ORBX openLC Asia Officially Dead

[dave2013 1,128]

Well, ORBX finally admitted that their promised openLC for Asia is no longer in development.

The single developer apparently is located in Ukraine, so it is understandable that he is no longer able to continue work on the project.  Of course, I wish him all the best under the circumstances.

It is unfortunate that ORBX announced 2 years ago that they were working on the project and that it would be split into 3 phases, and they didn't even manage to complete the first phase.

They refused for many months to provide even a brief update on its progress, and when they finally did they stated that the developer had resumed work on it.  Then they again refused to provide any updates for several months, and now have finally admitted the truth that the project is dead.

They have locked all threads about openLC Asia as it is clear they want nothing further to do with it.

ORBX is clearly 100% devoted to MSFS now and couldn't care less about openLC, yet they continue to claim that they are indeed still interested in P3D.

How sad.

Dave

 

 

 

[johnbow72 2,722]

It all went south when JV (John Venema) stepped down as CEO .

[Jack_Sawyer 4,600]

I would love to comment on this but it's better not to.

[gregmorin 199]

Just now, Jack_Sawyer said:

I would love to comment on this but it's better not to.

I am reading your mind Jack😊

Greg

 

[Jack_Sawyer 4,600]

Just now, gregmorin said:

I am reading your mind Jack😊

Greg

 

😀😃😄😆😅🤣😂

[d.tsakiris 418]

Here is the quote:

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Unfortunately, this is on hold indefinitely as our Ukrainian developer is unable to work. Difficult to predict when this may come back into our roadmap. Sad circumstances.

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"On hold indefinitely" admittedly doesn't sound good, but I wouldn't go so far to say it's "dead". At least not at the moment.

[DModjo 115]

Yeah it's not "officially" dead.

I'd say perhaps it's unlikely to arrive though. The P3D market is small now and the amount of work creating the land classes would hardly be worth the ROI.

It sucks as I was still looking forward to it despite using MSFS. 

[jaytee73 132]

5 hours ago, johnbow72 said:

It all went south when JV (John Venema) stepped down as CEO .

You are quite right - in that John handed over the reins of the operations as C.E.O. in Sept 2019

-- but you left out the fact that as at June 2021 - John still owns around 95% of the company's shares

and I doubt that he would allow any "Going South" as you call it😉

[787flyer 633]

Shame to hear about the demise of LC Asia. I agree its unlikely to make it to market based on Anna's last comments.

 

In addition, its quite disappointing that out of Orbx's announcements on what's to come in 2022 regarding new releases for P3D, the only one that came to fruition was Prague.

Apart from that, KPBI and TE Eastern Alps also have not made it this year, thus far. And a number of conversions from P3Dv4 to v5 have also not occurred. I guess they have been busy making Orbs instead! 🙃

[speedyTC 195]

Unless P3D v6.x is a complete game changer I'm afraid that this version of flight-simming is dead in the water. I very much doubt LM will bother to take on the MS/Asobo team as far as the entertainment market is concerned and will probably continue development of P3D for their own specific purposes.

The choice now is between X-Plane and MSFS.

[Juliett Alfa Romeo 530]

...until the day Microsoft shuts down the MSFS servers, which could happen at any time (yeah, I know there's allegedly a 10-year commitment. I don't buy that).

 

[pedrotrindade 335]

It's beyond me why, supposelly flight sim fans, still upvote and like this kind of topics/announcements. 

[David Vega 348]

Sounds like there's enough of the project completed that, if they were to find another developer, or the current developer were to resume work, they would continue the project. I can imagine this as a lot of work for one developer given that Asia is a big chunk of land. 

[FrankSalo 272]

5 hours ago, Juliet Alpha said:

...until the day Microsoft shuts down the MSFS servers, which could happen at any time (yeah, I know there's allegedly a 10-year commitment. I don't buy that).

 

Then Lockheed would acquire it and create the new true to life Land, Sea and Air training software platform named Deploy3d™ 2030 with backwards compatibility to MSFS addons. 

[Juliett Alfa Romeo 530]

lol, who knows...