Ahh yes, Wikipedia...the only encyclopedia who's users can supply their own information...
There is a reason that those of us in the college acadermic community frown upon its use as a reference.
Ahh yes, Wikipedia...the only encyclopedia who's users can supply their own information...
There it is, right on the cover of my copy of FSX Gold.
Games for Windows.
Microsoft evidently considers FSX a game too, so I guess that forum is in the wrong category too.
cheers,
Joe
You made the statement that you and your college academic community frown upon using Wikipedia as a reference. Will you tell me why so I will know if I am breaking some kind of rule.
www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulatorx/
www.microsoft.com/games/flight/
Flight is Microsoft's successor to FSX. Both Flight and FSX are classified as games by the publisher and retailers no matter how much that ruffles serious simmers' feathers. I can't help but think it's a little bit pretentious to insist that flying make-believe airplanes on a computer screen MUST be called a simulator and not a game. And I say that as I'm paging through a detailed XB-70 checklist and making an IFR flight plan. Keep Flight where it is.
You made the statement that you and your college academic community frown upon using Wikipedia as a reference. Will you tell me why so I will know if I am breaking some kind of rule.
................ As you probably already know that Wikipedia favors consensus over credentials. In simpler terms getting the acceptance of many minds even though one original dissenter may be a professor at Harvard. I learned this, not by completing my graduate degree at USC, but in a major corporation that made decisions based on reaching consensus of many at all levels of education. ...........
Game or simulator. I suspect that MS Flight will not be getting a certification for use from the FAA any time soon for use in instrument training
What MS call FSX on the box is not really relevant, after all a Porsche tell us a Cayenne is a 4 wheel drive off roader
FSX like all MS entertainment products has a game label only due to MS wanting a streamlined product category. Otherwise there would be debate about what catagory any game could go into. Car race "simulations", game or sim. Halo, game or futuristic military simulator. Game covers everything and saves the arguments. As for FSX, the title tells us everything we need to know no matter what is on a flag in the corner of the box. FSX, Flight Simulation 10.
MS Flight in MS's own words is a game, advertised as a game, sold as a game and aimed at the gamer market.
For these reasons, it should be in either "games and software" or possibly "other sites"
That's my opinion
Matt
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