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here ya go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJvLzJgZo2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJvLzJgZo2o Don't get me wrong - the game is beautiful, but so much abo
by avazhi 5y ago
here ya go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJvLzJgZo2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJvLzJgZo2o
Don't get me wrong - the game is beautiful, but so much about it - the way updates are handled, the lack of proper 'deep' add-on support, and the marketing - are done in a way that is frustrating to the point that many users give up, so poorly baked that large developers (PMDG) have had to spend years on something that should have probably taken 3-4 months (essentially porting their 737 from FSX/P3D), or cringeworthy, respectively. I get that Asobo is its own studio, and people might criticise me for taking some pretty specific criticisms and generalising them to the entire company, but from the interactions I have had with Microsoft - Xbox Live, Windows, Office 365, the office iPhone apps, Outlook, Edge - those sorts of issues - frustrating, half/poorly baked, and cringeworthy - are elements that absolutely permeate Microsoft's entire product line. There'd be a certain charm to it if it was just cringeworthy and noting else, but the fact is their incompetence (or whatever it is) makes life harder than it otherwise would be - and that's a big no from me.
I mean, as a random aside, I've been a huge Flight Sim fan since FS9, with tens of thousands of hours in FSX, XP11, and P3D. MSFS should be the final word, but the fact is I haven't touched it in months and I'm just looking forward to XP12, with graphics that are from 10 years ago but with a fucking developer platform, and a developer itself, that just seems to 'get it'. Microsoft doesn't.
Like I said, I'm not predicting their doom as a company, but I think it bodes ill for them in the longer term as developers and even some users gravitate towards entities that don't feel like they're constantly working against them in frustrating ways.