Aerosoft heading in the right direction?

99jolegg wrote:

I'm personally all for fresh blood in the 'industry'. I think real world business shows that standards and customer satisfaction are generally driven down by a monopoly since customer satisfaction becomes the lowest denominator.

The only worry I have is that MS has been at this since....well I can't remember the year they started with MSFS but at least early 1990s. Love them or loathe them, they've created a sim every few years that (for the most part) has been in some form or another, an improvement on the previous attempt. The extent to which it has been an improvement is subjective, of course. They have had years of experience with the sim and I wonder whether all of that experience is what has created the likes of FS9 and FSX. That leads me to wonder whether something made by a new company with new developers and new code will be inferior.

The big test for Aerosoft (if they created the sim) would be to deliver a product that is both stable, usable and realistic. If they fail one of those hurdles, they'll shatter any confidence and leave everybody tied to MS. I think Aerosoft are aware of this since their reports of creating a sim seem to reek of tentativeness.

In the FS world, Microsoft has become the norm and the institution. I would hazard a suggestion as to that's why X-Plane never really had the following it could have potentially attracted.

Competition = competitiveness, and for that reason, I'm all for it. But they need to succeed and not fall flat on their faces. If they do that, they'll not only look silly and amateurish in comparison to MS, but they'll shake off any confidence they might have had before they released it...

Just my thoughts.

Well said