January 6, 201214 yr I just had a thought, I wonder how long this was in the planning?When Flight Simulator was shuttered, Microsoft said they were committed to flying games. Perhaps someone had long since come up with this idea?They would have known that the existing team would never agree to gut FS and strip it down, and maybe that's why ACES was closed.
January 6, 201214 yr from the looks of it all, MS gave it all of about 12 minutes planning... Edited January 6, 201214 yr by Jacoba A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy