Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary

[brucewtb 250]

Will anyone here be celebrating the 40th anniversary of Microsoft Flight Simulator?  I understand it will be going off with a bang over at the other place.

Bruce

[David Mills 4,774]

6 minutes ago, brucewtb said:

Will anyone here be celebrating the 40th anniversary of Microsoft Flight Simulator?  I understand it will be going off with a bang over at the other place.

Bruce

Yes, absolutely. It's going to be a big day.

[d.tsakiris 420]

No, no celebrations planned. Didn't even know that anniversary was coming up.

[Juliett Alfa Romeo 561]

I will follow "Twitchers", Youtubers and such... that's it for now.

I thought a lot these days if I buy MSFS but in the end I decided to bet on the "safe side"* and continue with P3D.

* Historical weather, the entire 737NGXu fleet, FSLabs... the huge scenery library I have...

[Ray Proudfoot 9,041]

What is there to celebrate when Microsoft abandoned flight sim back in 2009?

Maybe users in this forum should be celebrating the anniversary of LM releasing P3D v1 in Autumn 2010.

[Ray Proudfoot 9,041]

59 minutes ago, Juliet Alpha said:

Historical weather, the entire 737NGXu fleet, FSLabs... the huge scenery library I have...

And the magnificent FS Labs 64-bit Concorde due in a few months … hopefully. 😉

[Torsen 496]

wow the frustrations have to be quite big with some of us 😄 They celebrate 40 years of the brand and nobody in this context cares about if they left the sim for a few years, abondened Flight or who else brought something out some years ago. Its a happy day for the ones using MSFS and I will at least enjoy what we have now and get today. Enjoy the sim you fly. I enjoy three of them even if the two older ones are quite hard to look at in the meantime...

Happy flying!

Cheers T.

oh just noticed the post is def in the wrong forum! Sorry...

Edited November 11, 2022 by Torsen

[Ray Proudfoot 9,041]

1 hour ago, Torsen said:

wow the frustrations have to be quite big with some of us

There was a great deal of anger and sadness when Microsoft  sacked the Aces Team. We felt abandoned.

1 hour ago, Torsen said:

They celebrate 40 years of the brand and nobody in this context cares about if they left the sim for a few years,

It's not the same simulator as Asobo have been heavily involved. There was an 14 year gap between the release of FSX and MSFS being launched. That's more than a few years.

They've burnt their bridges as far as I'm concerned.

1 hour ago, Torsen said:

oh just noticed the post is def in the wrong forum! Sorry...

Don't worry, not a problem.

[blaunarwal 433]

Prepar3D is also an descendant of FS1, so we can also celebrate. At least, they confess still beeing part of this development.

I started flightsimming with Falcon 3 in 1991 I think and soon came into contact with FS4. Since then, I had all versions and after FSX I changed to P3D1.4 and went further with that.

So thats 31 years for me. I think it's cool to celebrate 40 years flightsim, no matter what you fly.

Dan

[Torsen 496]

41 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

There was a great deal of anger and sadness when Microsoft  sacked the Aces Team. We felt abandoned.

Actually I can remember the day. It put a big question mark on our hobby and was quite depressing back then. But as we have seen there is always light at the end of the tunnel. And today we are in a way better position as ever before.

Cheers T.

[anden145 2,299]

@Ray Proudfoot I have the upmost respect for you, but was that really necessary? 🙂

Besides, it's the brand and concept of "Microsoft Flight Simulator", which are being celebrated. Not a specific sim... at least that's the way I see it. 🙂 
I'm very much looking forward to this Anniversary Update. Lots of good stuff! 

Cheers everyone and happy flying. 

[Ray Proudfoot 9,041]

1 minute ago, anden145 said:

@Ray Proudfoot I have the upmost respect for you, but was that really necessary? 🙂

Besides, it's the brand and concept of "Microsoft Flight Simulator", which are being celebrated. Not a specific sim... at least that's the way I see it. 🙂 
I'm very much looking forward to this Anniversary Update. Lots of good stuff! 

Cheers everyone and happy flying. 

Was what really necessary? Expressing how I feel? I don’t see any relation to the versions of FS that Aces produced and the current release.

It’s as different as chalk and cheese. So much so I can’t buy into it.

[Ray Proudfoot 9,041]

25 minutes ago, Torsen said:

Actually I can remember the day. It put a big question mark on our hobby and was quite depressing back then. But as we have seen there is always light at the end of the tunnel. And today we are in a way better position as ever before.

Cheers T.

Indeed it was. The light at the end of the tunnel for me has been LM embracing ESP and making it so much better whilst retaining backward compatibility.

[GCBraun 2,420]

Such a depressive mood in this topic compared to the enthusiasm, good memories and excitement in the other one. I know which party/crowd I will be joining this weekend! 😀

[Nuno Pinto 1,414]

I'll be flying the 310 like crazy (if it does come out) in celebration! Never had one and can't stop talking about it ❤️

I just hope it is very high fidelity, it does look like it, fingers crossed!