It's already May 2011 and no recent teaser updates. I would love to be a fly on the wall over at MS. I have to admit they are marketing experts but I still doubt they can get it done this year. The EULA will likely take 6 months to conjure up!    Minimum 15 pages in #2 font with at least 4000 12 letter legal terms, when all that is really needed is....

(Don't even think about messing with us. )

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   Brandon, I kinda figured you were in-the-know with Flight by your responses. I understand why you said that I (Someone) is stuck in the days of FSX. The reason for the comment is that companies are just starting to come out with new aircraft (Carenado, etc) and scenery programs (REX, IS2, etc) for FSX. These programs are, also, still coming out with more updates, patches etc. to enhance FSX, thus my counter-comment of still being the days of FSX.

   Kudos to you for stepping forward. Now that you're out in the open, I think we can have more constructive conversations about what is really happening. I'm not sure if you are working on add-on programming directly for MS Flight or an aftermarket developer. I'm sure it affects you and all developers the same way. So, I'll ease up on you from now on.

   I know that you can't divulge any information even if their is anything solid happening with Flight. I will say that I hope that Flight is tested much better than FSX was. I don't know of the pressures on the new team (ACES +++, err... whatever you or they are called now), but I do hope MS double & triple checks the program before the program goes to market.

   As exciting as the news of the new program is, I'd rather wait until '13 and recieve a very good program (some minor bugs will always exist), than waste so much money, effort and aggrevation that we all experienced with FSX. If you consider all the time that MS used up fixing FSX, it would have been better if they just pushed back the release date, or better yet, MS should not have even suggested a general time period for release. If I remember correctly, FSX was released in October of '07 (may be wrong, but anyway), if MS would have taken the extra year and a half to get things right and released in, say, March of '09, which is about the time when everything was finally straightened out. It would have saved everyone a lot of grief Like I said, I'd rather wait awhile and get a good product than get a lesser product and get strung along for months and years of excuses etc.

   Hope all goes well...

Semper Fi,

Dave (err Someone if you like)

New Light wrote on May 5^th, 2011 at 9:09pm:


No, I'm actually not working with any development teams for Flight. (I would guess that if I was, I wouldn't be able to say whether or not I was)

Exactly...working out the performance issues and crashes would have saved them so much criticism. ACES had the ability to program something that would take advantage of current hardware of the time, but it's likely that Microsoft simply did not allow them to change the parts of code that would allow for this. I would hope that they have learned from their mistakes...it's hard to say for sure since this is Microsoft, but who knows what will happen until it actually happens. 

New Light wrote on May 2^nd, 2011 at 9:28pm:


Dave, I think you are forgetting that what FS is to one person, is not necessarily the same to another. I have no idea of the ratios, I know there are a lot of people who want all the realism

they can get and treat it as a sim. While others are more interested in a bit less realism and want that great scenery. I would be one of them. I credit FS with increasing my knowledge of world

geography ten fold from what I knew prior to FS. And I would like to see landmarks and notable areas as close to the real thing as is feasable, without going the photoreal route. And if I could get

FTX grade scenery for the planet at a cost I could afford, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

All I'm trying to say, is that everyone's idea of what constitues the main idea of FS, is not the same. 

Cheers,

Larry

New Light wrote on May 15^th, 2011 at 12:43am:

No problem Dave.

And your post here brings up even more about the diversity of the sim community, things I had not even considered, writing flight plans, overhauling local airports etc.

I just wish MS would realize, acknowledge, and cater to all the diverse areas of the FS community. I'm sure both the freeware and payware developers would be pleased if they did. And it would benefit all of us.