Not happy about topic closure when the author (me) has not been given a right to reply!
Regarding Microsoft's stand regarding (fake) weapons on war planes is forcing one's ideology on another, sets a dangerous precident. I thought that the so called free world was fighting other countries that was doing this sort of thing.
Simulators by nature is an attempt at being 'as real as it gets'. Planes should represent the way they are or were. MSFS is a general flight simulator. We should be able to embrace all planes especially the magnificent WW2 birds as they really were. It's strange that all these planes are allowed in cockpit, gun sights and clickable gun switches but not graphically show the load out of the weapons in question. Importantly, the loadout affects the flight characteristic of the plane in question.so denying these weapons, the plane falls short of being simulated. I was never asking for the planes to actually do damage, I leave that to DCS.
There is hypocracy in Microsoft's stand when you consider that they condone or even encourage in Windows, game clients e.g. Steam to sell games that are death dealing, bloodthirsty, gorey and sick. Ideology should not be their game, that's choice of a free voting electorate.
There was nothing in the reply from my ticket about their E rating, not that they needed the E rating. Unlikely a 3 year old is going to be playing this. I can't see a refund likely even though they have breached UK law which would cover incomplete digital download as it would be considered broke.
I suspect that even purchasing from the developers, that Microsoft will find a way to cause your plane to be updated after a future update to the sim. So we are likely all to be vulnerable, wherever we buy.
In regard to the Corsar, nothing stated in the reply is true. This, from my ticket states the following:
By design, Microsoft Flight Simulator does not include working armament or enable deliberate acts of violence on official content (stock and 3rd party content purchasable on the marketplace). At its core, Microsoft Flight Simulator is a flight simulator. There is currently no plan to introduce combat simulation.