The DNA of the sim also lived on as an off-shoot named Prepar3D Flight Simulator, which was created by Lockheed Martin and built using licensed code from Microsoft. It was then given to the hands of Dovetail, which ported it to Steam its main resting place to this day. That left its last big project, FSX, to live on as a semi-supported legacy project. In 2009, Microsoft shuttered ACES, the former main studio for Microsoft Flight Simulator. In fact, at that point, the series was still in a relatively odd phase of being ‘actively dormant,’ which is a nice of saying it was essentially alive in all but an official capacity. As I’ve stated in past deep dives about Microsoft Flight Simulator, the current state of the franchise is at a much higher point compared to where it was as little as five years ago. Though I’ve been enjoying it, one question keeps coming to me: what is it about these products that has people so caught up, especially now?īefore looking in the now, we need to look at the before. I’ve been flying it since launch, and it’s the first time I’ve spent so much on any add-on product for a sim in the near 20 years that I’ve been a fan of the genre. These hiccups weren’t rectified until the following day.įor an aircraft incapable of supersonic speed, the release of PMDG’s 737 carried the same thunder as a sonic boom. Even when the site was back online, purchasing was temporarily disabled as to not inundate the system further. Notably, in the case of the PMDG Boeing 737, its launch was so grande that it crashed PMDG’s site portal in a matter of an hour. And yet, simmers everywhere have been clamoring over these new aircraft for the past few weeks. In other words, within the next three or five years, if not more, those prices may not change much.
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Unlike full games, these add-ons only tend to go down in price after spending quite a while on the market. The point here is that no matter how one accesses Microsoft Flight Simulator, the core sim itself is still notably cheaper than some of these aforementioned new add-ons. Those who do choose to buy the sim outright need only spend $59.99 USD. Even in the case of fully subscribing Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, that’s only $14.99 USD spent per month to play Microsoft Flight Simulator, among other games. This is the very same simulator some folks can initially play for just a mere dollar due to it being a part of the Xbox Game Pass service a promotion that Microsoft seems to have qualms about continuing to issue to newcomers. These three payware jetliners recently released within weeks of each other for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
For $62.30 USD, $69.99 USD, or $78.94 USD, you can buy the Fenix Airbus 320, PMDG 737, and Leonardo MD-80, respectively.
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