I was surprised to find no concern from 3rd party developers over Microsoft dumping Flight Simulator. I know they are coming out with a new version now, but even then, I am still confused. Your average scenery or plain could easily surpass the purchase price of FSX itself. Now, there platform is gone, but everyone was quiet, or even worst, optimistic.The average response was, "FSX is more powerful than any hardware currently available. It will be at least 3 or 4 years before everyone can run it at max." I understand, but it takes a long time to build a new flight simulator, and who do we have to build it?Let assume Microsoft Flight is just a game. What I would like to see are all the third party developers do is fund a open-source flight simulator project. The project would just be graphics and a basic physics model. The third party developers would simply connect to this framework with their software. What do you think of the idea? What do you think Microsoft Flight might offer?

There is an entire forum dedicated to this... Could one of the mods please move this topic to that forum? Besides, this hasbeen discussed to death already...

FSX is just a game, same with FS9. They are games in the simulator genre. MS Flight will be no different in that regard. It will be a succession of FSX, I guess you could call it FS11. It will have the same or better fidelity as FSX. Dont worry be happy :)

Oops, sorry about that. I will go look.Thanks,

There is an entire forum dedicated to this... Could one of the mods please move this topic to that forum? Besides, this hasbeen discussed to death already...