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The Facts Emerge - The future of MS Flight Simulation


found this on avsim, looks like what we had suspected, will be intresting to see how this develops in the future, for me it means that i will be staying with FSX for quite some time.

Well like ,,,Id really like them to make whatever whenever and see how it goes as gaming is jumping 100 steps at a time these days and when that time comes im sure some will make the move some will not or they would of moved on to other sims that come out ...

(I've changed the post to link to Avsim's news story, rather than an entire copy/paste.)

Hmm, I'd be very wary of accepting this as the definitive statement on the future of FS -- just because it highlights the word 'fact' three times doesn't make it so:) The first 'fact' is speculation, the second appears to be true, the third is meaningless -- no one really expected MS to up and sell MSFS, surely?

The comparison to the iphone is kind of bizarre, my understanding of Windows Live is based on Xbox Live, which is certainly nothing like how Apple market iphone apps. I can buy a game for Xbox Live -- say Guitar Hero -- which I buy on DVD from a local shop. I can then download addon content, such as songs and albums, either as freebies or by paying online. Certainly nothing to get freaked about, that's pretty much what we do with flightsim now.

There is certainly reason to speculate that addons to any future 'Windows Live' simulator would need to be approved somehow by Microsoft, but that can benefit the user more than it hinders. Developers would be required to support their products, otherwise they just can't sell anything. There are a few developers at the moment who would need to get their act together to continue selling their products.

I do think that the next FS will be significantly changed from what we know, but that is true of any game like this. If you were transported from the 80s or 90s to today, you would not recognise the sim. You would, however, be blown away by the modern version.

There are some weird threads going on, a lot at Avsim, but a lot of these people are just doing what simmers do best -- letting off steam, over-reacting, and fearing any change. Some play devil's advocate, and attempt to inflame others by worst-case scenarios, but that's all part of the fun.

In the Microsoft Flight Simulator 11 - what do you want to see in it? topic, I said the only suggestion I have to solve the lack of accurate details in every country outside the states would be for the Ace's developers to create localized versions of the next flightsim, maybe one for each continent or geographical region which you can buy separately.

And although most of the news story on avsim has been written from a rather negative angle, this short section below could be the positive beginnings to my suggested comment above: