Forget about petitioning MS. They are yesterday's news with regards to flightsims. For FSnext we should be petitioning LM to snap up those newly unemployed Flight developers and put them to work on P3Dv2 (multi-core, multi-GPU, 64bit). That's FSnext!

 

Can we get them to petition MS to allow them to sell it to the general public first? Sure, YOU might not mind them 'looking the other way' at people abusing the licenses on a product where they can pull out the rug on your ability to use it at any time, but some of us can't feel comfortable with that. Until the license changes, P3d is a no go for many of us.

Yep, I believe too that the future is P3D, but there is no guarantee that they wont shut their doors on P3D either. There is so much going on with the world economies that longevity is up in the air. Change is inevitable.

 

Bob

I thought ex ACES Studio employee and their new Cascade Game Foundry were working on a new sim project. What happened to that?

I thought ex ACES Studio employee and their new Cascade Game Foundry were working on a new sim project. What happened to that?

 

It's coming along, nothing announced publically yet. I wouldn't expect it to be a flight simulator however.

 

 

As for the OP, I would "Like" but I don't do facebook, oh well.

Yeah, don't get your hopes up. Microsoft abandoned Flight Simulator because they didn't think it was mainstream enough to warrant the time and money it took to develop it. Flight was their attempt to create a higher profile and therefore more profitable product, but they underestimated the importance of their core market with predictable results. It's reasonably safe to say that Microsoft will never release another flight simulator of any kind.

 

It's time to move on and support developers like Laminar Research who is still actively developing simulators for the core flight simulator enthusiast market. There lies the future of the flight simulator hobby, not with Microsoft.

Yeah' date=' don't get your hopes up. Microsoft abandoned Flight Simulator because they didn't think it was mainstream enough to warrant the time and money it took to develop it. Flight was their attempt to create a higher profile and therefore more profitable product, but they underestimated the importance of their core market with predictable results. It's reasonably safe to say that Microsoft will never release another flight simulator of any kind.

 

It's time to move on and support developers like Laminar Research who is still actively developing simulators for the core flight simulator enthusiast market. There lies the future of the flight simulator hobby, not with Microsoft.[/quote']

 

As we are so often reminded in the x-plane forum, this is the FSX forum.

 

The demise of flight changes nothing. FSX is still going strong and backed by 3rd party devs who still seem to think that FSX is the better option despite being six years old.

 

Xplane may well evolve into the platform of choice, but it will either do it on it's own merit or it won't.

 

Cheap shots and promo over here won't change that.......

Can we get them to petition MS to allow them to sell it to the general public first? Sure, YOU might not mind them 'looking the other way' at people abusing the licenses on a product where they can pull out the rug on your ability to use it at any time, but some of us can't feel comfortable with that. Until the license changes, P3d is a no go for many of us.

 

People have got to remember this community is also not LM's targeted audience, they are (to this point) just allowing us along for the ride. Their more interested in the lucrative government contracts, and other commercial uses. If they fail to meet their goal in sales to them , then it too will go the way of the Do-Do bird!

 

I agree about the license issue, but I'm not sure LM would even be interested in making it an official entertainment title, even if they could, for the above reason. An academic license, still has the sense of professionalism to it, being labeled an entertainment/game title would take away from that. That's not the image a company like Lockheed Martin would want to project.