Sorry for how I worded my statement. I was refering to the quality, Shockwave lights aside, noone has even touched that in quality yet!

Fly the section 8 Sabre, then fly alphasims Sabre, and you tell me,would you give $30-$50 for a single plane when the same quality is available for free? Also, look at PT's stuff, top notch there.
My remark about FS11 and payware reflected on the out of box quality for needing addons to make it look better.
FS9 needed payware to get it looking perfect.
FSX only needs it if you are very particular about your flying enviroment, I can fly VFR in the stock world and still find my little town with no problems.
FS11 if they continue this jump in quality, could make enviroment enhancing addons un-needed altogther.
In my opinion payware aircraft are already obsolete. The freeware developers have caught up, and the economy has made the prices too expensive. And as I said, I paid $50usd for Each sim. I can't justify having to pay another $30-$50 for just one plane or airport when the sim needed to run them cost the same amount. The prices don't reflect what you are getting out of the deal.
I'm not trying to take away anything from what the payware people put into their products, I am sure they are excellent and worth money in some fashion. It's just that the people who couldn't afford to buy it have figured out how to make the same things for free and are giving it away now. It's time for a major revolutionary breakthrough in payware to get ahead of the curve again. Every plane out there has been made a hundred times over in both pay and free ware.
If you want my money, try to figure out how to make something fly up into space in FSX, NOONE has done that yet.

Or figure out how to see under the water so submarines and other such things could be utilized. It's time for something new. Not another Cessna or 737.
