That didn't take long. Wonder why they're releasing it so soon? (Surely it's because of Flight's overwhelming success thus far...)

So, Microsoft will release more scenery for Flight ... no big surprise. Microsoft will gin up publicity ... no big surprise. Microsoft will try to get lots of users (and customers for DLC) ... again, not really a big surprise.

On the bright side, this means other stuff like "no jets" may be false.

Zaku wrote on Mar 5^th, 2012 at 5:36pm:


  Or they are desperately looking to save the actual reputation of this fraud ,I mean Flight game, but even with the tricks I can also get them and even better with FSX .. I don't trust them ,I don't believe them 

this is and act of desperation ,they already know they has crap it on them selves ,they now know the negative flight is  getting in all FS websites

so soon? they are announcing that there will be more part of the world? ...B.S**s

Zaku wrote on Mar 5^th, 2012 at 5:47pm:


There is one key difference. Payware addons for FSX, FS9, etc. albeit for a fee, are generally produced by people who actually ENJOY flight simulation and care about enhancing the flight sim experience as a whole, where as addons for Flight are purely about making money, and as Alex pointed out, MS saving their butts from a PR disaster.

I'm sorry...I mean no disrespect.

Zaku wrote on Mar 5^th, 2012 at 5:56pm:

So you wouldn't care if you buy a TV of the army or terrorists?

Yeah, that's a really ridiculous comparison to make.  ...honestly, this whole fiasco reminds me of when FSX was released.

Groundbound1 wrote on Mar 5^th, 2012 at 6:22pm:



I will again throw in the crucial factor as I see it -- OPEN INPUT is what made FS what it is today. MSF has just a few contracted developers who in no way can create what has gone before ...

Open input, in my mind, allows for free and varied thinking and therefore far greater progress.

--- and this is why simviation exists ---

FSX, Flightgear and possibly P3D (and probably others we have yet to hear about) all have enormous potential as they are open digital world landscapes upon which to do whatever anyone wishes to do ...

Groundbound1 wrote on Mar 5^th, 2012 at 6:22pm:




I just finish the three flights in Flight to allow me to free flight <--this is sound so redundant

  after watching the final ,I have to change my mind  of Flight ....I used to love FSx but now I love it even more 

pete wrote on Mar 5^th, 2012 at 5:18pm:


+1    

Brandon, at least the leader of the Flight team isn't passionate about FS.

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Also even the leader of the Flight Team thinks it's a game.

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pete wrote on Mar 5^th, 2012 at 6:36pm:


Welcome to Catch22. Microsoft has for some time now been examining their revenue streams on all their products. FS had a small revenue stream for MS due to the fact that it WAS open. So on the one hand we would expect Microsoft to create FS11 etc but expect them to do this for little money.
however MS knows that flight games are a good potential market area. I am quite sure that inside Flight there is a lot of FS code. Has to be. And I can also imagine that someone inside MS had to fight hard to keep them in the flight simulation game. So they came up with Flight. it is probably the only way the MS management allowed the developers to stay in the flight simulation game. Stripping out the third party element. Where they went wrong, was in NOT actually releasing a FS11 with the third party development option removed somehow. (So existing planes would fly, inside Flight running a FSX emulator) while all the fancy new stuff , better planes, graphics etc would run in Flight only. Although it would not please all, it would be a compromise that could have worked. This way MS would have kept everybody on board I think. As it is, they have decided that the existing simmers community isnt worth bothering with at the moment. Eventually flight may develop to a point where it once again becomes interesting. But that product will deliver MS a good revenue stream by then. We are enthusiasts, they run a business. I think they messed up. but its their choice.

jetprop wrote on Mar 5^th, 2012 at 6:00pm:


Argumentative, your honor.  Move to disregard and strike from the record...