Clued Game Development

Andy Mahood, columnist on game simulations (that is, games that are simulations, not simulations of games) at PCGamer, gave the product of the year award last year to Microsoft Flight Simulator which, in his view, narrowly edged out IL-2 Sturmovik. According to this month’s column (July), not only did the Sturmovik developers try out their ideas in public at gaming message boards and other online forums, the company has been collected bug reports and enhancement requests there as well. They’ve been issuing “an aggressive series of patches” whereas “Microsoft recently issued a statement saying that it would not be providing any sort of patching process for the bugs found” in their product.

Concludes Mahood: “Is it too late to change my vote?”

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