I totally agree with pilgrim. I d/l the no/cd patch for FS2002 and 2004cof (and other non flt sim software). This alone gave me piece of mind, when you pay for a sim at £50, the last thing you need is for your CD/DVD drive to destroy or damage your disk. It doesnt hurt anyone and having the original copy didnt mean i was hurting the Developers either (even though its microsoft). We will have to see what pans out, but the majority of folks who use this forum, are the people who are going to wake up a 05:00 on the 5th April to d/l the game and pay for it. After all the waiting and winging all we want to do is play the god damn game.