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Microsoft Flight Simulator - Dune Expansion Announce Trailer

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Ooohh, interesting! When I saw Villeneuve's badass rendition of the ornithopter, I thought to myself: "It would be awesome if I could fly that in FS." Well there we go, it should provide some escapism when I don't feel like starting the Fenix from cold and dark!

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3 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

What I see here is a lot of sheer talentuous work… that didn’t go to improve the sim aircraft and sceneries. 

If it’s like top gun, most of it would have been outsourced with Asobo handling final integration.
So no it didn’t take away any significant development time from the base sim.

I doubt working title worked on this.

Edited by Tuskin38

16 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

 
So no it didn’t take away any significant development time from the base sim.

 

Speculation. I believe what I see. 

Dominique

Simming since 1981 -  [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam

 

not into that so won't spam my NVM with this though I expect that frame rates must be exceptional taking into account the given scenery 😉

Phil Leaven

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1 minute ago, Dominique_K said:

Speculation. I believe what I see. 

It doesn’t show anything to backup what you said

whoever did it, it didn't do for free,. The money spent on Dune could have been spent on improving the sim. Thats it.  

Dominique

Simming since 1981 -  [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam

 

2 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

whoever did it, it didn't do for free,. The money spent on Dune could have been spent on improving the sim. Thats it.  

Not necessarily. And this kind of advertising brings in more money than it costs 

this is better for the sim in the long run

Edited by Tuskin38

Does the dragonfly thing have an EFB pad?  If not, it's lazy, and a deal breaker for me! 

They will never get the spice in on a PEGI 3 game rating anyway (copious use of drugs).  No spice - no dice!  :unsure:

Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

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3 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

 

They will never get the spice in on a PEGI 3 game rating anyway (copious use of drugs).  No spice - no dice!  :unsure:

😄

 Best comment in this thread so far  ! Love it...

Dominique

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Excited about this?. Not me

Cheers, Ed

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Excellent tie-in! Looking forward to the 2nd film. Have they said anything about the map?  

What is "Dune"?😉

Kind regards, Michael

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4 minutes ago, pmb said:

What is "Dune"?😉

Kind regards, Michael

Under what rock have you been living the last 58 years since the Book was released?

8 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

What I see here is a lot of sheer talentuous work… that didn’t go to improve the sim aircraft and sceneries. 

You  must have missed AAU1 and AAU2.

7 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

whoever did it, it didn't do for free,. The money spent on Dune could have been spent on improving the sim. Thats it.  

Mmm... no... think again. I'd virtually guarantee you this is just pure promo money from HBO. 

You don't think Asobo paid for the Top Gun expansion, do you?

The movie studio/producer (in this case HBO) pays Microsoft to put their content in, and then Asobo contracts a dev and pays them. It's a very standard product marketing relationship. 

If they're smart, Microsoft probably makes $50k-100k per arrangement like this, possibly more, depending on how they market the potential size of the audience. 

 

Now, there's a very legitimate question about how studios pay for this sort of video game cross-branding, and how that affects your streaming subscription price, as well as how the economics of streaming (don't) work, but that's entirely unrelated to flight sim. 

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