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With the collapse of Flight and most publishers washing their hands of GFWL(Codemasters/Creative Assembly/Slightly Mad Studios/Bohemia etc.etc.)will GFWL be next in line for the cull. Microsoft Games Division seem to be in turmoil the past few years and I remember them hailing Flight in 2010 as the start of a new era for MS in taking pc gaming seriously. Would love to know what happened to the once kingpin of pc gaming. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the link Mad. Will keep FSX installed and all my addons,but just don't see myself staying on board.Time for me to move on,can't handle the 2005/6 visuals any more,FSX with modern graphics and I would have been happy as a pig in. As I stated before,have spent a long many hours trying to like XP but just not happening. 4 or 5 years time maybe there will be something to get me back flying,at least my wife is happy now lol.

Really would have loved FS11,don't understand why MS killed the franchise.Anyway all good things come to an end,feel really sorry for the guys and gals at the Studio who were let go,hope all find employment soon as from what Flight could have been they are a talented bunch. Pretty much the end of flight simming for me as I think Xplane is terrible and don't really understand the nuances of prepar3d. Anyway not bitter,will move on an concentrate all my pc time to racing sims. Hope this sub section of Flight doesn't die straight away for the sake of the people left playing for the next few months. RIP MS Flight Sim(some really great times had over the past 15 years or so,gone but not forgotten).

Just came back to Flight this week after after quiting Hawaii 3 months ago(played a lot on the Beta so not knocking Hawaii). Had some MS points left over so decided to check out Alaska.Why have they downgraded the graphics?Textures in and around most of the airports are really bad.Would have thought from seeing the screenshots that Alaska was going to be a visual feast,I was mistaken. As for the few challenges I only completed the 1st landing challenge as they make me use the Cub for the next couple(have tried to fly the Cub without the VC and just can't do it with no instruments to line myself up for approach).Have no interest in doing the Gold rings challenges after doing them in Hawaii. I would consider myself a ''casual simmer'' for the past 25 years and have enjoyed all sorts of flight sims/games so have been left really confused and extremely dissapointed by what seems to have been a half hearted rush job on Alaska,hence the very reasonable price for it. Plus side it's great to have Trackir implented and works really well in Flight. Anyway Im not finished with Flight yet,going to wait and see what happens over the coming months as I think MS are really testing the waters with Alaska and seeing what they can get away it. I see a lot of fellow members that really like Alaska so maybe I have too high expectations after what I considered a solid start for Flight. Really hope that MS starts to get serious about Flight in the upcoming months(don't mean make into FS11)as there is still huge potential for it. p.s. Great to see the Flight section of Avsim a nice place to visit again after the turmoil pre and post release, as I much rather read constructive and helpful posts without having to trawl through the no VC/not FSX nonense and flaming/trolling posts. So thanks to Tom and the mods for rescuing the Flight forum.

Congrats and good luck Jereon,nice to see a fellow countryman on the staff.

Read all the reviews on the GTX670,very good card and only marinally behind the 680 for a lot less money. What res are you running Flight at?Hope you enjoy,as dburne mentioned a really good upgrade from a 280.

Have to agree,spent 90% of my sim flying time in Europe over the past 15 years.Mainland USA holds no interest for me.Looking forward to Alaska all the same but hoping some part of Europe is covered before the end of 2012.Hawaii is very nice apart from being empty of life(cars/birds/animals/atc/ai/empty int airports etc),hopefully all added sooner or later.

Ok,just received a reply from MS about the free DLC for Beta testers.Seems only some people who were ''helpful'' during the Beta were ''selected'' for the free DLC.Not too unhappy as at least MS bothered to reply to my query.Next step is to buy Xbox points for the first time ever so I can buy Alaska.Mods can delete this thread now

Didn't know it was a select few,thanks Keven.Bad news will have to wait for Alaska so.Even if I got the Maule I would be happy.

Have sent MS an email saying I didn't receive my email with codes for free DLC yet.Have searched my spam so defo have not received the email with activation codes.Still waiting on reply as theres no way im paying for the DLC when the previous email said I was getting it for free.Hopefully just an oversight on MS side,really want the Hawaiian Adventure Pack and Maule.They can keep the P-51 lol.BTW I never broke my NDA I signed not like a few members on here.

Yes,depends how much you want to overclock it.You could gain between 6-12 fps with a decent overclock.

Great to hear Ark.Are you using vsync?Have overclocked by gpu today and am getting about 5-10 fps increase.

You will love it,few of my friends have the 27'' it's a fantastic monitor.Enjoy Kiwimail.

Very well written Viper.Within a couple of weeks I can see this forum blossoming with talk of DLC,helpful tips to newcomers and trobleshooting/performance threads.Seems to be a lot of people young and old,veterans and virgins who are embracing Flight in this Forum now.I think we all want the same thing in the end, for Flight to grow into something enjoyable for simmers and gamers alike.Think there has been enough heated and over the top discussions pre release.Again thanks Viper,hope everyone reads your post.

LOL no harm in dreaming that we're getting jets soon,we live in hope.