Place your bets..

[Steve M]

I am thinking MS will release Flight in the spring of 2012. I would rather see them do the professional thing and wait untill it is finetuned. I'm going out on a limb here but my bet is Feb of 2012.. :-/

(not excatly spring but close)

[BrandonF]

I agree, that was the release time I would have guessed, too.

[F35LightningII]

Yeah I agree with you guys.

[patchz]

Based on their history, I think they will release it before all the bugs are ironed out, hence Christmas 2011.

[Steve M]

Based on their history, I think they will release it before all the bugs are ironed out, hence Christmas 2011.

I'll bet that is thier tenative schedule, at the moment. I'd like to know what kind of budget they have to work with. There is always a budget, or some form of cost projection at the start of most projects. 

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[Spindrift]

I'd be pretty surprised if it came out early 2012, I  was thinking holiday 2012 if not early 2013. I hope your all right of course, the earlier the better! I've just uninstalled FSX for I think the 50th and last time. Out with the old, in with the NEW. I too hope they have taken the time to "iron out the bugs"... lets get what we pay for this time! 

[Strategic Retreat]

I would rather see them do the professional thing and wait until it is finetuned.

You DO know that's NEVER happened before, correct? :-?

[tcco94]

It will never be perfect...but I doubt that it will be released in 2011.

But according to IGN it says TBA 2011 so who knows I could be wrong but I think it if it was to be released 2011 it wouldn't be as good as taking more time.  And they didn't give us any teasers for this month either...

[New Light]

[BrandonF]

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[New Light]

"Someone" thinks he is not being at all too harsh and that we are still in the FSX days. "Someone" hopes you're right though

[Steve M]

Ha, I love to read all these replies. It will be fun to reread later and see if anyone was close. I agree with most here in that corporate pressure will force the design team to release the sim too soon. I should say, 'Flight', rather than sim.            ;)                     
                               

[Strategic Retreat]

I think someone is being a little too harsh (and actually pretty unrealistic) and stuck in FSX days. Just because ACES made one mistake in the over 28 years of the MSFS series with FSX, why would the next version automatically be a failure? No, that doesn't make sense at all. MS has clearly seen their FSX mistakes and I do not see them making the same ones as of yet.

One mistake? :-?

So you reckon that FS2000 was a mistake... and the first release (pre-patch) of FS9 and FSX as a whole not? ::)

And as you can see, I'm not going further back in time, where we could find something else as interesting, if not more, like the many problems of FS5 and maybe even more.

Interesting point of view, yours... one that has no relation to reality, but interesting. You should try your hand in writing Sci-Fi.

What Dave was trying to depict, and sadly I quite agree with him, is the most plausible path M$ will follow in the marketing of Flight. A path that follows the grim money-squeezing one used for FSX. :-/

May I remind you for last that ACES had hand only with the failure of FSX as an application and that the marketing was instead in the hand of the headquarters?

What will happen of Flight... at the moment is difficult to say, but... well, I am not ashamed to admit to be among those who think that the dropping of all the pretenses of it being any kind of simulator is quite ominous. Only time will be able to tell though. I for one am preparing myself to another failure, so in the [honestly hoped for] case it will a good program, I'll have a nice surprise and an even better time... and if [sadly] will really be a failure... I hope it will smart less than what happened with FSX. :-X

For sure this time around I'll take my sweet time letting OTHERS check the... I would like to call it sim, but... as I was saying, I'll take my sweet time letting others check the program out, before even thinking about buying it... and I'll buy it only if worthy of my money.

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Ha, I love to read all these replies. It will be fun to reread later and see if anyone was close. I agree with most here in that corporate pressure will force the design team to release the sim too soon. I should say, 'Flight', rather than sim.

[Boikat]

I'll go with the late 2011 date.  But, no matter how well it performs, how detailed, or realistic (as far as a PC can be "realistic"), being a Microsoft product, some people will still say it's crappy, buggy, or not realistic enough.  Waiting until it would be considered "perfected" to satisfy the nit-pickers could take years, or decades.