Hello fliers, I have been with Microsoft Flight Sim's for years and have had FSX from the begining. As most everyone else has, I have invested in tons of addons for FSX. Since there is no more MS support for FSX, there is plenty of support here at AVSIM. With other flight sims available, x Plane and P3D, in your opinion, what do you think will happen to FSX in the future if anything at all? I raise this question because I would like to here from some of you and your opinion about FSX's future. 

Good topic.

 

Clearly as it isnt supported anymore and with recent news and changes with microsoft structure, I wonder what will happen with online authentication servers currently still up and running,

My question would be, any chance they may turn this service off anytime in the near future? and what happens then??

 

Guss.

maybe P3D v2 will replace FSX.

 

Harry

I guess for now we hold out until something bigger/better is announced. I assume we'll still be able to activate copies of FSX for years to come, you can do it over the phone if MS take down the activation servers can't you?

 

Personally i'm still running FS9 on an $800 laptop so i'm not sure what my route is next. I'd like to upgrade and buy a new computer soon to run FSX properly but what happens if i do, buy lots of expensive addons then a new, better simulator is announced a few months later? Especially if it's one that runs better on current hardware than FSX.

I think FSX's future will be as its present, and only a comparable but better product would change this.  While I hope there's such a product, I'm grateful we have FSX/P3D and a good set of freeware/payware developers keeping it alive.  

Something else to add, I just purchased a new computer and I really did not won't to migrate FSX to my new system. Thought about waiting til P3D V2.0 comes out and install it on my new system.

Something else to add, I just purchased a new computer and I really did not won't to migrate FSX to my new system. Thought about waiting til P3D V2.0 comes out and install it on my new system.

Interesting thought, I'm in the same position.

 

 

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The worry about the "Activation Servers" is a non-issue, since the same servers are used for all of Microsoft's products, not just FSX.

For me the future is P3D due to the enormous amount of add ons I have! But will probably enjoy FSX for a another few years, so many planes, so little time.

maybe P3D v2 will replace FSX.

 

Harry

It will not be Entertainment software.

I don't see how I'm going to be able to sustain my interest in FSX for very much longer.  With my next planned computer build, I'm going to have to do some serious thinking about where I want to take my flight simulation interest next.  And that isn't a hypothetical, I've already started to shop around for new components.  FSX will always have a home on my computer, but the idea of doing a build specifically catering to it's particular needs and limitations just isn't going to happen this time around.  Maybe it's time to get more involved in DCS and the amazing things they are doing over there.  In the past, I would hear of some ongoing development that was taking place and get excited for the future, even if that future was years away.  But after this last batch of releases, which I'm having enough trouble getting psyched up about as it is, am I really willing to hang in there with the same old platform for another 3 or 4 years? 

It will not be Entertainment software.

Aaaaahh!  We agree on something, Jim!   :lol:

 

Our change - users of the FSX that we know, will slowly migrate to the DX10 version, as Steve's Fixer is released and gains the acceptance of the more general community, and as it is further developed with additional features. As an insight to this, incidentaly - in the pre-release versions, there is "slow" snow and cockpit and airliner VC shadowing, where none previously existed...

I think I'm stuck with FSX forever, except if LM would at some point reconsider the EULA issue, which does not allow its use for entertainment purposes (and the conflict of some  addons' EULAs, which do not allow the use of those products in P3D). And I have no problem with FSX, as long as the activation will still be possible, and it is pbviously quite unlikely that this is going to come to an end somewhere in the near future. Besides, when I end university in a few years, I am not at all sure that time will suffice at all for such a hobby...

It will not be Entertainment software.

 

 

Aaaaahh!  We agree on something, Jim!   :lol:

 

Make it two... :hi:

This actually looked like an interesting thread, until some of you decided to use it as their platform to preach about EULA's