Microsoft not out of the flight sim game after all...

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Flyby

MS did close it's flight sim department some time ago, iirc. So jumping back in must be in the accountants' realm of practicality.

yeah .. but that old lot were wasting time and money trying to build an actual simulator, whereas what Accounts and Marketing wanted was superficial and pretty and runnable on any generic PC with built in graphics (you know like magic School Bus with wings). They just had to go

[nearmiss]

No sense to get any excitement until something happens. One thing is sure, MSFT will keep you informed. MSFT will promote the wazoo out of it as soon as they have more to tell.

wow looks really good and they are already on the marketing trail, I imagine this will be on the shelves sooner than we think.

[Immermann]

The pile of crap that is FSX makes me not want to buy this (for one thing, try to fly knife edge with the Extra). A promo video rarely says anything about the real game.

[322Sqn_Dusty]

Ever flown MSCFS on Lan? We tried to fly it because of the Spitfires at that time. All of us were flying over Normandy, some in nice clear weather, one flew next to us, but flew in hail and thunder others flew between mountains just 20mtr apart of us. We even saw players in thin air.. only prop and pilot whizzing by (stealth?). Same for the 'FS' series. All flying over Leeuwarden the Netherlands and half over the mountains (!), I'm not even mentioning the 'crates' sinking in the concrete runways.

[FAE_Cazador]

I use Mozilla Firefox, and every time I've tried to open the video from that website, XP insists in installing Windows Media Player 10 to watch it, in spite of having both VideoLan and KMPlayer media players installed (and not WMP10 indeed).

In my opinion, such M-S's persistant policy of forcing me to use their products would be alone a good reason to not to purchase such "Flight" thing, whatever it is.

I had enough flying CFS1 years ago (my first online Sim), then enjoying CFS2 (the best at that time, IMHO, till savage modding spreaded on line) and being disappointed with CFS3

Fortunately, we have IL2 and will have SOW. Who needs another M-S Flying crap?

[julian265]

Originally Posted by FAE_Cazador

In my opinion, such M-S's persistant policy of forcing me to use their products would be alone a good reason to not to purchase such "Flight" thing, whatever it is.

I used a downloader (either downthemall or download helper) to bring in the wmv file, as it was un-watchable for me whilst been streamed. I could then open it in another player.

[Meusli]

Originally Posted by FAE_Cazador

I use Mozilla Firefox, and every time I've tried to open the video from that website, XP insists in installing Windows Media Player 10 to watch it, in spite of having both VideoLan and KMPlayer media players installed (and not WMP10 indeed).

In my opinion, such M-S's persistant policy of forcing me to use their products would be alone a good reason to not to purchase such "Flight" thing, whatever it is.

I had enough flying CFS1 years ago (my first online Sim), then enjoying CFS2 (the best at that time, IMHO, till savage modding spreaded on line) and being disappointed with CFS3

Fortunately, we have IL2 and will have SOW. Who needs another M-S Flying crap?

Not sure, but you might need silverlight as well.

[proton45]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

wow looks really good and they are already on the marketing trail, I imagine this will be on the shelves sooner than we think.

Is a web site the only thing you need to become a "true believer" ? Maybe I have been following the sim world for too long, but I need more information about the game to get my hopes up... I'm disappointed Tree...

Originally Posted by artjunky

Cazador,

It's just sort of silly now that it's been 5-6 years since talk of bob started.

Frankly, I don't care all that much when it comes out. It would just be nice if I had a date so I don't have to keep coming back here all the time just to make sure I didn't, somehow, miss the release.

I dont think you have to worry about missing the release...once its out their will be a flurry of reviews and advertisements. Theirs no need for you to check in here and get depressed...

Originally Posted by proton45

Is a web site the only thing you need to become a "true believer" ? Maybe I have been following the sim world for too long, but I need more information about the game to get my hopes up... I'm disappointed Tree...




I dont think you have to worry about missing the release...once its out their will be a flurry of reviews and advertisements. Theirs no need for you to check in here and get depressed...

I never mentioned anything about being a true believer, I did say 'wow' it looks really good, and it maybe released sooner than we think. You are reading far too much into my posts my friend.