Xpand wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 1:55pm:

I'd imagine that you only have to purchase the official DLC. That would be like buying FSX: Acceleration, but only if you wanted it. I can actually see it being more profitable for them. Imagine if a new plane or mission was 50 pence up to a quid... You'd just pay and forget about it, and steadily you spend enough money... But in such small increments that you're never really out of pocket.

The FS community is too heavily based on user created data, they can't justify getting rid of it. I imagine we'll be able to get user aeroplanes, scenery, missions, textures, the lot. Microsoft will just sell us their updates as and when we want them.

Xpand wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 7:08pm:



And ironically MS is STILL making money off of FSX and FS9.

Razgriz wrote on Jan 4^th, 2012 at 9:56pm:


I couldn't agree more!

Ace Combat is the perfect example. Ace combat 1 to 5 were all brilliant if not a bit to similar but 6 was a joke full of stupid gimmicks designed to appeal to the average 'gamer' and Hawx was just a joke. 

Microsoft are clearly aiming for the average gamer because lets face it, there really isn't that many of us FS fans in comparison to lets say Call of Duty fans. So that is where the money is.

Obviously I have nothing against the developers they are doing a job, doing what they are told and I am sure they are doing it very well. 

The task MS had really was quite simple:
Remake FSX but with less bugs and able to run at high graphic settings with good fps without a super computer.
That's it. Well maybe a few improvements to the default aircraft to.

To be honest I have no interest in Flight what so ever. I had FS2000 and that did me well until I bought FSX so I have no intention of changing from FSX for a good few years.

I Won't be buying into the new Microsoft Flight Simulator, I remember all the Hoopla and Promotion for "FSX", long before it ever was released and how much better it was going to be than FS-2004 or 2002 pro - only to find out to my Amazement FSX Gold Acceleration Edition - a lot or most of the Scenery ( Aircraft Hangers & Buildings & Bridges) totally absolutely "Sucked" !  Whoevers idea it was to "Inject" Painted doors on almost all 90% of the Aircraft Hangers should be strung up & hung !!!  Why was there very few if Any Sea plane harbors & docks ?  Another thing I definetly noticed in about 80% of all the "Regional Airports", is the total lack of anything around the Airport , and what is there , is Child Like looking, many of the Hangers & buildings are situated facing the wrong way - some even smack right in the runway, Hanger doors facing the wrong direction poor runway lighting and poor runway textures - and some of the Aircraft that came out with FSX were a total Joke , they totally ruined the Cessna 172, with lousy paint schemes and taking off the wheel pan farings. The only decent aircraft in FSX really was the Dehavilland Beaver dh3,, most of their jets were awful I had way better looking Jets and Graphics in my 2002 Pro edition back at that time , and it even looked better than 2004 century of Flight.  With all the Add On's available now for FSX ( ORBX- Feelthere - Fly Tampa ) - and a host of others that are top Quality Add On's - I'll be sticking with my "FSX GOLD EDITION" for many many years to come, I as well as most Flight Simmers now have way too much money Invested in Payware Add On's for FSX to just jump the boat for some Disasterous new Flight Sim from Microsoft, and if their Scenery isn't any better than what I've seen so far - I definetly will NOT be switching to Flight anytime ever !   One last thought directed to Microsoft Flights G.M. - I don't know who the Flight Sim Team there at MS hires - but evidently in the years past anyway, they had to hire some fairly Clueless  Kids to work on their scenery files from what I've seen in FSX - especially all those buildings at the airports situtated the wrong way pointing every which direction, some actually sitting on the runways, Fuel Boxes sitting behind buildings , and all the Many Many Aircraft Hangers with stupid looking painted doors - and no worthwhile interior - ( so much for good Screen shots). Just today I was at a large size Regional Airport in Florida in FSX, and I noticed this building with a very detailed """" Fire Escape"""" - now whoever decided to put that much detail into a Buildings Fire escape , than why couldn't the Flight Sim Development Team put that much effort into the Hangers and runways in FSX ???? ( duh~ duh~ duh ~ !!!! ). All I can say is Thank God for "ORBX" and the rest of the decent Quality Aircraft & Scenery Developers out there , otherwise I would of dropped this Flight Sim out of my computer long time ago ~ !!  I'm sticking with what I got so far, with FSX and all the add on's i've got, which is probably going to be way better than than this new FLIGHT anyway ! I'm just wondering now - what type of FILE FORMAT are they going to use with this new FLIGHT ??  Are they going to keep the DSS File format for Aircraft Textures and scenery Textures or throw some odd bull crap at everybody again like they did with FSX with the DSS file structure , and I can see why they  did it to save space and smaller file sizes, but their awfully hard to work with sometimes even using the DXT File converter to repaint some of the aircraft. Anyway I'm sticking with FSX for years to come ~ ! 

The OrbX guys are making it very clear:
http://forum.avsim.net/topic/358739-since-the-cat-is-out-of-the-bag/

The future of Flight Simulator is P3D.

In that ORBX post:
"MS don't know what they have in the FSX engine source code, or they would not have licensed it to LM. It is by far the most capable and impressive 3D far-horizon engine ever coded - bar none. Nothing, even in 2012 comes close to the number of pixels and terrain the FSX engine can push at a locked 60Hz."

So yeah, FSX still hasn't reached its max capabilities with current add-ons... Something tells me it will be the legendary version of the series and it's going to stick around for years to come..

krigl wrote on Jan 5^th, 2012 at 6:23am:

I didn't get REX on the christmas sale because I was waiting for flight... 

But yeah, from now on it's obvious I might as well invest in FSX for the flight sim experience I want.