BPL 39 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 It appears that MS has stopped development of FLIGHT!. Frankly, I'm not all that surprised. I don't see how the market for that game could be very large. http://forum.avsim.net/page/index.html/_/pri-news/reports-of-ms-flight-shutdown-r489 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindbergh72 74 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I don't understand why they think that an arcade game will beat the current FS platforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB 11 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 It appears to be confirmed: http://kotaku.com/5929141/microsoft-shuts-down-vancouver+based-studio So apart from a few people enjoying their Schadenfreude, where does it leave us? No different. We still have FSX and FS9... Now... about Aerosoft's plans? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerries 24 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 R.I.P It is (was) a nice pastime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emi 5161 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 wasn't it claer from the beginning on? Not allowing addon manufacturers to build addons, only supporting a very few regions of the world and not even giving us a airliner to fly must lead to that. Expecially with other simulators like X-Plane or P3D being around. At least for me it was totally clear from the beginning on that this couldn't become a success. They just did not give us what we desired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted July 26, 2012 Aerosoft Share Posted July 26, 2012 And again it is a clear confirmation that Microsoft is just not a reliable partner at this moment. I know of some people who dropped other work after talking to Microsoft to do add-ons for FLIGHT (not us, btw) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EDNR-Cruiser 319 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Lacking knowledge, ambition, focus, competitivness and - most of all - vision this project was doomed from the beginning. I can only hope that this project was small enough to run completely under the radar of MS top brass - otherwise it casts very dark shadows on MicroSoft as a company! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K 93 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 And again it is a clear confirmation that Microsoft is just not a reliable partner at this moment. I know of some people who dropped other work after talking to Microsoft to do add-ons for FLIGHT (not us, btw) I think the poll you did a while back as to who was using Flight, who had it installed but no longer using it etc etc confirmed Aerosoft's forum membership to be a microcosm of the flight simming community as a whole, Mathijs. Flight just wasn't floating enough people's boats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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