Growiel

I play only on my laptop as I currently live in South Korea and my desktop is back in France. I have very good performances and no VAS problems. I have an MSI GS60 Pro Ghost edition. The time when laptop had crappy performance is gone, you can have very powerful laptops nowadays.

For completion sake, FSX:SE also does not need it.

I am have a clean Steam install on Windows 8.1 that's not even supported and everything works flawelessly. The livery manager, the plane, the installer... It's not an "incomplete platform"'. The challenge for PMDG was creating a unique installer that detects if you hace FSX, FSX:SE or both on your system. If they just released an FS:SE only installer, it would have have worked a while back.

Successfully bought, downloaded and installed on FSX SE! Works great, looks awesome. I'm going to do that Tutorial flight now. Thanks guys!

The only reason FOR NOW would be Active Sky Next, but they are actively working on it. Olivier Girard

This is somewhat short sighted. You have boxed FSX as you like it, that's great for you. What about those who don't ? I don't have FSX boxed version. I don't want FSX boxed version, this is 2015, I'm done with boxes, especially with my job making me moving around a lot. You say FSXSE doesn't offer anything more, and you are right (it does offer better FPS out of the box), but it also does not offer anything less except ASN for now. It's a great way to get new people into the hobby and instead of bashing it, you should be welcome it. If you don't want to buy it, that's fine. Steam Edition opened the game to quite a few new people, and I know of at least 4 that are waiting for the new installers to buy the PMDG, sure it's not much, but why should a company pass up on it ? Olivier GIRARD.