And Yes, The DVD Drive is Sold Seperately

"user314" (user314) 07/16/2020 at 14:00 • Filed to: Planelopnik, ms flight simulator, microsoft flight simulator

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Not Pictured: four more discs

Simulation company Aerosoft has !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that they are producing a 10 (that’s TEN ) DVD set of the new version of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for the European market. MSFS 2020 will be released for PCs on 8/18, with a forthcoming date for XBox release. Aerosoft’s DVD set is tailored for areas with slower internet speeds, which would hamper the download of the 80-90GB file. Aerosoft will also be offering a 20 DVD drive though their online store.

Even in 2020, printing 10 DVDs is still cheaper than providing a USB thumb drive, which is kind of blowing my mind.

RIP !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

Thomas Donohue > user314 07/16/2020 at 14:05

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That wacky that it’s still cheaper than USB.

Also wacky: the first version of Flight Sim I ran was on a 36 0k floppy disk. And I believe that also contained the operating system. (* May have been DD 512k)

user314 > Thomas Donohue 07/16/2020 at 14:09

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Economy of scale. It never occurred to me that you mass produce CDs/DVDs/BDs just like you do with records.

But it’s way faster than burning them. 

OhCrikeyTheRozzers > user314 07/16/2020 at 14:14

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That screenshot brings back so many memories of playing this as a little kid and really just trying not to immediately crash. For added fun, the family computer didn’t have joystick so it was punching the keys rapidly to roll the plane—left, left, left (too much), right, right, right...

So jazzed for this new  release...

user314 > OhCrikeyTheRozzers 07/16/2020 at 14:23

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Christ. I couldn’t imagine trying to play FS on the keyboard.

I took a couple years of aeronautical classes in high school back in 94-96, and we had full custom rigs similar to this:

Still put more than one C152 into the lake off Meigs....

facw > OhCrikeyTheRozzers 07/16/2020 at 14:38

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A great way to learn about pilot induced oscillation...  

facw > user314 07/16/2020 at 14:44

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Heh, saw you over in the Arstechnica comments...

In any event, it feels a bit absurd that anyone still using optical discs hasn’t upgraded to blu-ray at this point. And yet when I bought a new portable drive, I just got DVD instead of blu-ray since the blu-ray ones were really expensive (I paid $38 for my last blu-ray drive, though it doesn’t support the newer higher density discs). And actually I don’t even have any 5.25" drive bays in my current desktop though, my HTPC has a blu-ray/HD-DVD combo drive (also not up to reading the newest stuff obviously).

Thomas Donohue > user314 07/16/2020 at 14:47

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Don’t they do the same with USB drives now? Most drives I’ve ever bought had some kind of manufacturer bloatware/ software already on it.

DVD obviously could still be cheaper by the dozen(millions) , but size/weight/packaging/shipping would be less w/USB.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > user314 07/16/2020 at 16:16

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So based off this info, roughl y how big is the total file size for folks who are going to download the “game”

user314 > facw 07/16/2020 at 16:22

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I think the rise of broadband internet and streaming services meant that most people just gave BD drives a pass. I’m still rocking my 10-15 year old Cyberpower desktop to which I added a Lightscribe CD burner and a BD burner.

user314 > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 07/16/2020 at 16:28

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Depends on which version you buy, but I’m seeing somewhere from 90-150GB.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

CPU: Ryzen 3 1200 / Intel i5-4460
GPU: Radeon RX 570 / NVIDIA GTX 770
VRAM: 2GB
RAM: 8GB
HDD: 150GB
Bandwidth: 5 Mbps

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

CPU: Ryzen 5 1500X / Intel i5-8400
GPU: Radeon RX 590 / Nvidia GTX 970
VRAM: 4GB
RAM: 16GB
HDD: 150GB
Bandwidth: 20 Mbps

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

CPU: Ryzen 7 Pro 2700X / Intel i7-9800X
GPU: Radeon VII / Nvidia RTX 2080
VRAM: 8GB
RAM: 32GB
HDD: 150GB (SSD recommended)
Bandwidth: 50 Mbps

user314 > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 07/16/2020 at 16:29

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WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > user314 07/16/2020 at 16:42

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Honestly, that’s impressive given how large the game is.

facw > user314 07/16/2020 at 16:46

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True enough, but I’d think that if you had such crappy internet you were going to buy the boxed version, you would have invested in blu-ray long ago.