You don't need the Premium Deluxe Edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator

— PC Invasion:

The $120 Premium Deluxe edition of Flight Simulator is nice, but after playing it for over a week, I've had lots of fun with the base content

[IRetrouk]

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[CDbiggen]

It only includes detailed recreations of some big/famous airports right?

[ssj27]

Shameful the game is locked behind paywall microtanstration from day one wtf is this bs of premium digital stuff how t f this gets a pass good reviews by media. Obviously reviews are paid

If any other game did this it wouldn't get a pass. Sadly more games are doing it now day and gamers allow it by supporting it

[MadLad]

Mhm.

Yet another example of that MS bias that's been seen this entire generation. I almost puked when I saw all those hundreds come out for Recore, Sea of Thieves, and Crackdown.

It's disgusting that MS bought reviews for Flight Simulator from virtually the entire industry.

[Father__Merrin]

It's a great game with terrible performance. If other games don't get away with it why does this?

[MadLad]

Modern day Crysis.
There's many people running the thing just fine if they're not aiming for 4k/60.

I know it's a hard idea to wrap your head around, seemingly, but sometimes people put out tech/content that purposely is there to make use of future consumer technology.

[ssj27]

Srry but the game can run on a low end pc and i heard still looks good not been able to run good in on a high end means poor optimization.

Same with crisis it took them lie 15 years to optimize a poorly optimized game. It running on nintend switch a portable system fr f sake smlar to ps3 i performance which is when it cane out meaning it could have ru just fine on a ps3 360 but the dva suck at optimization

[King_Noctis]

My PC is Intel i7 4790 and GTX 1070. Nowadays this is a midrange spec, yet I could run the game just fine at 1080p 60fps with minor frame drop here and there in crowded areas.

Obviously the have has a high system requirement, and if you try to run it on a lower system it won't work well

[King_Noctis]

"Shameful the game is locked behind paywall microtanstration from day one wtf is this bs of premium digital stuff how t f this"

Is a huge part of the gameplay locked behind paywall?

"Obviously reviews are paid"

You know what I wonder is, if MS has the money to buy reviews for Flight Simulator, then why don't they do the same for Recore, Sea of Thieves, and Crackdown? Or did they run out of money when developing those games?

"If any other game did this it wouldn't get a pass"

You meant far worst games like NFL 2021? Or the 2K sport games? There were zero backlash over those games?

[ssj27]

Dude is like playing next rache@clark and sony with isomiac decided to throw in ps4 assets and no mpc on the ps5 game they showed and as $60 for it and charge extra money for each level to have those ps5 asset and etc its just wrong there is no excuse and that alone should hve had lowered the game scores big time but it obviously been paid to get good reviews by those who review it.

That bs has to stop if thet game has dlc or content you shouldn't be looking it period. If you wanna take extra time after the game was released and wanna sale the dlc or give it free sure do whatever you think is best but locking content should stop its hugely wrong

[LoveSpuds]

Whoever wrote this review has no appreciation of how the audience for this product thinks.

The genuine flight sim audience do care about realism, its why we spend thousands on add-ons and peripherals and MS know this and its why they are using these exploitative practices. All the noise from people who know nothing at all about the flight sim scene who are just passing through because they like pretty graphics haven't got a clue.

[Anomander]

Not to mention MS is not the ones creating all the add-ons. There are going to be a lot of 3rd party add-ons for the game. For crying out loud if MS tried to do it all this game would never have been released and as it stands in no way or form does it change the game. Most will just add either a new plane/jet or airport location.

@LoveSpuds Totally agree with you.