MS Announces New Flight!

[Travis]

Wow.

Wasn't expecting this when I dropped by . . . but good to see that MS is finally dusting off the series to get it working.

Of course, like everyone else here, I'm filled with mixed feelings on the matter.

One of the important things that I think has been noted seems to be the naming of the thing.

[f-35simpilot]

has everyone forgot that MS. Sold the term "Flight Simulator" to Aerosoft or someone when they shut down that division (i am looking for the article), would that be the reason it is not called flight simulator 11???

[fleetwood77]

Any speculation this might be a browser based platform like they did with PGATOUR.com
h**p://www.pgatour.com/players/00/87/93/

[SeanTK]

This program will NOT be browser based. That has already been confirmed by Microsoft. Read the FAQ on the Flight website. It will be a program for PCs...(not Xbox either).

[BrandonF]

has everyone forgot that MS. Sold the term "Flight Simulator" to Aerosoft or someone when they shut down that division (i am looking for the article), would that be the reason it is not called flight simulator 11???

They didn't sell the Flight Simulator name to Aerosoft. It's not called FS11 because it's separate from the original FS series. Flight is meant to replace it. They simply removed "Simulator" to give some distinction between the old series and the new sim. Also, FSX was such a wreck that the FS series had a bad name. They sure didn't want people to think this would be another FSX.

8-)

[SeanTK]

Head's up, they changed the wording in a portion of the FAQ section that is pretty important!

Q: How does Games for Windows

[BrandonF]

They also changed:

Q: What is "Microsoft Flight?"

A: "Microsoft Flight" is a new PC game from Microsoft Game Studios. The new title will be available on the Games for Windows

[JBaymore]

As always... anything said is all speculation based on the minimal information that parsing of the official press releases provides.  And that ain't much.

Reading between the lines, it sounds to me like Micro$oft is likely planning on controlling the add-ons, so that they get at least a piece of the action on most if not all stuff involved in the new sim. 

".....integrated content marketplace......" sounds like it will focus on payware add-ons only, and only those offered thru that venue will maybe be available to work with the new sim.  They'll probably have a few "teaser" freebies... but I bet most of the content will be payware based.

If they allow freeware development to go on the download site, it sounds like they will still want to put their "stamp of approval" on it.  Which might eliminate stuff like real airline repaints (due to licensing issues) and other such stuff.

[i]".....available on the Games for Windows

[Mr._Ryan]

[quote][quote]If I understood correctly, they are going to incorporate Maya as their 3D modeling application.

[alrot]

[quote]
[b][color=#000000]If they allow freeware development to go on the download site, it sounds like they will still want to put their "stamp of approval" on it.

[BrandonF]

[quote]As always... anything said is all speculation based on the minimal information that parsing of the official press releases provides.

[Travis]

Don't get too angry yet, Alrot.  There is still the possibility of the upload/download system having alternatives . . . ah, who am I kidding?  With the way MS does things, it wouldn't surprise me a bit to find that they just took the easy route and eliminated all but the payware developers.

If anyone at Microsoft is paying attention to this website AT ALL: you will lose a large percentage of your clientele if freeware design is eliminated.

[Boikat]

[quote]Don't get too angry yet, Alrot.

[JBaymore]

This could also be considered speculation.

And you completly missed actually reading the first and second sentence I wrote in that posing exactly HOW?

[alrot]

[quote][quote]Don't get too angry yet, Alrot.