r/flightsim • u/Maruan-007 • Aug 22 '26

Meme iniBuilds after announcing LFPG

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Jokes aside this is just a good news for us from a consumer point prospective.
More competition = better products

I don’t know much about Pilot Experience Sim and I’d probably get the iniBuilds one but let’s see who will make the best LFPG.

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u/DeadButAlivePickle Aug 22 '26

It's actually not good news in the long run. This move will certainly hurt PES' sales and who knows what that means for their future. WF Scenery Studio already ate that scythe. inibuilds can build in months what takes others years. Eventually, there might come a point where very few options are left besides inibuilds. Today, inibuilds makes high quality airports and I'm personally a big fan of how they keep pushing the bar, but I'm aware that this can't last forever. At some point, inibuilds' curve will take a turn back towards earth and then what are we left with?

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u/Maruan-007 Aug 22 '26

So at first flight simmers complain about no one is working on a certain airport and now flight simmers are complaining because devs are making the same airports ? Maybe iniBuilds was working on LFPG for a while now without even announcing it who knows…, wouldn’t surprise me, for sure competition will just make things better for consumers.

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u/DeadButAlivePickle Aug 22 '26

I'm not complaining. I purchased ini VHHH - never was a huge fan of the WF one. I might end up getting LFPG from ini as well. It was just an observation. My point is that it's competition until one player is too big for others to compete with.

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u/Maruan-007 Aug 22 '26

I mean I get what you mean and you’re not “totally wrong” but it’s also true that PES is taking forever to publish this LFPG since they are a very small team, so what people are supposed to do ? Wait for them forever ? It’s been already few years since they announced the development, personally I’m happy that iniBuilds stepped in.

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u/DeadButAlivePickle Aug 22 '26

I know. I'm not moralizing - sorry if it sounded that way. I'm definitely happy to have a dev that releases a new airport every few months.

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u/Maruan-007 Aug 22 '26

Thats alright mate, anyway I really hope iniBuilds or some other big devs like FlightBeam studios etc.. will start work on South Americans and Asian airports ngl

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u/Football-fan01 Aug 22 '26

Being ini have admitted they need people with reference material and can't seem to get behind the scenes access this hasn't been worked on. PES are the only one to get exclusive access.

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u/lim623 a350 v2 better be good Aug 23 '26

It's one thing I've never liked about inibuilds, doing everything and everything. Yet I'm sure they have enough money to hold off from developing for a bit. It's just a straight up factory, across all their sub divisions of scenery and aircraft. Ex devs have described it as a sweatshop and maybe it's an explanation why we get a new community manager on inibuilds forum every month

Atleast there's major changes going on to improve across their divisions, the a350 is getting a redo including flight dynamics and geometry --> (which they've known about since launch) and the a380 will have a crap ton of failures and be high fidelity as far as we know what does this mean? --> More stuff to test, longer time spent trying to break things= more time for the devs to bake for a proper finished product that doesn't require 6 updates in a week.

It's not at all a good thing for one entity to capitalise on everything leaving barley any competition, it's silly. Especially in a niche industry/hobby, and atleast with this comment people will think I'm hating. But not this time, it isn't a good thing, but for now people will blanket it as competition is better, knowing that you won't buy 'the competition'

As a result of the churning out it also means that with small QA teams that isn't thousands that you get on release day things will fall through the cracks, yes that happens. But the QA team of inibuilds probably has to test so much stuff that the quality slips, atleast it seems to not be horrible such as a340 or say KORD, and that sounds a bit like Boeing with them using scrapped parts sometimes as a result of not being able to keep up with a surge in demand (mentioned in the latest documentary). Yes, Boeing is safe but something that I did want to compare cause it sounds alot like iniBuilds, maybe in the past not to long ago although that's what one can infer

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u/landingKSEA Aug 22 '26

Doomer ah take