Pretty sure the license was sold to one of the members of Shark Tank.

Apple might make sense. They use it as a marketing tool to help their hardware sales and don't need it to be profitable by itself. Financially, it's a meaningless piece of change for them. Whoever it is must be doing it for reasons other than wanting to make the code profitable by itself...it'll likely never happen.

 

...unless you turn it into some sort of mobile app.

That would make my day!!!! MS FLIGHT was the way to go, not in terms of banning 3pds from the scene, but the engine behind it, and the spectacular simulation platform it could have turned to... It was the sim that brought me back to flight simulation, and... after 2 yrs, I ended up playing air combat sims because I simply can't find better graphics, flight dynamics and immersion in any other offers.... MS FLIGHT II would possibly turn my interest back to civil flight simulation...

 

Wait a second...  jcomm changed sim platforms again?  :Whistle:

 

 

Why on earth would there be angst?

 

 

LM has done exactly with P3D what everyone wanted them to...and continue to do it.

 

 

I have no regrets having spent the cash on P3D.

 

I wouldn't agree that Lockheed have done exactly what everyone wanted them to. Of course you shouldn't have any regrets with buying P3D, but your slightly prickly response perhaps underlines my point.

 

Flight simmers seem to become somewhat emotionally invested in their preferred sim and will round on anything they perceive to be a threat to it. A new flight sim that is actually licensed for entertainment could possibly upset the P3D bandwagon and those who have jumped on it and proclaimed it to be The Future

 

Which is why I expect the greatest amount of dismissal of this news to come from the P3D side of the flight sim fence.

 

 

 

Apple might make sense.

 

Can't see it myself. Gaming has never been big on Apple and it would take more than a flight sim to kickstart gaming on the Apple platform.

 

 

Lots of people are joining up the dots, when we still don't even know what or where the dots are. The people who are speculating the buyer must be EA or Ubisoft probably haven't been paying enough attention to the video game industry for the last 15 years. Those who have concluded it must be Lockheed apparently still haven't got their heads around exactly what type of a business Lockheed is, the products they sell, the reason they licensed ESP and what they intend P3D to be used for. Lockheed are as much about video games as Microsoft are about stealth fighters.

The suspense is real. Cheers or Tears.

Can someone explain all of this I thought LM bought all of the rights to flightsim - what am I missing

 

 

I thought LM bought all of the rights to flightsim

 

LM bought the licence for ESP, a totally different product

nt - answered above

Thank you Guys - appreciate it

Watch it unfold here hopefully http://www.ign.com/events/e3

Microsoft press conference 9.30 PDT 5.30 UK time

Just to put the cat among the pigeons, but even this rumor does not say Microsoft will announce this license at their press conference. I would have thought it would be more likely, that the purchaser would make the announcement, not the seller. I might be wrong, I often am

Just to put the cat among the pigeons, but even this rumor does not say Microsoft will announce this license at their press conference. I would have thought it would be more likely, that the purchaser would make the announcement, not the seller. I might be wrong, I often am

Agreed! About the press conference part that is.

My reading comprehension is apparently for $#!t these days...

 

First I botch reading FLEX1978's post, confusing the participants in his dinner conversations, THEN I completely gloss over this important line from the original AVSIM news item: "We can also tell you that the licensee is not one that we would have thought to have been a logical candidate in terms of direct knowledge of the product..."

 

Had I read and understood that, my initial speculation of Aerosoft (and to a far lesser degree, PMDG) would have been immediately quashed. Having slept on it overnight, I do have to say I'm a bit less enthusiastic about the news now than I was last night. It's probably healthy for all of us to not get too exited about this being a possible reboot and return of the venerable Flight Simulator franchise. As others have said before this post - the MSFS library includes FS2004 and FSX, but it also includes Flight.

 

Like many of you I'd want nothing more than the spirit of the "true" MSFS to be revived, but people/companies usually don't buy these types of things on principle or passion... the buy these things for profit. Even if a new owner came into possession of the franchise today, it's not like they are going to be able to release something next month (or even next year) which would satisfy all of us enthusiasts.

 

It's interesting news no doubt, but lets not get too terribly breathless about it. Yet.

I wouldn't agree that Lockheed have done exactly what everyone wanted them to. Of course you shouldn't have any regrets with buying P3D, but your slightly prickly response perhaps underlines my point.

 

Flight simmers seem to become somewhat emotionally invested in their preferred sim and will round on anything they perceive to be a threat to it. A new flight sim that is actually licensed for entertainment could possibly upset the P3D bandwagon and those who have jumped on it and proclaimed it to be The Future™

 

Which is why I expect the greatest amount of dismissal of this news to come from the P3D side of the flight sim fence.

 

The irony is you expect defensiveness from P3D users when the defensiveness appears to be coming from you against P3D. I don't see many, if any P3D users dismissing the news in this thread. Quite the opposite. I do see the unsolicited sarcasm against P3D in your posts though.

 

Maybe look in the mirror next time you want to accuse people of emotional responses to software.

To clarify - My family hosted a dinner a few months back. A friend who is a  very senior airline exec was present, he informed me that a certain individual based out here was purchasing the license and planned to carry on development.

 

 I spoke to someone on Avsim via PM to try and confirm but they hadn't heard anything.  Anyway it will be interesting to see how this pans out.  The person I spoke to is very senior, I thought it would be strange for him to make something like this up.

 

From what he told me the plans for a future version look very good,  hopefully everything he told me was correct.

 

Doesn't JV (Orbx) live in London? It certainly fits into the FTX/Orbx 'vision' if they had their own flight simulator.