2 hours ago, Greazer said:

What support. There hasn't been a patch in about 12 years and people have move on anyway.

Someone has to keep the portal open as FSX:SE is still selling well. DTG cannot do so because their licenses expired and they did not want to renew it.

That is called "support."

2 hours ago, Greazer said:

What support. There hasn't been a patch in about 12 years and people have move on anyway.

Not true. This was done in 2015. https://steamcommunity.com/app/314160/discussions/0/496881136926977562/

1 hour ago, Sagoland said:

Not true. This was done in 2015. https://steamcommunity.com/app/314160/discussions/0/496881136926977562/

4 years is so long. XP11 has grown exponentially since then. And taken most simmers.

Copied from my own message on "What's Your Deal-breaker" Thread:

"...……..It makes no sense at all to try to start a new simulator with a fresh piece of paper from ground up in the belief (hopes) that it can compete and improve on what's been around for years. It makes far more sense to "throw away" the weakest part (scenery)  and capitalize on the ongoing development of  - most likely FSW - and maybe even P3D. As far as I understand both contracts (from what little was made public), neither LM nor Dovetail Games were ever given complete rights to the FSX engine, so I would not be at all surprised to see a 64 bit engine remarkably similar to FSW and P3D (….including SimConnect) "

 

Just my two cents here. Primary plan of attack-convert FSX 32 bit to 64 bit. Revamp all the scenery to use Unity (as per the nice video a couple pages back). Tweak UI, weather, aircraft, ATC etc, to represent a more up to date expectation of each. It always seemed that scenery was the biggest drawback for flight sims, especially when it came to accuracy. I’m not a developer or tech of any type, just a user. But the bottom line is, until they show us or tell us, it is what it is, just our 2 cents worth. Discussion is valuable though, they apparently monitor sites such as this and will have known what the expectations are from many future customers. It’s theirs to win or lose!

I think it's an enhanced version of Forzatech.It's modern, it's built inhouse, it's well optimized for Xbox.

On 8/21/2019 at 9:45 PM, Greazer said:

4 years is so long. XP11 has grown exponentially since then. And taken most simmers.

Over this month, fsx has almost twice the average number of players per day than x-plane on steam. Any stats on non-steam players?

On 8/21/2019 at 4:45 PM, Greazer said:

XP11 has grown exponentially since then. And taken most simmers.

Wonder where you received this information (at least here at AVSIM).  AVSIM employs Google Analytics and, so far during the month of August, the Prepar3D Forum was the most visited with 69,647 hits; then the new Microsoft Flight Forum with 64,108 hits; the X-Plane General Discussions Forum with15,831 hits; and then the FSX/FSX-SE Forum with 5,679 hits.  So, at least on AVSIM, the P3D Forum is the most popular frequented by Guests and Members.  I might add that AVSIM has enjoyed between 1.2 million and almost 2.4 million hits each month over the past year.  AVSIM appreciates the continued popularity from our membership and guests.

 @Greazer I’m guessing you are primarily an XP user based on your comments and YouTube channel. Do you use any other flight sims? What’s interesting is that the majority of your Avsim activity seems to be in this forum and not the XP forum. Why is that? Constructive criticism should always be welcomed. I’m not seeing much constructive in your comments, though. But maybe that’s just a short coming on my part. 

2 minutes ago, snglecoil said:

 @Greazer I’m guessing you are primarily an XP user based on your comments and YouTube channel. Do you use any other flight sims? What’s interesting is that the majority of your Avsim activity seems to be in this forum and not the XP forum. Why is that? 

I have been on Avsim since FS2004 days. XP may be the primary one right now but I am not "locked in" to only one sim. 

1 hour ago, snglecoil said:

 @Greazer I’m guessing you are primarily an XP user based on your comments and YouTube channel. Do you use any other flight sims? What’s interesting is that the majority of your Avsim activity seems to be in this forum and not the XP forum. Why is that? Constructive criticism should always be welcomed. I’m not seeing much constructive in your comments, though. But maybe that’s just a short coming on my part. 

I think most X-Plane users are using the .org forum for the X-Plane related discussions. There's also the Steam X-Plane discussions board. Both are really active boards. The Avsim X-plane forum is quite dead when compared to Steam and the .org.

On 8/21/2019 at 4:53 PM, Adrian123 said:

Prepar3dV4, MS flight and FSW where all built on a FSX 32 bit code and converted to 64 bit.

 

Why does this myth keep to flourish in here??

If you really, seriously think, that Prepar3D V4 is "FSX converted to 64-bit", then you really need to have a closer look as to what Prepar3D really is and what is included, developed, improved and exactly what Lockheed-Martin have accomplished! 

I'm sorry, but quite frankly, I find it a bit weird, that people keep making this statement.

4 hours ago, Jim Young said:

Wonder where you received this information (at least here at AVSIM).  AVSIM employs Google Analytics and, so far during the month of August, the Prepar3D Forum was the most visited with 69,647 hits; then the new Microsoft Flight Forum with 64,108 hits; the X-Plane General Discussions Forum with15,831 hits; and then the FSX/FSX-SE Forum with 5,679 hits.  So, at least on AVSIM, the P3D Forum is the most popular frequented by Guests and Members.  I might add that AVSIM has enjoyed between 1.2 million and almost 2.4 million hits each month over the past year.  AVSIM appreciates the continued popularity from our membership and guests.

There is a world beyond Avsim, and respectfully, Avsim in the past have always been pretty much FSX/P3D centric. As others mentioned Avsim is not the go-to forum for XP, just like it isn't for DCS or Aerofly FS2.

Never mind forum hits, just look at the steam usage. 

Hope it's Microsoft's cloud based computers what ever they decide.