In our community we had the PSS situation until the company came back as Black Box Simulation.

 

same hooker different dress.. and they are still curning out crap and calling it gold

I could not care less what Dovetail does with FSX. I have an install disk and a 250GB backup of payware addons.  I'll be fine.

 

Baseless speculation? None of your payware addons will work with Dovetail's new 64-bit DX11 FSX Steam Edition released in December 2014.

Edited because question already answered

Ill wait and see .I see someone that had a ton of cash and time to seat there and see that there was a small amount of people willing to spend a fair amou t of money for quality 3rd party dev but MS did not go that way , so here i seat (dovetails)with money to do something and open the door to 3rd party devs and make some cash if flight was open to to 3rd party devs could of work than i (dovetaills) think ill make a deal and things would work my way ...

Man of i can only had the cash to do this i would put all the top fsx devs on a table and just let all of this guys run things from that point .

Didn't work from Train Simulator.. Won't work for this.. They don't care about true simulation. It's all eye candy and DLC. Trust me, and trust the many others who have delt with RSDL/RSC/Dovetail since 2007 and understand how they work. They are not in it for your best interests. The quicker you realize and accept that. The less painful their incarnation of flight simulation will be. 

 

I just want to quote this to make sure others see it, we've been echoing this all through this thread. They don't care about the user, they are all about profits. Like I, Bill, and others have said. Go onto the Train Simulator 2014 Steam store page (http://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/) and please, please read the reviews. Understand how this company works. We can try and email them all we want, they probably will respond with a generic response, and tell us our thoughts have been taken note of, with nothing coming from it. We can't state this enough, this is not the company who should be taking FSX over in the entertainment selling perspective. We won't know how bad this might be until it actually plays out, but I for one anticipate it to end very badly, and I'm sure others familiar with the Railworks/Dovefail Games way already know what to expect. 

 

I'm hoping this thread, and our responses, are what could be part of a larger attempt to get them to do it right, but I doubt it...

 

And we can also go into their attempts to silence people who've spoken out against them (http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/12/06/train-simulator-2014-developer-hiding-negative-steam-user-reviews-flagged-as-off-topic/)

 and please, please read the reviews.

Interestingly enough, all positive reviews are actually negative, but were marked positive for humor.

Interestingly enough, all positive reviews are actually negative, but were marked positive for humor.

 

When TS 2014 first came out they (Dovetail) flagged all negative reviews as off topic.. They got yelled at by Steam for it..

 

Proof: http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/12/06/train-simulator-2014-developer-hiding-negative-steam-user-reviews-flagged-as-off-topic/

 

Again.. This company is no ones friend.. 

When TS 2014 first came out they (Dovetail) flagged all negative reviews as off topic.. They got yelled at by Steam for it..

 

Proof: http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/12/06/train-simulator-2014-developer-hiding-negative-steam-user-reviews-flagged-as-off-topic/

 

I linked that same article in my post in an edit haha, but that was an interesting time. My review (not trying to advertise it but it is visible here http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198075467929/recommended/24010/) was one of the many. Again, I know there are people who are saying wait and see, and I respect and hope that time does benefit this, but from my, and others experiences and stories, it would take a miracle for that to happen at this rate...

;-)

I linked that same article in my post in an edit haha, but that was an interesting time. My review (not trying to advertise it but it is visible here http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198075467929/recommended/24010/) was one of the many. Again, I know there are people who are saying wait and see, and I respect and hope that time does benefit this, but from my, and others experiences and stories, it would take a miracle for that to happen at this rate...

 

Didn't see the edit.. And I'm also not trying to cause a problem here either but just get the message across that Dovetail is not here to help "the community".. They hate user forums, hate `enthusiasts'  and hate communities that aren't on Steam or Facebook.

 

Again..

 

 

I have over 3,700hrs of experience dealing with this company and their way of doing business..  I'm not talking out my &@($*. 

 

Wow, thanks for that insight. I didn't know they were doing that with the reviews.

 

EDIT: Here's a direct link for the reviews, listed a most helpful: http://steamcommunity.com/app/24010/reviews/?p=1&browsefilter=toprated

Edited July 10, 201411 yr by linux731

My biggest concern is what about the many many many freeware and payware addons for FSX?   A steam version of FSX would cause problems with that as far as I could tell.   

 

Im not an xplane user, but i was enthused to see steam bring that aboard.  I will problably use steam to manage Xplane for the simple reason that this is still a live product with ongoing developments.    

My biggest concern is what about the many many many freeware and payware addons for FSX?   A steam version of FSX would cause problems with that as far as I could tell.   

 

Im not an xplane user, but i was enthused to see steam bring that aboard.  I will problably use steam to manage Xplane for the simple reason that this is still a live product with ongoing developments.

 

 

Everyone needs to understand XPX is lacking in real world weather and AI/ATC, it's not a viable option for those who want the whole experience FSX gave them. FS9/P3D are the only two options if FSX goes south and activation is cut by MS in favor of pushing people over to DT.

I cloned the HDD with my activated FSX and all installed addons to an external drive - am I safe?