Microsoft Flight cancelled now?

[benEggleston16]

"Go Lockheed Martin Go" - Mathijs Kok (today)

+1 Jon venema
At least Aerosoft's addons are two-way compatible in one purchase, ORBX want you to buy their's twice

[avoidz]

Flight = Loss of Strategic Vision

As far as I can see somewhere along the line Microsoft seems to have lost the true stratigic vision and raison d'etre for the Flight Simulator Franchise. Truthfully, it was never any real "revenue generator" of any type, but it was a terrific "Goodwill/Loyalty Generator" for Microsoft as a whole...

As many will recall, FS was at one time the "semi-official measuring stick" by which true "IBM compatibility" of hardware was judged. When that eventually became irrelevant, it still remained as a very valuable asset vis-a-vis attracting and maintaining MS brand loyalty among many of the IT movers and shakers in the industry, as well as their end users.

Unfortunately for Microsoft, these days they've managed to throughly disappoint and discourage many of their long time supporters because of their serious and sequential failures to satisfy expectations.

This is a very good post, and I completely agree. Microsoft has changed for the worse since Gates left the top job and Ballmer et al took over. They are completely driven by money and don't seem to care much for making good product and building loyalty with users. It's a sorry state of affairs.

[JSkorna]

They should just open it up to 3rd party developers now that they've stopped further development.

Not going to happen.

[rss0900]

AND justice has been done. enough said, I will sleep well tonight.

[captdennison]

Only proves that Greed was all that mattered for Microsoft.
I feel sorry for to tose who bought addons, they are now going to be stuck with a pretty worthless bunch of stuff. I never bought XPlane-but it seems the NEW version basically messed it up for those with older versions, and the new version-although it has a few nice details, is a JOKE--I still fly FS9, mainly because I dont have the money for that new super-fast computer needed for FSX--I own FSX, and someday will be able to enjoy it on a new computer-But I still like FS9-its a shame so many people have stopped making addon scenery of any worth for FS9, and it seems we are now just looking at endless repaints, for both FS9 and FSX--a lot of the homemade FSX scenery is junk--and home-built FS9 is becoming harder to find.

[MdMax]

I never bought XPlane-but it seems the NEW version basically messed it up for those with older versions, and the new version-although it has a few nice details, is a JOKE--I still fly FS9, mainly because I dont have the money for that new super-fast computer needed for FSX--

X-Plane 10 is all but a joke, and I'm able to use every add-on I bought for version 9. Seriously testing yourself a free demo is better than reading what forum trolls have to say. Of course, every new program or version brings some issues, but the situation is a lot better than with FSX beta 2 (called "SP2"). I also don't have a super-fast computer able to run FSX.

[HarryCYUL]

Not only that Greg, but my FS 2004 installation still works and looks as good as ever. Imagine that!!

mine too, my fs9 plus $1000 in addons looks amazing and runs at a nice 60+fps.

[Spag-oz]

Just reading all these posts reminds me of the reaction dedicated flight simmers had when EA dumped Janes sims way back when. I had purchased all of the Janes software from USAF to F18 and like many other simmers was eagerly awaiting release of A10 the ultimate mud mover. When it was about ready to go beta EA pulled the pin and all the staff were given the flick. The fact was that regardless of our love for flight sims EA (and now MS) concluded that the market was limited and not the cash cow they were hoping for. Money talks doesn't it.

I was only recently about to have a squiz at Flight but it looks like I will continue my love affair with FSX. I may be odd, but with FSX I restrict my flying to civil aircraft as I prefer to leave the military hardware to dedicated programmes. Maybe I'm just getting mellow in my old age.

[ocseong818]

FSX beta 2 (called "SP2")

Why you always call FSX is beta 2 but you never call x-plane beta...? So you think xp10 is a finished product?

[n4gix]

It's called "prejudice," nothing more nor less...