Considering the accumulating infos I'd say that the NDA will indeed be lifted for content creators on thursday.

12 minutes ago, wim123 said:

i understand the impatience of a lot of ppl here, but its only  a matter of weeks and then we can see for yourself how

There's Einsteins special and general relativity, but most people do not know about exciting relativity:

The closer you get to release, the slower time passes by!

Edited July 29, 20205 yr by tweekz

NDA to be lifted for official media, if content creators are part of that group, I can't tell, I guess we'll find out soon enough 🙂

 

 

 

In this and other matters, a clear word from MS would have been really helpful.

Kind regards, Michael

At this point they might as well lift the NDA this close to release.  The leakers aren't holding back anymore and new pics/vids are going online daily.  And honestly the leaks are doing a alot to generate positive buzz for the sim anyway, might as well open the floodgates and reap the benefits of it!

3 hours ago, pmb said:

In this and other matters, a clear word from MS would have been really helpful.

Kind regards, Michael

I can't help but having the feeling that the whole release was a bit rushed along with some confusion. I mean, we knew about the Beta for a while, but 3 weeks?

13 minutes ago, tweekz said:

I can't help but having the feeling that the whole release was a bit rushed along with some confusion. I mean, we knew about the Beta for a while, but 3 weeks?

I can't deny that.

Kind regards, Michael

It's pretty standard, when there are news releases by the media, to have an embargo on the timing of the release, so that all the media can release news at the same time. Standard stuff, really.

We also do not know if there have been closed Beta releases to others, apart from Avsimmers. I'm sure that Beta's have been released to other testers before. Niave to think otherwise.

49 minutes ago, Mengy said:

And honestly the leaks are doing a alot to generate positive buzz for the sim anyway, might as well open the floodgates and reap the benefits of it!

Yeah, that would be fun. 😅

I think stating the release is being rushed is perhaps exaggerated. Obviously it depends on your point of view. I first heard of the project back in June 2019, almost 14 months ago. They could've chosen not to disclose anything so early back. 14 months is a long time to wait in anticipation for such a promising piece of software. I'm not saying they couldn't have waited abit longer to polish things out, but I'm not of the opinion the release was rushed either. We'll find out more in 20 days.

Edited July 29, 20205 yr by canadiantree

1 hour ago, canadiantree said:

I think stating the release is being rushed is perhaps exaggerated. Obviously it depends on your point of view. I first heard of the project back in June 2019, almost 14 months ago. They could've chosen not to disclose anything so early back. 14 months is a long time to wait in anticipation for such a promising piece of software. I'm not saying they couldn't have waited abit longer to polish things out, but I'm not of the opinion the release was rushed either. We'll find out more in 20 days.

Rushed compared to what ?

Like you, I do not think that it is released in advance of the date set when Asobo and MS signed their contract. Maybe a couple of months were even added due to the epidemy. 

Rushed before to be satisfactorily completed compared to Asobo's goals as presented in the EP  ? We'll see soon enough. It is a pretty ambitious project  and maybe Asobo didn't measure up the difficulty.  A good indicator will be  for me the flight models of  the default aircraft.

Yeah, software projects tend to benefit from a little more time. My gut feeling tells me that 2 more months testing would've been a good call.

But we shall see. I think the flight engine is fundamentally OK. I have seen some aspects that make me believe it's potentially quite good, but it still needs some adjustments and testing (both, engine & planes). They have 30 planes and seemingly didn't have the time to fine tune yet, as there sure are other more fundamental bugs. I hope they at least get rid of the arcady behavior until release.

Edited July 29, 20205 yr by tweekz

3 hours ago, canadiantree said:

I first heard of the project back in June 2019, almost 14 months ago. They could've chosen not to disclose anything so early back. 14 months is a long time to wait in anticipation for such a promising piece of software.

They announced MSFS that long ago in order to 'advertise' for Alpha testers. It would have been rather difficult to select any at all otherwise!

1 hour ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

In my world the SDK is everything, not being able to discuss it in public leaves us DLC partners in a bad position especially around end user expectations and what will certainly end up as a pile questions of "how come there is no..."?

I didn't expect quality software to be rolled out within a few months anyways. Till then I hope and assume that the SDK will evolve with your feedback. I think ASOBO knows that the SDK has a long way to go - hence the NDA.

Besides, we don't neet a lift of NDA to know what you think about its current state. 😄 You made that pretty clear.

Edited July 29, 20205 yr by tweekz

14 minutes ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Maybe you don't because you're aware and experienced the past ... but others will have very different expectations and those will need to be addressed one way or another come August 18th ... lets hope MS/Asobo are willing to share that responsibility.

Cheers, Rob.

This does not sound overly optimistic!