As Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Steam reviews collapse to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative,’ its developer has admitted it "completely underestimated" the excitement for the game.
Games as services aren’t popular – with a particular demographic. The disconnect here might be that people who tend to play flight sims are decidedly not in the games as a service group.
One reason why I play X-Plane is to avoid this silliness with streaming everything from servers (that, plus the flight and lighting models are better).
Except that you can continue to play whatever version you want without issue. X-Plane 12 is the current, but many people are still on X-Plane 11. You can remain on old versions indefinitely – because they aren’t games as a service. They’re local installs.
Games as services aren’t popular – with a particular demographic. The disconnect here might be that people who tend to play flight sims are decidedly not in the games as a service group.
One reason why I play X-Plane is to avoid this silliness with streaming everything from servers (that, plus the flight and lighting models are better).
If you consider X-Plane
nasnapproaches infinity, it becomes indistinguishable from a subscription model.Except that you can continue to play whatever version you want without issue. X-Plane 12 is the current, but many people are still on X-Plane 11. You can remain on old versions indefinitely – because they aren’t games as a service. They’re local installs.