If flight does not support third party add-ons, like it seems it will not, most dedicated sim pilots will continue using FSX, FS9, and any other sim that does.  I would expect simviation and other similar sites to carry on supporting FSX and FS9 for quite a long time.

Please notice that there are plenty of people here still using FS2004.  Heck... there are still people using the FS98 section.

Flight or no Flight....... SimV is on solid ground.

best,

........john

How do you know that Flight will have third party? From what I've heard there won’t be any third party & the add-ons will all be controlled by Microsoft.

I agree with you Alex, FSX has a good future & so does Simv.

BTW Happy Birthday for yesterday.

My only slight worry is that at some time, the supply of original copies of FSX will slowly dry-up, together with MS Support.

FS 2004 is becoming more and more difficult to source, and copies of FS 2002 and earlier are practically non existent now!

Unless someone else takes up the publishing and distribution of the MS Flight Sims, I fear that the familiar jewel cases will disappear from the game shop shelves!

My pristine copies of FS '98, 2000, 2002, 2004, FSX, and CFS 2/3, are locked safely away, and treated like gold dust!

As long as we still have access to the original MS Flight Sims, Sim V, etc, will continue to thrive, I'm sure!

Paul.... ...!

"MS Flight".......like a fart on the wind, it'll smell bad for a minute....then it'll be gone

Chuck.....sticking to FSX

Fozzer wrote on Feb 11^th, 2012 at 1:40pm:



Excellent point, Paul.

I would imagine that the main decisions on Flight were made by the Vice President of Profits.   

best,

...................john

DaveSims wrote on Feb 10^th, 2012 at 5:38pm:


I could not agree more. In my humble opinion, remove thir party programmers from the equation is a major step in order to direct people to look elsewhere for a flight simulator program. If that will be the case, I am one of those who will stay with FSX. After all, more then 80% of "my" airplanes are third part software. (I really do not see Microsoft as going to make the effort to present, for example, a Electra X or a Superconnie in Flight, now do we?) 

So long as Paul keeps cooking, there will always be topics created and life in SimV 

andy190 wrote on Feb 10^th, 2012 at 9:49pm:


One thing that Microsoft usually does very well is to line up developer support for its major projects, for all the right reasons. But like I said in my post, I would expect all third-party content to be available only via LIVE, with Microsoft getting a percentage of each and every sale. Apple does the same with its App Store. Other game developers have exclusive deals with Steam. I'm not so quick to get crazy angry like others and say that it's all evil. Too early to make a judgement. But you can just expect it, see it coming. That's the business model they want for Flight.

I would imagine that with the failure and disapointment with flight, there will be a renewed interest and some further private developement of FSX enhancements.

Personally, I wiil admiit that I have lost some interest with FSX due the the developement of flight.
However, now, FSX looks pretty damn good!

Raoul, to answer your first question, Flight won't support third-party & you can't even make repaints of the default aircraft because it's all in binary code.

But, the more I see of Flight the brighter the future of Simv seems, because Flight isn’t a hard-core flight simulator, if it can be classed as a flight simulator at all.

Well... ...

From my present observation of; "Flight" so far, I don't think any of our favourite Flight Sim sites have anything to worry about... ...!

The previous (and present) MS Flight Sims are, and will be, as popular now as they ever were!

I think the introduction of; "Flight", will give a new lease of life to our ever-popular Flight Sims;...FS '98, FS 2000, FS 2002, FS2004, CFS 2/3, and FSX!

Having been introduced to; "Flight", I suspect that many/most of the new Pilots will be interested in their new experience, and decide to migrate over to the "proper" MS Flight Simulators, and therefore boost our numbers!

So......It may be to our advantage!

Paul...FS 2004... ...!

...and more Folks will benefit from my; "Cookery" posts!.. ...!

And we also have to remember there are also other flight sims out there that are still developing and open source like fly!Horizon and the much better known flightgear. Xplane is also there
My point being that there are others that are also developing and that have so much potential. fsx is also being developed by us 3rd party developers who every year bring an improvement to the simulations.