Article: Microsoft Cancels Flight

[Nels_Anderson]

You can view the page at http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/conten...Cancels-Flight

[nospambob]

Loss of support for any aviation interest is regrettable. But thanks to you and the flight sim community, flight simulator will survive just fine without Microsoft.

[jfmitch]

How in the heck could Microsoft continue with Flight Simulator? They sold the rights to Lockheed. Ever hear of Prepar3D?

Jim

[Nels_Anderson]

How in the heck could Microsoft continue with Flight Simulator? They sold the rights to Lockheed. Ever hear of Prepar3D?

Jim

That would not prevent them from developing entirely new flight simulation software. Don't forget also, that Prepar3d is limited to use only for actual training. Microsoft did not allow Lockheed to develop a sim for entertainment purposes.

[luisalicea]

From my understanding they MS sold the rights to ESP not FSX. ESP was their commercial version. I'm not totally sure how that affects any future development for FSX (if any). P3D has always said their product was not going to be targeting the entertainment/gaming community which to me, leaves open an opportunity for FSX future development. Again, I never heard that MS sold off the rights to FSX just ESP, please correct me if I'm wrong here.

[ians]

I don't think it was down to anything else but not being competitive and therefore not making profit, MS posted its first losses ever recently, F Sim not being a real core activity would have been shelved asap after a setback like that and seeing that they have competition in the shape of Prepar3d they dropped the baton and left the race as I think in their eyes it was the end of the road (well we are almost at the Olympics and the analogy was a good one methinks!). Its sad that FSXIV wont be made but we still have FSX and developers understand what it can and cant do so we can be happy that things will go as far as they can until another version that reflects the state of the technology will be created, then we will all be after that version and addons. it is sad though, but like CSI Miami - all good things come to an end.

[deltaleader]

no surprises here. It was a failed project out the gate.

[btwallis]

Tried it for one week, knew it was doomed, dropped it and never went back, as waste of time and money and it looks like I was similar to the overall the market forces. Now back to my FSX, P3D and X-Plane 10.

[Foxtrot789]

Tried it for one week, knew it was doomed, dropped it and never went back, as waste of time and money and it looks like I was similar to the overall the market forces. Now back to my FSX, P3D and X-Plane 10.

I was a beta tester and tried it for one HOUR... It was a terrible idea and while I do sympathize for those that lost their jobs; I smile at the tiny companies that held their ground and continued to produce quality FSX products despite 'Flights' giant backer.

[andyjohnston]

You weren't much of a beta tester if you tried it for an hour.

Flight was actually not a terrible product, for what it was. But what people wanted was a new FlightSim, with all that entailed, and since Flight didn't deliver that, many people turned up their noses.

What are we to do now? FSX is ancient, P3D is not geared toward a wide market, and XPX is aweful.