Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:16 pm
I understand that your "not for entertainment purposes" agreement with Microsoft is a perfectly reasonable non-compete with general retail sales of FSX and Flight (which everyone I think expects to be more game than sim).
May we hope that anyone serious enough about simming to shell out 500 bucks will be taken to have stepped slightly beyond simple "entertainment" and so use by hard-core hobbyists might be tolerated (as long as they have the good sense not to log support calls!)?
After all, to get to that point they've almost certainly already bought FSX and won't be in the market for any game-oriented offerings from Microsoft.
May we hope that anyone serious enough about simming to shell out 500 bucks will be taken to have stepped slightly beyond simple "entertainment" and so use by hard-core hobbyists might be tolerated (as long as they have the good sense not to log support calls!)?
After all, to get to that point they've almost certainly already bought FSX and won't be in the market for any game-oriented offerings from Microsoft.