MS Announces New Flight!

[JBaymore]

If the Aerosoft payware that I own is any indication of the quality they will put out ....... then their sim likely will be a bit better than Microsoft's will be. 

However..... again... nothing to really go by.

best,

...............john

[Flying Mouse]

[quote]I suspect that the word "sim" has been drpoped purely for marketing reasons.

The general public equates a "sim" as boring, difficult to master and only for the hard core.

I have been told by a few people who have bought MSFS in the past that It is boring and they found it impossible
to land a plane etc.

We all know that is not true of couse and now MS wants

[Fr. Bill]

[quote]Actual quotes get more scruitiny in the publishing world.

[BrandonF]

Since I first posted in the beginning, I have changed my opinion.

Based on my reading, Microsoft Flight appears to have been in development for about 18 months now. Microsoft is officially announcing it now as a Beta version will soon undergo internal testing. Add-on development is supposed to be easier than ever, showing that 3rd party developers may benefit from Flight being released. Performance is the #1 goal in Flight and has been since day one of the project.

My final opinion is that MS Flight will be better than FSX, with more realism and better performance. Online flying is focused on much more than in FSX. Flight will not be a little flying game. It should be a simulator. We should look forward to it. (But still not get our hopes up too much.)

My post is based on reading many blog entries and forum posts with people giving inside information they are getting from someone on the Flight Team. My info may not be accurate, but I feel that the people who are being negative about MS Flight should stop and just wait. At the moment, we don't know much more of the big details other than that it has been announced and it's a flight simulator. Give it a chance. It may end up being great.

8-)

[ShaneG_old]

Since I first posted in the beginning, I have changed my opinion.

Based on my reading....

My post is based on reading many blog entries and forum posts with people giving inside information they are getting from someone on the Flight Team.

My info may not be accurate...

Sources, or it never happened. 

Without sources, everything posted in this thread is to be considered speculation, and personal opinion.

No exceptions.   ;)

Even if Bill Gates himself came in here saying he "read it somewhere",
I'd say he was full of crap if he didn't post his source. 

[alrot]

this whole this is confusing ,I only wish one thing ,MS think above all in the designers roll ,the series MSFS has been succeeded because of the independent designers around the world ,so make things easy for them..
remember the serie MSFS was ,A simulator ,a game ,and a game of design.. 

[SeanTK]

Going off of what Shane mentioned above, we have to be wary of people that claim to know "insider info" but "cannot recall/release their sources". Many times, people will say this simply to draw attention to themselves and act as if they are extremely important and should be upheld as a valued asset (granted...with no substance).

There is absolutely no purpose to people stating "I know X,Y,Z about this project because I am so well connected, but I can't give you any details to back that up."

At the very least, it's a tease, and at the worst, it's being an "attention whore". If you have information to share about FSX, back it up with factual evidence. Teasing users here and elsewhere with claims of insider knowledge is not beneficial in any way. The only reason for teasing us with "facts and hints" from an "insider that you can't mention" is to stroke an ego.

[Theis]

I know nothing.. And that's a fact!

[Groundbound1]

Going off of what Shane mentioned above, we have to be wary of people that claim to know "insider info" but "cannot recall/release their sources". Many times, people will say this simply to draw attention to themselves and act as if they are extremely important and should be upheld as a valued asset (granted...with no substance).

There is absolutely no purpose to people stating "I know X,Y,Z about this project because I am so well connected, but I can't give you any details to back that up."

At the very least, it's a tease, and at the worst, it's being an "attention whore". If you have information to share about FSX, back it up with factual evidence. Teasing users here and elsewhere with claims of insider knowledge is not beneficial in any way. The only reason for teasing us with "facts and hints" from an "insider that you can't mention" is to stroke an ego.

+1

Just like alot of things, those that really know can't say, and those that say really don't know.

[BrandonF]

Jeez! Why do I even post anything?  My point is: The people being so negative about Flight should stop. We don't know many details at all. If you have anything bad to say, I assume you guys could make a better flight simulator? 

[Keep It Simple]

[quote]Jeez! Why do I even post anything?

[ShaneG_old]

[quote]Jeez! Why do I even post anything?

[Keep It Simple]

Are you the opinion police now?

That appears to be your job now.

[ShaneG_old]

Are you the opinion police now?

That appears to be your job now.

[Theis]

Guys, guys.. Take a chill pill and relax!

Why all this speculation and accusing, and instead wait for it to be released??

Cheer up, be friendly, and have a laugh with each other, instead of all this unhappy, un-SimV like mood, like I know it..