So I see everyone being sooo dissapointed in flight, and others thinking it is going to be the bomb.
From what we know. how can anyone be so sure?
There has been a lot of dissapointing talk about it. And personally I don't expect too much at all. I also do not want to be disappointed.
The 2 biggest things that I question about it, (which I believe are the make-or-break factors of the sim) is:
1: Will the entire world be available?
Now from what I have read, (and I am not too sure how valid this info is, at this time) the entire world will NOT be modeled. If this is true, this is a major breaking factor.
2: Will a SDK be available? from what I have read, there will not be one available. Which is VERY disappointing to read.
Personally, I believe those are the 2 most important factors in this sim... game... or what ever you want to call it.
But for everyone getting disappointed already, try to keep in mind, this engine has only been in development for a very short time, (in comparison with previous MSFS sims).
Things may be reconsidered, as time moves along. Perhaps by 2014 MS Flight will be up to par with FSX, or beyond. Keep in mind that this sim has not even been on the market yet. It is a completely new team working on it, with different priorities. Think of what MSFS 1 was like, and how it progressed up until FSX. It took almost 25 years to come to the perfection of FSX.
I think many people under estimate how much work it really takes to make a product like FSX. I can't even comprehend how many man-hours went into programming the FS engine., because we are talking in the millions. If not Billions of man hours.
Microsoft flight would be lucky to have 500k man hours of development. Thats nothing compared to what they had.
it is unfortunate that they sold it to lockheed. But maybe it isn't? what if in 5-8 years lockheed turns FSX into somthing that we couldn't even believe came from FSX? Then what would you say? I don't expect that to happen, but it is still out there (thank god )
Well I don't know what else to say for now, but I think people should give Flight a flying chance. It hasn't even had its first release. It has to get around, and the Devs have to get around the block to really understand what has to be made.
So I guess I am trying to say, be patient. The Egyptian pyramids were not built overnight. And you cant expect a worldwide sim to be built overnight either.
Give it 5 years.
then come back to evaluate it.
Then you will see it's true form, (or at least where it is headed towards)
PS- I am not a Flight advocate. I believe it is just a infant, and it has potential. Whether it turns out to be good or not is still to be known.
Never judge a book by its cover.