Friday 2010-07-23 Dev. update and Discussions

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

That's exactly what they said and still say about the Falcon-Team.

Fact is, though, it was closed because it could not make enough money to support the expensive team. And as with Falcon, it was closed to be reopened, whenever suitable. But as you know so much about business: If you close something now to reopen it later, you will lose a lot against companies that even with a small team continue to produce, grow, gather experience and of course make themselves and their products renown. And then we're back at where we started: At the very heart of competition..

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.