I can imagine how everyone will react when the full version of FSX comes out.
--- 6 Months Prior
------ Fanatics jump with joy and make looooooooooooooong discussions that repeat for at least a month.
------ Fanatics kill time by flying the old version and post endlessly at a forum and forget that they have a life [if they ever had one to begin with].
--- 3 Months Prior
------ Fanatics then report many articles, screenies and video of the new sim.
------ The reports cause anxiety amongst FS fans
--- 2 Months Prior
------ A demo is released [first the first time in the history of the cosmos]
------ Those who wait for the demo have probably been sitting in front of their computers for days and have completely failed to notice that the electric bill is piling up due to non-stop use of the computer and have had their fingers sitting in the left mouse button and ready to hit "download" the moment the countdown reaches "0" seconds.
--- 1 Month Prior
------ People start to pitch their tents in front of Best Buy, Walmart, and other places that sell FSX like they did when Star Wars Episode III came out. I can imagine the strange rituals at this point.
--- Day of release
------ People start fighting over a box of FSX like it was Lord of the Rings.
------ Those who have survived and then got the box start to countdown the minutes it takes for them to reach their home and start counting down again as the computers takes 10 minutes to finish starting and then count down "another" 30 minutes as they install FSX. And when they finish, they find out that their computer can't handle the sim and then they start counting down the days again before they get a new computer.
If I'm missing anything, please let me know.
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