People can already get into the game immediately when they receive their copy, just with a vastly simplified distribution mechanism called "download". You might not remember all the issues physical distribution mechanisms had back in the day.
A general distinction between play time, menu time, update time, pause time,... might be nice for counting hours in game too.
Usually they are made based on how much they will improve the career chances of the person making them.
For something like a road it is a bit silly to make a big ceremony out of it anyway. It is not like we have never built one of those before.
What about learning how to transport humans in space so we can eventually get some of our eggs out of this one basket?
The problem with that whole concept is that it is often criticized by going the other way, i.e. that everything old is better, when in reality neither everything new nor everything old is great and change has to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Those people drove like a-holes.
That is not true. I mean the bit where you put that into the past tense. They still do.
Most deadly to driver is not the same thing as most deadly. SUVs are usually extremely deadly to pedestrians and other road users.
The government should mandate warning labels on companies like that, maybe "fintech" would be a good word to force them to use, similar to the way large companies have to use the "enterprise" warning label and games companies have to be labelled "triple A" to know their products and services are low quality and have a high risk of failure.
It is a flight simulator, somehow I doubt it has more console than PC users. Consoles are just too limited to satisfy that particular demographic. Can't even connect half a dozen different input devices to a console.
And how do you achieve anything with diplomacy with someone who explicitly broke the last few agreements related to the country in question to invade?
True in theory but in the absence of regulation to that effect if you don't vote with your wallet either companies have literally no incentive to ensure that.