BREAKING NEWS APRIL 23rd 2018 - announcement Bulletin
Dovetail Ceases Flight Sim World Development
LINK : https://www.airdailyx.net/article/dovetail-ceases-flight-sim-world-development/
In a rather shocking announcement on the Steam website, Dovetail Games has announced that they’ll be discontinuing development of their Flight Sim World title and removing it from the Steam store in the near future. It was only around a year ago that the developer released the program in early access, bringing the original Microsoft ESP code to a 64-bit environment and promising active development and new features to the aging program. While Flight Sim World never gained the following that Flight Simulator X, Prepar3D or X-Plane gathered, it was a young program and many people were excited for its continued development, including the further development of the new career mode and the eventual implementation of jet aircraft and more third-party products. Unfortunately, it appears that neither of those will come to fruition.
According to Dovetail’s post, they don’t see a “clear direction that allow [them] to keep to the development timeline [they’d] want,” also citing the player numbers they’d need (and apparently don’t have) as a factor in ending development. For those who have purchased and enjoyed Flight Sim World, the program will not disappear from your library. However, there will be no further updates or development from Dovetail, and at least for the foreseeable future Flight Sim World will remain in it’s current status and version. For those of you who do not currently own the simulator, it will remain on the Steam store until May 24, when it will be removed from the Steam store and unavailable for purchase indefinitely. Third party addons share the same status; if they’re owned, they will remain available to users. If they are not purchased, they will be removed from the Steam store and remain unavailable.