Thebonehead
Banned
Not bad for a niche game
Some other stats:
- 500 million flights
- 40 billion miles flown
- Equivalent of 10 million trips around the Earth
- Equivalent of 200 round trips from Earth to sun
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Flight Simulator passes 10 Million players
- Thread starter Thebonehead
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Not bad for a niche game
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Well done Flight, you're a testament to how far reaching this medium of video games is and how different each person or gamer experience is within a game.
You have to love some great tech mixed with solid execution for a game.
You have to love some great tech mixed with solid execution for a game.
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graywolf323
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I'm curious what the mean & median for playtime is among those players
I dabbled a bit but quickly realized it really wasn't for me so I probably have less than an hour in the game, Game Pass is nice for being able to try things like this out but I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of players are similar to my experience
I dabbled a bit but quickly realized it really wasn't for me so I probably have less than an hour in the game, Game Pass is nice for being able to try things like this out but I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of players are similar to my experience
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Ghost of Caelid
Banned
I’d love to see a MS space simulator. Similar to flight sim but..yea you get it. Elite dangerous but with a big budget.
Skifi28
Member
"Oh look, there's my house" and uninstall most likely.
BusierDonkey
Member
Nothing more relaxing that hopping in a small plane, tossing a dart at the globe and seeing just how empty and beautiful the world is. Some places on Earth may as well be alien landscapes.
ManaByte
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HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
I still try it out from time to time but I get bored fairly quickly.
From the air it looks nice though
Landed at my home in Jupiter Florida and I can assure you it doesn't look like this
From the air it looks nice though
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
I've never been into flight sims, but I tried this out when my son downloaded it on his Xbox and.......I'm still not into them. If your an aviation nut then I see the appeal and it must be a real thrill, but I can't get into it. It does look amazing, I'll give it that.
GHG
Member
I still try it out from time to time but I get bored fairly quickly.
Landed at my home in Jupiter Florida and I can assure you it doesn't look like this
From the air it looks nice though
Quick, send that to Mr. Guillotine. I'm sure it will satisfy him to know you live in the midst of desolation.
Thebonehead
Banned
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
I will buzz the tower and look
I had my neighbor kid believing that not only was the weather real time but I could see him when he was outside, he said he was always waving up at the sky when he was outside, he was about 10 at the time
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
Kerbal Space Program – Create and Manage Your Own Space Program
Build spacecraft, fly them, and try to help the Kerbals fulfill their ultimate mission of conquering space.
www.kerbalspaceprogram.com
and there's a sequel coming out in 2023
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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The interesting thing here is pilots and enthusiasts for aviation are just as addictive as "true gamers/genres", some log hours or certs for craft etc for their pilot occupation. It's quite common for a player to log hundreds and thousands of hours, just like whales in a traditional video game. See
M1chl
post above.Sure, there's the casuals, just like my daughter and myself, we'd be in dozens or maybe 100+ hours all up. It happens with any game. Take a look at GoW Ragnarok or Halo, they achieve like 30% story completion early on and rarely push past 50% of players ever completing the game at all. The industry wide metrics are quite similar in how it plays out per title, even whacky old "not really a game" MS Flight.
When you look at some numbers of just pilots in the world -
Now factor in aviation enthusiasts, uncertified pilots training, gamers, pandemic lockdowns, streamers, reviewers etc etc. It's a 40-year-old franchise, it deserves some respect with insanely technical standards beyond anything any game has ever sustained for 4 decades and a very closely monitored industry. Given the success and innovation in the current version of Flight the studio has delivered a truly one-of-a-kind game engine. At some point basically every single one of those pilots has been in Flight for extended periods, for 40 years.
Mark my words the world and backend systems in Flight are going to become gaming industry standards or at least kickstart/leapfrog such integrated cloud technology to streamline and automate much of game development pipelines and dynamic worlds that games inhabit these days. It is far easier and resource saving to apply algorithms, shaders, geo-mods etc over these real-world systems to deliver a "real game" outside of Flight sims and into other games genres. Take the Maverick DLC and make that an arcade game, boom, shit is waiting for a studio to pick that up and make the "game part". Populate all mountains over 5,000 with a dragon egg on top. Weather systems swing with variations over real time ones e.g. make small real storms into raging electrical storms that damage players or alter terrain when striking.
There are real gaming opportunities here from the innovation Asobo have delivered with Flight. I foresee an Unreal add-on coming for Flight systems. I just hope licensing and adoption with a little vision makes my predictions a reality. These sorts of automated cloud systems are becoming intrinsic and even almost mandatory to deliver large scale games online these days, irrespective of the actual game mechanics or genre.
If one was to have a little vision and resources things like the metaverse and AR are ripe for Asobo tech to expand into.
EDIT: Case in point, a number of Asobo staff become certified pilots during working on Flight. Asobo's CEO just got his private pilot's licence recently as well.
EDIT2: Here's a little stat for you, Flight related accessories at $2.5Billion over 3 years, with a B for Billion on just hardware accessories e.g. flight sticks, pedals, controls. That's not your casuals claim of less than 3 hours total played buying all that hardware for years, it's the aviation/enthusiast hardcore going all in all the time.
EDIT3: Here's just the Steam stats for Flight, Xbox would be larger, as we've seen with all first party titles from MS.
Average total playtime and session times are massive, that's the nature of having to fly real flights to train/log your pilot hours. Now find and add Xbox stats to these.
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I love this simulator sooo much, i think its amazing everytime i take-off and loves every minute off it, sometimes its just hard to belive its not real. I even bought equipment for it, trying to learn to fly as realistic as its possible for my smal brain to achive
If its one game i see myself play until the day i cant play anymore, its this.
One thing i wont to add, that for me is so nice with this. When i was 13 me and my parents moved to the outskirts of a small town in sweden, so we lived on the countryside. I got to meet 3 other people in my age that lived there too, well, it was a couple of km between us, but we could walk or whatever to meet. So for the next 4 years or so we more or less got together everyday after school and other commitment we migh had, i played fotball alot for example. So anyway, we just had an amazing time, we fished, build woodhouses in the forest, made hockeyrinks on the frozen lake etc etc, just an amazing time of my life even though it was hell at home with a mother drinking and just beeing evil. We groove up, moved away but still got together and all that, but not in the same way.
What i can do nowadays is to take a bushplane and fly from my current hometown, fly it to my childhood countryside, put it down on an akre and just sit there and remember everything and getting a feeling of actually beeing there again in my head, more then once had i have actual tears from my eyes, tears of joy and memorys. Good times
If its one game i see myself play until the day i cant play anymore, its this.One thing i wont to add, that for me is so nice with this. When i was 13 me and my parents moved to the outskirts of a small town in sweden, so we lived on the countryside. I got to meet 3 other people in my age that lived there too, well, it was a couple of km between us, but we could walk or whatever to meet. So for the next 4 years or so we more or less got together everyday after school and other commitment we migh had, i played fotball alot for example. So anyway, we just had an amazing time, we fished, build woodhouses in the forest, made hockeyrinks on the frozen lake etc etc, just an amazing time of my life even though it was hell at home with a mother drinking and just beeing evil. We groove up, moved away but still got together and all that, but not in the same way.
What i can do nowadays is to take a bushplane and fly from my current hometown, fly it to my childhood countryside, put it down on an akre and just sit there and remember everything and getting a feeling of actually beeing there again in my head, more then once had i have actual tears from my eyes, tears of joy and memorys. Good times
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gaming_again
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Flight Sun will always have a place in my heart because it takes me back to the time of the CD-ROM and 3DFX. PC gaming was so exciting then. Every year things kept forward.
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Mr1999
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Yeah, bought the deluxe on day 1, it's the only game that I would permit taking up 305 GB of my main sk hynix p41 drive. I just wish for more study sims and maybe next level scenery, wish there was more, but that's not a complaint either im sure eventually it will reach that. I want space simulator like mentioned here. I guess there's always kerbal space program 2 which is due out soon.
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Hawking Radiation
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Congrats.
Still the most "realistic" game in the market.
Still the most "realistic" game in the market.
DaleinCalgary
Member
Great game and has potential for years of upgrades.
Thebonehead
Banned
I still try it out from time to time but I get bored fairly quickly.
Landed at my home in Jupiter Florida and I can assure you it doesn't look like this
From the air it looks nice though
Buggy Loop
Member
I’m also part of the club that installed this >100GB game only to fly around the house and then uninstall 
But it’s because I told myself that I will give this game justice when I finish my renovations at home in the basement and setup again my warthog HOTAS + TrackIR 5 / VR to give this a real spin.
But it’s because I told myself that I will give this game justice when I finish my renovations at home in the basement and setup again my warthog HOTAS + TrackIR 5 / VR to give this a real spin.
nightmare-slain
Member
i was enjoying it until the xbox version came out. i play on PC but they messed about with the PC version and changed how some things control. i'd love to get back into it but i found the changes frustrating.
Guilty_AI
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gaming_again
Member
Space Engine creeps me out (in a good way).