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X-plane 12 is off to a slow start? Third party developers are not jumping on new aircraft or scenery like they did for X-plane 11. But I switched to X-plane 11 in 2019, X-plane 11 had been out for 2 years. I have too much invested in X-plane 11 and an old computer I am not buying X-plane 12. I plan to buy a new computer later this year and I want to see X-plane 11 with the graphics turned up all the way. And my new computer will the biggest mofo money can buy, since this will be my last computer in my life time. 64 years old now, I have 15 years max in my life time and I am out of here and going to a better place. I may never buy X-plane 12, If I like what I see in X-plane 11 with the graphics turned up full blast. Either way X-plane is the BEST flight simulator and the only true flight simulator on the market today. Microsoft develops games, not flight simulators. Done with my rant. See ya in the air, copy that!!

Rick310 I agree with you on the buying of ac's that only last until the next version of X-Plane comes out. Yes I know a few of the authors of planes make the past planes free for the next x-plane up grade but it takes awhile for that to happen. I too have spend some heavy chump change on my sim and other downloads. The best thing I did was build my own PC for just flying. It cost me about $1200 but I made sure it had all the fastest and best systems available at the time and this was in 2022, best thing I ever did. I do have XP12 from the day it came out and still use XP11 for most of my flighting because like you I have paid for way to many XP11 planes that won't fly in 12 at this time. I also purchased MSFS and for me it was a disappointment, it all looks great but for me it takes to much time to set up to go fly and with all it's beauty, to me it is still only a game and not a real flight simulator and yes I know they don't claim to be a flight simulator. I have had (3) real planes in the past, Skyhawk, Skylane 182 and my last was the Comanche 250, so flying sim or game other than then X-Plane is a waste of my time. I am also an electrician that became a electrical contractor and later became a general contractor and that lasted for 38 years, retired now and must have over 3000 hours on my X-Plane sim. I was trying to format a external drive on my computer about 3 weeks ago and the format went to my c drive by mistake, it cost me over $1200 dollars for a computer service to recover 90% of my data, still had to reload all and any programs I needed so I know about the cost of play flying but I love it. I also lost all of my online Flight Log Book. You are free to contact me if you want. Cheers

I don't think 12 is really off to a slow start. Developers are definitely focused there. The issue is the update was significant enough to warrant enough work from developers vs previous years (like moving from 10 to 11). There's just more work to be done per product, and any developer who has been around these upgrades in the past knows that initially X-Plane is a moving target in new major versions. Laminar is still doing a lot behind the scenes, and developers are in constant contact providing feedback and trying to iron things out. X-Plane 11 is dead in terms of the future. The overall customer market has already shifted to 12 (already 70% of add-on installs are for 12 when the choice is available). As X-Plane 12 is not really all that more demanding than 11, I would suggest you download the demo of 12 if you have not already and give it a shot. You may actually like the performance. It's especially gotten better over the last few builds.

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