will you get ms flight

[Slotback]

I will install it. See whether I can mess with the files a bit and put MS Flight aircraft, effects, and gauges into FSX. Do a few missions.

But I don't intend on keeping it long unless the quality of expansions are high or if they don't allow 3rd party development.

[drtomkat]

i will get the free download, but i know too little to say i will buy. i need to know more about scenery and planes.

[Boikat]

Boikat's=

Anything past that depends on how much MS is going to charge for scenery and aircraft addons,

ok ,that's something I didn't know darn ignorance! :-?

are you guys saying that the game will be some kind of freeware download and then people would start like a puzzle buy the airplanes and scenery ,that it will not come in a box like FSx/FS9/ etc?

[Fozzer]

[quote]

Yup, no box, and the only source for aircraft and scenery is going to be through MS.

[Hagar]

[quote]Yup, no box, and the only source for aircraft and scenery is going to be through MS.

[jetprop]

Boikat's=

Anything past that depends on how much MS is going to charge for scenery and aircraft addons,

ok ,that's something I didn't know darn ignorance! :-?

are you guys saying that the game will be some kind of freeware download and then people would start like a puzzle buy the airplanes and scenery ,that it will not come in a box like FSx/FS9/ etc?

[machineman9]

If I understood it correctly the original idea was to have Approved Developers who will pay Microsoft for the privilege of creating their own addons. Providing they pass some sort of quality testing these 3rd party addons would then be available for download only via the Window Live! marketplace. I don't know how practical this will be or how many existing FS developers will apply for approval.

As with everything about Flight, that is quite contraversial...

It would mean a lot fewer planes, but the few planes we do get would be of higher quality. More of less versus less of more.

Surely they could charge for the plane on the marketplace, so the developer would be paid for their efforts. I believe XNA developers had to pay to sell their game on LIVE, but then they could charge for their game to be downloaded.



Time will tell.

[pirate21213]

[quote][quote]Yup, no box, and the only source for aircraft and scenery is going to be through MS.

[pete]

It's already been stated clearly what it is, how it is presented (downloaded) and what will be available. Why all the speculation?

[pirate21213]

Why all the speculation?

Mostly dreams not speculation....

[corcor123]

Why all the speculation?

Mostly dreams not speculation....

He he. Merp

[New Light]

I'm not going to bother with Flight for several years, if ever. Not after all of the time, effort, resources, pain and suffering I (we) went through to get FSX to finally work. I probably sunk $1,500 in programs alone, not to mention, the seven computers I went through before I found one that would run FSX. I think I'm set for quite awhile... I might think about Flight III, or whatever they're going to call it in 2022.

Dave

[jetprop]

I'm not going to bother with Flight for several years, if ever. Not after all of the time, effort, resources, pain and suffering I (we) went through to get FSX to finally work. I probably sunk $1,500 in programs alone, not to mention, the seven computers I went through before I found one that would run FSX. I think I'm set for quite awhile... I might think about Flight III, or whatever they're going to call it in 2022.

Dave

why did you spend that much on a computer that runs FSX?
we spent 300-500(don't know anymore) on the computer,the rest is all freeware...
well,ok,i run it at 5-10 FPS but there isn't much visual difference between 8 and 30 fps IMHO...

[Steve M]

I'm not going to bother with Flight for several years, if ever. Not after all of the time, effort, resources, pain and suffering I (we) went through to get FSX to finally work. I probably sunk $1,500 in programs alone, not to mention, the seven computers I went through before I found one that would run FSX. I think I'm set for quite awhile... I might think about Flight III, or whatever they're going to call it in 2022.

Dave

why did you spend that much on a computer that runs FSX?
we spent 300-500(don't know anymore) on the computer,the rest is all freeware...
well,ok,i run it at 5-10 FPS but there isn't much visual difference between 8 and 30 fps IMHO...

A bit off the topic but the human eye is only capable of computing about 26 frames per second. A dogs eyes can run at nearly twice that rate, making them more capable at catching a ball than we are~
  More to the subject, FSX cost me more than 3 grand if I add it all up from day one, partially because I didn't know what I was doing. Now FSX is still costing me money because I think I know what I'm doing.   8-) 

[jetprop]

ok i have to admit:i am a freeware junkie.