joandreas

I'm hoping that if/when the new owners announce anything this week, that they aren't simply going to say, 'Yeah, we bought it', but expand more vividly on what their goals are with the platform and the timelines to achieve those goals.  I also hope they come prepped to address key themes that get slung about these forms on a daily basis:

 

64 bit

backward compatibility

3rd party development

open architecure

 

They should address and dispell from their business model absolute failed ideas in the flightsim world, like DLC.  Just because they have bought the MSFlight licence doesn't necessarily mean they intend to follow the same business model as MS had proposed with Flight.  If they do intend to follow the DLC route, and skim the cream from developer's profits, then they may as well have tipped a truckload of cash down the biggest toilet imaginable.  If the new owner is Aerosoft, I doubt they would do something that foolish.

 

Microsoft flight is not backward compitable and i doubt it will be.

Maybe PMDG won't have to worry about P3D/LM licensing issues after all. 

 

http://forum.avsim.net/page/index.html/_/pri-news/microsoft-sells-license-to-fs-franchise-r2295

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/444026-microsoft-sells-license-to-fs-franchise/

 

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Does not fix anything yet.

Guessing best wait a week until plan for it is known.

It seems silly that USA is 'boxed' only wherehas UK /Europe included downloads as well.

 

Not sure what they hope to achieve with that strategy.

Might be a deal with pmdg on where downloaded can be sold

Well you can risk it will be a x-plane 11 before release.

but i think 10.35 is minimum out before pmdg have made a plane.

off corse hope that xpx and xp 11 is not as worse as fs9 fsx as when developers stop making for older version.

Well not guessing it will be before oct-dec anyway at best.

Guessing heathrow, copenhagen, maybe garderoen is needed.

Will guess sale number will not show ixeg in that statistic, or how it will affect x plane vatsim traffic.

I think there are multiple problems with the MD-11--first, that the programming team that built it (Bill Grabowski et al) may no longer be with PMDG...if you remember, Bill started coding the MD-11 project independently, and then PMDG took it on and rounded things out with the talent on their team.  I also believe that PMDG, with what they've learned through multiple dev cycles for FSX including the 747X, NGX and 777, have built some common in-house development processes that would likely require a complete re-write of the MD-11 to make it fit inside their production model.  So given that the fast-disappearing MD-11 is not an especially popular plane, and that it probably would require PMDG to "rebuild Rome" to produce anything like what we have come to expect from their recent add-ons, personally I won't be holding my breath on anything beyond what we already have with the MD-11.

 

Regards

Well i guess flightfactor will not want develop one. Not a popular plane enough. same for nearly every other developer.

Since nearly every x plane aircraft by those good developer is better than fsx based counterpart.

Well can be IXEG release for those features, but i doubt it is that they are waiting for.

But i guess there is certain data like thrust parameters wanted.

Well still some months until release i guess. Have not heard how it will be released so.

Upon second thought you know what I would love to see... a mad dog!  Maybe the MD80 or MD90.  That would be sweet.

Already one in development so i doubt.

If they're taking requests (which I doubt), an ATR 72-500 please with realistic systems.  B)

keeping it above Mcphat wil be hard. 

Can it even be confirmed or denied for x plane.