Microsoft Flight Discontinued

[Garry Russell]

[airboatr]

I'm sure someone here said that they had paid for the Developer version,

Rick Piper.


But, he said he wasn't going to continue. Or was thinking of discontinuing it.

[SkippyBing]

I've got the developer license and to be honest apart from the ability to put a copy on two separate machines I don't really see any advantage as the SDK is free anyway, so after 5 months or so I'd have been better off getting the academic licence.
I don't know if there are any legalities involved if you make payware using the SDK but don't have a developer licence, but as regards freeware I can't see there being any problems. I mean they'd have to look pretty closely to tell if you'd made it with the FSX SDK anyway, and they probably have better things to be getting on with.

[DogTailRed2]

Never tried it, never will.
I've invested 6 years in FSX (probably 30 from the days of Sublogic), what with add-ons, aircraft, pc upgrades etc.
Didn't see the point in MS Flight.

[Garry Russell]

But it was never intended to be an FS.X replacement...it was something different and to be treated as such.

[DogTailRed2]

So what was the benefit of MS Flight then?
Simplified flight experience - well that turns of the majority of Flight Simmers.
More of a game experience - well that turns off all the gamers as flightsims per-se are relatively booring when compared to MW2.
Graphically superior - not from what I've seen.
Still don't get it, neither did anyone else it would seem.

[TSR2]

The out of the box graphics where far superior to FS9 and FSX and the environment was quite clever, wind blowing and moving trees etc. It was good fun, but not designed as an FSX replacement, for that you need to look to P3D which the community seems to be turning to now and I must admit I'm a big fan of. The only think that worries me about P3D is that it only sits loosely with Lockheed Martins core business, so might get spun off at some point when the bean counters decide its not what they want to be doing any more.

[TSR2]

interesting thread over on the P3D forum and some valid comments too...

http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingle ... pic&t=1435