Microsoft Flight Simulator — Too ambitious, or too soon to call? As real as it gets? Microsoft Flight Simulator is barely a quarter of a year old at this point, yet the sim has proven to be a massive disturbance to the industry this year. Just before and right after release, Microsoft made sure to beam this new sim everywhere — and it worked, having pulled off a very successful launch. However, a noticeable amount of members of the flight sim community are not too happy with the current state of the new MSFS. Some even think that the developer over-promised what the product has actually turned out to be. But, is that really the case?