barryamelton
@barryamelton@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 1 week ago:
Sims are a captive market: all enthusiasts just buy it once, and there’s limited number of enthusiasts. Companies either have finite money and resell the same sim again and again, or over promise and under deliver.
To break a captive market you either increase customers (not gonna happen, in fact simmers and interest in aviation is trending down compared with the 80s and 90s), or remove the market part altogether.
Removing the market is the solution: be need an open source sim for the community by the community. Sims and libs that can aglutinate all work done in academia, gaming, and different styles of sims under one umbrella, bringing a symbiosis work that is way better than the separate parts. We need to pull a Blender.
We are in 2024. Sims suck. They barely are multi threaded. They need to reimplement all planes again and again, losing all info in what they falsely call themselves “a sim museum”.
We can do better.