I was thinking this same thing. I work in tech and if something screwed up this big we'd immediately roll back the release and kick it back to engineering...
Now that all said, this now explains why my map got corrupted on my device and it kept saying my devices map and the map on my app didnt match. And there was no way to resync them. The ONLY option was to factory reset it and then set it about on mapping runs for the next three days to relearn my house. I consider not being able to resync the map from the app back to the device another huge failure as well.
We used to have a MicroCenter in the SF Bay Area. It was in Santa Clara near the Great America theme park.
The landlord raised the rent on the retail space dramatically and MicroCenter decided to close that location. There is only one MicroCenter left in California and its in Southern California, 400 miles away.
There were a half dozen Fry's Electronics stores in the Bay Area so it really didnt make much sense for MicroCenter to try and stay in an overvalued area with one store to compete against a chain that had 5 stores within 15 minutes drive of it.
Then after downloading and installing the 531mb, then 90.1gb, it turned around and needed another 3.9gb patch.
it doesnt recognize my Saitek Pro Flight Pedals, though it does my ThrustMaster WartHog controller. (Never had an issues with FSX or XPlane.)
And the market store inside the game still tries to sell me the whole Premium upgrade which I have installed for another $99. I could see someone getting confused and trying to buy it a second time and getting screwed out of their money.
Finally, unlike previous versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator and XPlane, there is no recording of your flight so you can review it later to see how you did from the outside or from other angles after your landing. And if something fails or you crash it just puts up a box and says something broke and dumps you back into the main menu.
Its visually appea0ling from the sky, but the face on visuals of buildings are often not that great. Its more of an arcade like game than a true flight simulator at this point. I'm actually disappointed that i wasted the money.
I'm not going to drop $800 or even $400 for a gadget to wear on my head for so-so graphics that still requires a $2000+ computer to run.
I'd rather spend less on a larger or dual monitors.
If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for. -- W.C. Fields