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Re: Microsoft's Flight, the end of an era?
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2012, 11:26:14 am »

Oh yes. We sold Angripig's soul :D
That much?!? :o ;D

I saw the reactions on Aerosoft, of course Mathijs isn't very happy with Flight:
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And somebody named 'Dahls' is defending Outerra:
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Theo ;)
http://www.flightsim.com/main/notams12/flig0104.htm
-if you can use a mouse, you can fly !- proof it's going to be arcade. And they removed simulator from the title because it won't be a simulator at all.
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Re: Microsoft's Flight, the end of an era?
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2012, 01:30:36 pm »

At least, they were honest in the first place; with closing down Aces, they said, we stop producing Sim's.
And they did.

Theo :-\
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Re: Microsoft's Flight, the end of an era?
« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2012, 07:59:37 pm »

I played a beta. Looking at testers opinions i can say only one - that's not continuation of old FS. It's something between simulator and arcade. And if they will continue their policy from AOE: Online, it will be a very expensive game... if someone will want to have something more than 2 airplanes and 1 area.  :P

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Re: Microsoft's Flight, the end of an era?
« Reply #18 on: February 28, 2012, 08:15:17 pm »

To continue the FSX fun get yourself a developer licence for Prepar3d from Lockheed Martin. $10 a month for 2 client licences. Maybe it could fill the gap until we have Outerra in all its flight sim glory :)
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Re: Microsoft's Flight, the end of an era?
« Reply #19 on: February 29, 2012, 08:18:50 am »

Prepar3d is awesome !! I just watched it. Only problem is the cost. I'd prefer to buy for 500 $ instead of a monthly fee of 10 $ sincerely. But 500 $ is too much anyway.
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Re: Microsoft's Flight, the end of an era?
« Reply #20 on: February 29, 2012, 08:20:56 am »

Yeah, the price is steep and I believe that one of the terms of the licence is its NOT for gaming. It seems they are developing it more for commercial sim applications. I guess that was they deal they made with Microsoft for the fsx code base.
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Re: Microsoft's Flight, the end of an era?
« Reply #21 on: February 29, 2012, 08:21:27 am »

I'd prefer to buy a hotas warthog at 500 $ instead of prepar3d.
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Re: Microsoft's Flight, the end of an era?
« Reply #22 on: February 29, 2012, 08:28:58 am »

Thats a nice stick! A toss up between that and the older cougar. Shame the throttles don't appear to be interchangeable. Then you would be set whatever DCS do next :)
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Re: Microsoft's Flight, the end of an era?
« Reply #23 on: March 01, 2012, 01:51:36 pm »

I have X-Plane 9 and I am getting XP10 ASAP. Its WAAAY better then FSX in sooo many ways. And now that MS dropped the ball big time on this, X-Plane is going to push ahead even further. Whom ever is running MS right now is a real dummy. They obviously do not know marketing very good. If they would just take a look at their competition they would see they are getting shoved out of the gaming world. In fact, MS needs to focus more on their developer tools and less on games since they obviously cannot cut it with the big boys.  ;)
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