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

[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.

[Antoninus]

The trailer is available on youtube since several days.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Antoninus

The trailer is available on youtube since several days.

lol .. that says wonders for Microsoft that you need to go to youtube to get a bug free version of one of their promo videos

I am not surprised. I have given up trying to get Windows Live to download and install on my win7/64 work machine, (I am assuming some microsoft snoop/validation software is having trouble with our corporate firewall).

[artjunky]

Even if MS-Flight is just being started today, it's my bet that it will be on the shelves before SoW.

That's not my preference but we've been looking at videos, Screen-shots and seen interviews of Oleg and SoW for how long, 6 years now? That's a bit of a wait. SoW has always looked REALLY good but IF it never makes it to market, what does it really matter?

I liked FSX AND we didn't have to wait half a decade to see it.

That said, I REALLY liked (preferred) IL2 and it would be nice if there was some sort of sort of official indication of when it's going to be released. 2010? 2012? 2015?

Really, when?

As far as MS-Flight videos not working, perhaps it's your own system that's not set up correctly; I had NO problems viewing the video.

[FAE_Cazador]

Originally Posted by Antoninus

The trailer is available on youtube since several days.

Yeah I finally downloaded it from another website and watched it.

@Artjunky: Trying to see directly on the MS website not only forced me to install WMP 10 but, as I rejected that, my Firefox 3.8 got stuck and had to kill the Firefox process to go on. It's the only time I have seen such behaviour, I can tell you I have opened a lot of videos in a lot of websites with no problems

Well, and what about the video Just to see a Boeing Stearman flying by for some seconds, on quite nice waters and something like the "Jurassic Park" island on the background? (It also reminds me Oleg's funny island shown on screenshots posted months ago)

What does it shows? Vaporware, so far.

IMHO M-S has got what they wanted: just to make Air Sim community to pay attention to them again, at very low cost.

[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.

As far as the video is concerned, with YOUTUBE, flash, and html5, there are a lot of things that are changing video formats. It's actually sort of amazing that we can actually play videos.

AVIs are falling out of use and it's really an issue with the drivers. Sorry to imply that you didn't know what you were doing...I was just trying to suggest that your system needs to be tweaked every once in a while to keep it working... Even then, there's no guarantee. And being on a 64 bit system, you add a few more layers of complexity...often drivers are slow to be developed in 64 bit...

[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.