the same debate over and over when msfs28 or msfs29 will be launched.

Man, if you can't wait less than a month to have your 77W and 77F to work in msfs24 and feel obliged to buy the 772, you are the first to blame! And btw, as I assume you already bought the 77W and/or 77F for msfs, they still work in that sim you know! I might buy this 772 later this year, but I won't rush, I have patience and can wait. And I can wait for my 77W to be msfs24 ready.