While I can see both sides of the argument for keeping weapons out of the sim or adding them, please, let's not get into a ridiculous slanging match over which of the current products released or in development is "better".

The answer is neither. They do different things. Both - depending on sales apparently - will evolve, by the sound of it towards each others' territory, but right now they do entirely different things so there's no direct comparison. Seriously, getting into "mine's better than yours" fights is utterly pointless and just wastes everyone's time and bandwidth.

Just to stay on topic, as I have said elsewhere, my take on this is that provided the weapons add-ons cannot affect the sim experience of someone who doesn't wish to use them (which is currently the case), I have no problem at all with them. But I do respect the wishes of those who don't want them as well. A heck of a lot of people do!!!

Ian P.