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Old 01-24-2009, 02:43 AM
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This really is not a good thing. On several levels.

First off, a whole lot of folks just lost their jobs. Nearmiss's drivel aside, this is never a good thing. Microsoft didn't just do some pruning of "bad" employees, they axed an entire studio, and all their contract workers. Loosing one's job is not pretty, and my sympathies go out to those people.

Secondly, the flight sim genre is simply too small to be able to absorb the loss of a true giant of the type like MS is. Like it or not MSFS is the largest selling, longest running flight sim product ever. It's easy to say YAY!!!! Oleg now has no competition!!! However, the reality is that any other publisher out there that is involved with or is contemplating involvement in the flight simulation genre is now going to take a second look at continuing, because if the largest seller is calling it quits, well, if I have to explain it you don't have a grasp of the economy.

This is a dire development, for all of us.
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