Have any of you here seen this interview yet? Even though it's a month old, I just came across it and thought it was a bit interesting. Although he seems to be very arrogant in his response about the future of X-Plane. What are your overall feelings and opinions on this interview? Curious to hear the feedback from the avsim community.

 

I listened to that last week.  It’s just vintage Austin really.  Some love his enthusiasm, which is infectious, but I find the sort of back handed compliments and subtle constant digs that he employs tiresome, so not really any different take on him than any other interview of his I’ve ever heard.  (Although 100 percent love from me on his fight against the patent trolls, and his charitable work)

 

but essentially, to each his own.  Austin makes the sim he wants to make.  I buy the sim I want to fly.  It’s not the same one, but more power to him.  

Of course he'll be abrasive because his market share is about to go pop.

It's Austin being Austin. He's actually nice to chat to if you ever get the chance, but he's single-minded in what he wants to do; you could never persuade him otherwise. On the plus side, that's what gave him the drive to create his thing. 

But it's the same old tune with the flight model, where he insists blade element theory is a flawless replication of everything, which it quite clearly isn't. If it was, it wouldn't even be a point of contention - an Xplane Spitfire  would be a perfect replication of the real thing. What's more, if blade element theory was the perfect way to make a flight sim, every company making a flight sim would use that method; it's not like Laminar Research invented it, B.E.T. has been around since the Victorian age.

28 minutes ago, Chock said:

But it's the same old tune with the flight model, where he insists blade element theory is a flawless replication of everything, which it quite clearly isn't.

Exactly that statement brought me a one week ban for trolling over at the org forums. lol

 

54 minutes ago, ShawnG said:

Austin makes the sim he wants to make.  I buy the sim I want to fly.  It’s not the same one, but more power to him.  

Exactly that! XP has a great commuinty which puts a lot of effort in creating stuff (like the airports), but essentially LR just uses them instead of involving them in the direction the sim goes. It's basically Austins hobby project (he's involved in so many other things).

  

28 minutes ago, Chock said:

He's actually nice to chat to if you ever get the chance

That's true as well. He reminds me of my mechanical engineering professor. 😄

Edited August 13, 20205 yr by tweekz

I honestly don't know how he can take the view that nothing is going to change.   This is the most significant shift in his competition since 1995.  He hasn't paid attention to the detail.  But as said above, he is laser focused and nothing will change his view on the product he has lived and breathed for 25 years.

Edited August 13, 20205 yr by ErichB

9 minutes ago, ErichB said:

I honestly don't know how he can take the view that nothing is going to change.   This is the most significant shift in his competition since 1995.  He hasn't paid attention to the detail.  But as said above, he is laser focused and nothing will change his view on the product he has lived and breathed for 25 years.

His core group of supporters also hold the same view.

I have a lot of respect for Austin, but I think I can see that his intelligence, passion and drive might sometimes override his attentiveness to his audience and come across as arrogance.

Pretty sure he’ll come up with some compelling competition for MSFS in XP12 and I really hope he does. Even though I’m as excited for MSFS as a virus being coughed towards an unmasked face, I wouldn’t like to see MS entrusted with a monopoly XP is unable to challenge.

I guess I’d be more worried about P3D’s future if I were a customer...

He can't compete on world wide scenery. But he could complete on weather simulation. It's one of the most important parts of flight and until now no sim has actually attempted to simulate it.

It's pretty hard to compete with the combined might and resources of Microsoft, but I hope he does well if anything to help keep Microsoft sharp and on their toes.

 

12 minutes ago, byork said:

.....to help keep Microsoft sharp and on their toes.

I doubt that anything Austin can do will have that effect.  Numbers-wise, X-plane is and will remain pretty marginal and numbers are all Microsoft will be interested in.

Austins done a great job with XPlane and its now "Horses for Courses", each to his own. Why not support them all, which I think a lot of us have and will continue to do.

2 hours ago, VBHB said:

Of course he'll be abrasive because his market share is about to go pop.

xplane enjoy a strong community; also serve different markets and platforms than msfs

just to give you an idea about xplane

https://davidrobson.me/the-intelligence-trap/

2 hours ago, VBHB said:

Of course he'll be abrasive because his market share is about to go pop.

Clearly you know nothing about xplane then, with an uninformed comment like that. Xplane will be fine, like it has been for 2 decades.