Choose your planes?

[Keep It Simple]

Registering may or may not involve payment.

It won't include a credit card because all purchases will be done on the Windows Live Marketplace so you will pay with Microsoft Points.

[silverserpent]

Microsoft points are the currency that we use on Xbox Live to purchase stuff like game add-ons, stuff for our avatars, etc.. but it does involve using your credit card to purchase the points or you can go to places like walmart, gamestop, etc.. and purchase MS points cards.

[Zaku]

Registering may or may not involve payment.

Xbox/Games for Windows Live accounts are free and don't require MS having a credit card on file.

[silverserpent]

sorry about that. i didn't mean to sound aggressive.

[SamYeager]

i hope MS flight is good, but from what i've heard so far its going to be a shitty arcade game, and not a sim

I think Flight will be more than just an "arcade game". In a lot of ways it is likely to resemble Aerofly, at least initially, in that there will be a restricted flying area and no airliners.

The rest of the Hawaii islands and a Vans RV-6A as well as a Maule M7 can be purchased with MS points.

I fully expect other flying areas to be available for purchase later. No idea whether airliners will become available although I wouldn't be surprised if they, eventually, appear.

Whether Flight will be "good" will be something for you to decide after the release. Considering the large number of people who are already split between FS9. FSX and X-Plane I expect there will be several people who will dislike Flight and several people who will enjoy Flight.

[Keep It Simple]

Microsoft points are the currency that we use on Xbox Live to purchase stuff like game add-ons, stuff for our avatars, etc.. but it does involve using your credit card to purchase the points or you can go to places like walmart, gamestop, etc.. and purchase MS points cards.

[Wing Nut]

No, it is correct that the reason for points is to make it less like spending money.  It's easier to spend 200 points than it is $50 and if some kid goes to his parents and says I need 500 points for a game and the parent doesn't catch how much money that is, well so much the better for MS.

Just another way MS rips people off...

[Keep It Simple]

Are MS point cards now given to gamers as gifts like any other "gift card"? If so, what a business racket is is even though it's legal.
Gamers are spending money at MS even though

[Jetranger]

Gesshhh, I'll be sticking with FSX Gold acceleration edition, after I decided to drop a few hefty bucks for a really decent video graphics card and upgraded my RAM from 6 GB to 16 GB and I already had a Quadcore processor, I just had to upgrade the POWER SUPPLY for the new Graphics Card to work properly, with all that and the amount of add on's available for FSX from all the vendors out there from scenery to aircraft - FSX Gold Acceleration in my computer works really superb , I'll be keeping it for quite a while ! http://www.youtube.com/user/IFLYWINGS?feature=mhee

[andy190]

Well some people think Microsoft Points are easier to use than a credit card because you don't have to always put in your pin.

But I don

[SamYeager]

[quote]But I don

[andy190]

Well if you can't fly around the entire earth out of the box it's not a simulator is it?

[jetprop]

And what will happen if you go to the edge of an area?
Will you teleport to the other side?
Will you stop moving in that direction?
Will there be an endless ocean?
Will there be ANYTHING at all!?

[Groundbound1]

[quote][quote]But I don

[Ang2dogs]

And what will happen if you go to the edge of an area?
Will you teleport to the other side?
Will you stop moving in that direction?
Will there be an endless ocean?
Will there be ANYTHING at all!?

Tune in next week, same sim time, same sim channel ;D