I’m telling you, the day this thing hits my drive, all the other civilian flight sims are getting uninstalled. This one looks to have all the things I want in one package.
Dont be too sure mate…
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Yeah I am amazed about what I see but I’ll definitely wait until I can see more of it and/or play myself.
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I’m already tired of all the additional things I need to make any other sim on decent level. This one looks like it already has anything I want from a flight sim out of the box. Big corporation behaind it means big capabilities. The fact that we will get the whole world in photorealistic detail, great weather simulation, lots of different types of planes, working ATC (which other flight sims still didn’t implemented properly). I know it’s too good to be true, but I feel optimistic about this new FS release.
A big accountancy department too… if it doesn’t make them money, the bean counters will kill it without a second thought. I hope I’m wrong. 
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As they killed MS Flight, Fsx devs company, …
OFC I want msfs20 to succeed, but I not started on civil flight sims since yesterday, so, adding all the experience and companies behind it, i’m very conservative here…
Also as mentioned, I not only fly the scene, I fly the aircraft, and msfs20 on release will have a super constellation? dc6? tu-154m? an-24? No! so for sure even if i have msfs20 i will not uninstall the others.
The same way i will not uninstall EF2000 or bms (were i can fly in places that no other mil sim can) because dcs.
As i still have hdd/ssd space i will have them all.
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I can see your points. But I feel that the new MSFS will be groundbraking with its novel concepts which no other dev team could dream on bringing to the flight sim market. It’s big opportunity for us, flight simmers to really enjoy something that the casual gaming crowd could enjoy for years - big budget product.
In regards to mil sims, I still have my old DOS and early Windows library sitting on my HDD and since it doesn’t take much space it will stay there for a long time. Those old classics are so diverse that IMHO are irreplaceable by a single product.
Oh, don’t get me wrong… it’s going to be something special. The only thing I’m being skeptical about is the long term financial support of Microsoft. Not for one moment do I doubt that the sim will be groundbreaking.
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Since it’s going on Game Pass also for XBox in near future, I think the majority of the present and future costs are already accounted for.
I also think this is beginning of something bigger, the applications for such tech are numerous.
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I also expect it will be. However, if VR doesn’t come along soon after its release…
…I should add a witty retort about Austin Meyer banging his shoe and exclaiming that XP will bury MSFS 2020…but that will take too long…
…did I ever tell you all that I saw Nikita Khrushchev’s son? He was a professor at the US Naval War College while I was there…I was walking by his office one day, glanced in and there he was…looks a lot like his father…except both of his shoes were on his feet. 
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Wow that’s a seriously cool bit of bragging rights
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Now that is Funny! 
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I read that he died, the other day, BTW.
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I’m hearing rumors of subscription required model being used.
I hope they stick with traditional release + DLC/expansions model. Otherwise, instead of MS FS, it should be called iFlying then.
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Thats one way to kill it, LOL
Not sure how they would be able to pull off a sub model with third party devs though.
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Yes. Of course, iRacing does it all themselves AFAIK, so that’s not an issue there, yet they do sub + addon pricing. That makes it really pricey for most people.
If they plan on allowing 3rd party planes, MS would certainly have an issue then between the 2.
Huh. I was sure that I read something about it being both. Either being subscription based or just a regular payment model…
Depending on the pricing policy it could actually be cheaper than P3D 
Imagine 1 USD/EUR per each day you fire it up… I would go for it. But only if 
of course.
I expect some sort of subscription.
I’m hoping they give an option for a traditional release purchase without a subscription, but sacrificing the max detail terrain, etc.
Let me ponder this a bit…
…so, IIRC this sim will use real world scenery that one would download as need be. I’m sure there is more to it, caches and such…but, is that not essentially the idea? Thus one needs a internet connection and some type of log in to some the of server?
If…
…and that’s a big “If”.… (see what I did there… 
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If MS regularly updates the scenery…just say a bridge gets built, a tsunami wipes out California, a new island emerges in the Pacific, a White Castle opens in our neighborhood (one can only hope…the White Castle not the California thing…although…) …and MS adds/subtracts edits the scenery; releases it the next time you log in…then a subscription model might be desirable…hmmmmm