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Originally Posted by zapatista
your off on your own tangent there, i never mentioned falcon and it has nothing to do with what we were discussing
for microsoft it is easy, and good business practice at he moment, to put some non priority projects back on the shelf and cut the money it spends on them during "the economic crisis". its also very easy for them to revive it later should they choose to. ms flightsim still has a lot of legs in it, since only the latest hardware can at long last run fs-x fluidly with decent scenery on a high resolution, so it is not as if an imminent upgrade was/is needed.
as oleg supporters all we can hope for is that his project is a success, and that many 3e party flightsim software developers who initially made programs for ms will transition to his flightsim during that hiatus.
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Of course MS-Flightsim has still a large market-value
it's just been quit!
But when BoB will be released and DCS offers more SDKs, these "lots of legs" can easily stumble and fall. This position is far from save and sound DUE to competition.
No matter what you call it, hybernation, dead, whatever - the longer the studio is closed and the competition still produces the lower the chances it can be revived.
Again exactly these arguments have been used by Falcon-fans for years, as well as for good old Janes simulations. Especially the last comment with the hardware needed to play it fluently. Looks like copy'n'pasted right from Frugals-World