SlowFlyer

I have given a few bucks to a few kickstarting ventures over the years. Mostly for inexpensive items, with money I am willing to risk, but this seems so far-fetched, I just have to shake my head. If $8,000 is the amount of money stopping him from fulfill his dreams to get a flight sim "off the ground", I am willing to bet even if he raises three times that amount, it will fail. Eight thousand dollars is a nice sum of money, but it's really not so much that he and his delevoper friends couldn't get a part time job for a year, and use that money to develop a working demo to show us to get us to invest money with them. If he truly will be able to demo a "A380", and an airport, in about four months, why doesn't he wait to show us what he has before asking for money? If he could show us the "goods", I am very sure he would have a lot of us flooding his project with money. But not now. I worry when he doesn't name who his developer friends are, and which BIG name flight sims they have helped and developed for. He didn't even bother to post many pics of what he has developed on this site or even his facebook page. For a flight simmer, he facebook page has nothing i can see about flight sims or planes, etc. I think he's a dreamer. Good for him. lol. Dream big...I wish him luck, but not dimes. Even dreamers with good intent can waste your money as badly as evil scammers... Just my thinking on this. .

I hope this partnership will extend to their new upcoming flight sim.

Well, delays happen, but for me, it's a little bit of a let down to hear it's going to be delayed just a week before we expected it to be released. I was hoping to see a lot of reviews and videos next week. A month isn't a long time to wait, but it is (lol) when you want to see how something "new". I wish, instead, they would just released it, and then make an announcement that they will release a patch next month, listing what will be improved, changed, added, etc... to build even more excitement. Some gamers/people don't take things well whenever something is delayed. unfortunately.

Not to venture off topic, but I wonder how Xplane will react. I view DTG as more of a competitor to Xplane than Prepar3d.

I just visited the DTG's website and their Facebook page, and I didn't see anything rcent about their new upcoming flight sim. The most recent info I see is in this thread - about an upcoming announcement. On their facebook page, there's a post from 6 months ago, stating this flight sim will be on PCs. Maybe on consoles "down the road", but for now, they are focusing on a PC release. This suggests to me that we won't see a release for another 1.5 years from now. Am I being too pessimistic? By that time we might see a new P3D version 4 and Xplane 11. I think I might have been hyping myself up too much about this upcoming flight sim, but I might have to wait a while LONGER, lol. (But... I'm still excited for the upcoming announcement!!)

Hi everyone, I admit I am getting more excited about DTG's announcement as the time gets nearer, and I am hoping they make a detailed statement about any upcoming features their new flight sim might have along with their announcement; but, not to be a Debbie Downer, but more likely than not, they are only going to announce their new flight sim is being developed. I can think of many airplanes that were announced over 1.5 years ago, and they are still in development. So a whole new flight sim, even if it is based on MS flight tech, will still take time to develop. The fact that we have not seen ONE screenshot of this flight sim tells me we might be waiting a while before we play it. I hardly doubt they are going to release a beta, never mind, a full game in the next few weeks. Even then, it will take a while before we see airplanes like complex, realistic planes for it. I am not as young as I used to be...lol... so I guess this flight sim might be for the young ones who will live long enough to see it mature like Xplane, FSX-SE, Prepar3d... But it's exciting to see what they announce. But I also have concerns, like (sorry, I don't know which poster) a poster posted earlier in this thread: Why would they want to "cannibalize" there share in FSX-SE by releasing a more complex flight sim; they might want the more "laid back" flight gamer.... just my thoughts.

​I think that since MS Flight was not a "whole world" flight sim, I don't know if DTG will put out a fully flyable world. Wouldn't they instead want to roll out a lot of "world region" DLCs for people to buy on top of their game? If you want to fly the north pacific...you can buy that DLC. If you want to fly Alaska...you can buy that DLC. etc. Isn't that want they do with their train sim? You buy lines? Hopefully, DTG has had the time to have already produce a lot of simple airplanes, simple regions, etc, so when they offer their flight sim, hopefully we will have a good amount of DLCs to buy immediately. I hope DTG offers a full (whatever that means, lol) flight sim, but I am not holding my breathe that we will see another FSX type of sim - out of the box. But we will learn more in a couple more weeks...I hope. I am excited, but tempering in my expectations. :-)

Ha, I finally can give an answer I know... The Who Baba O'Riley Most people think it's called...teenage wasteland, but they are wrong :-)

I use FSX-SE. Before that FSX. I am seriously considering getting DCS' A-10C Warthog and the Nevada map. I wish I had more time to invest in a lot of different flight sims. IL-2 Looks incredible too.

For me, I am enjoying this thread and its craziness. Sometimes in life you have to just go with the flow and have a bit of a laugh and embrace the craziness at times. I would love to be a "mayor" of some where or something, so if I can throw my hat into the ring, I predict v3 will be out next year...January 5, 2016, after the holidays are over. How does anyone else waste anyone else's time? lol.

I don't see prices listed. Is this one of those, "if you need to ask, you can't afford it" item? lol.

You could wait, but for $5, you could install FSX-SE now and enjoy using it now while we wait for a 64 bit P3D. I have no idea, but I don't think we will see a 64 bit P3D for at least another year (and maybe even longer). P3D 32 bit addons will not be compatible when a 64 bit P3D comes out, so if the choice is between FSX SE or waiting, I would get FSX SE and have fun using it

Put me down as another buyer of FSX - SE. For 5 dollars, I couldn't resist. I broke down and bought it on Steam even though I already have the disks. I also find Steam very convenient and easy to use.

I agree. I know I posted a long time back about this. My understanding is: the trees and buildings are big because then you won't need as many of them in any given area, where as, having smaller buildings, houses, trees would requires more of them thus impacting performance.

Thanks for the responses. Some of the responses make a lot of sense. This is why I frequently visit Avsim everyday. Many great and knowledgeable people who offer good advice and bring up reasons and ideas haven't consider. This makes for a great discussion/forum. Avsim is always interesting and increases my knowledge above and beyond just aviation material. I spend more time reading topics than using FSX :lol: Again, thanks to all of you.