On 2/28/2020 at 10:51 AM, domkle said:

The genuine basic concern we may have, Martin, is how much the real sim differs from the lovely pic and video teasers which show the best of it.

 

Yes, I understand that concern. We have been disappointed in the past. But the developers have been VERY forthcoming with information regarding this product and are clearly paying attention to our wants and needs and bending over backwards to give us what we desire. And given all the technical detail we have been given, I'm finding it hard to be pessimistic.

So yes, I'm far more optimistic about this release than past flight sims.

It was said that Microsoft Flight Simulator is planned to be a 10-year project. A DirectX 12 and ray-tracing update has already been confirmed, and further revenue will come via an integrated marketplace. I don't think we will see a sequel until a disruptive new technology, like Azure processing satellite data, will make an appearance. They are upgrading a huge part of the old feature set to make up for all those years of stagnant progress, so a sequel after two years would likely be an extremely incremental upgrade.

I think that we should worry about a sequel long after MSFS has been released, at least 10 years after that. 

So, no going out to buy a suitable PC for that, as yet. 

47 minutes ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

A DirectX 12 and ray-tracing update has already been confirmed

Wait what? Where?

4 minutes ago, nikita said:

Wait what? Where?

Not for initial release, but it is in the plan to update to dx12

2 hours ago, Casualcas said:

Very similar to what the competition does.  They make an update,  something breaks. I dont know how 3pd keep up while still producing new products. 

haha... well... either that or they don't care much and every once in a while release a new version that renders 80% of the addons obsolete. 😄

I’m presuming the “unforeseen travel issues” were something to do with coronavirus. I wonder whether it will cause any delay to the game long-term. 

7 hours ago, G-RFRY said:

I still have the disc but I suspect this will be a digital version not disc. 

They will release it via 1.44MB floppy disks to you only.  Insert disk 1 of ? and push ENTER.  Digital download for the rest of us.

38 minutes ago, Brandon01110 said:

They will release it via 1.44MB floppy disks to you only.  Insert disk 1 of ? and push ENTER.  Digital download for the rest of us.

Oh thank god I kept my old Zip drive

49 minutes ago, Brandon01110 said:

They will release it via 1.44MB floppy disks to you only.  Insert disk 1 of ? and push ENTER.  Digital download for the rest of us.

I don't have a problem with downloading product`s and Subscription software but the fact this will supported for life and updated for free I was not aware of that. 

2 hours ago, nikita said:

Wait what? Where?

At 19:13 Lionel talks about it.

1 hour ago, Superdelphinus said:

I’m presuming the “unforeseen travel issues” were something to do with coronavirus. I wonder whether it will cause any delay to the game long-term. 

At least in quarantine people have time to play alpha version.

ok, lets hope that coronavirus stays in control at Europe.

Edited February 29, 20206 yr by zemez

It shouldn't impact too much. Microsoft owns Skype for business after all. 😄

2 hours ago, Casualcas said:

Especially when you can sell a plane for twice what the base sim cost. Ehm

This comparison is not fair.

One man develope an aircraft usually in more than a year for a few copies revenue while a sim revenues hundred thousand or even million copies.

22 hours ago, Doug47 said:

There's 34,000+ on the 'coming soon' insiders forum. It seems most of those have the insiders alpha badge. 

Be a start if you could actually join the insider thing, that never works when I try it.