Comment on Microsoft Flight Sim players have the world at their fingertips; now they want a time machine, too
maynarkh@feddit.nl 11 months ago
TL;DR:
Microsoft/Asobo is responding to the community asking for historical weather conditions instead of only now-current ones, they say it’s very hard to impossible to do it due to a lack of data and existing data being hard to get into the game.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
“Lack of data” seems a very strange reason considering we have climate data going back over 100 years for most of the world and meteorological data going back at least a few decades.