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The trouble is, although FS2K performed like Johnny Vegas in the men's 100m Olympic final on many machines, I think there were notable and obvious improvements to both the graphics engine (better shading, better colours, more polys, better clouds, elimination of bleed-thrus) and the flight dynamics modelling whereas from what I have seen of screenshots and heard of the new features, it hasnt added much except for some arcade game like features.tonymadge wrote:FSX is doing what FS2000 did to FS98... Only I fear it will have amore serious result.
Hi;airboatr wrote:
on the FSX isuue
Kimber may have a point here
but I can;t find my reading glassess
I would like to say those are some nice screenies
What is that Game? the graphics look great and
I bet when your playing it you forget all about the
controversy between MS FS9 and FSX
My non-purchase of FSX will not be a boycott - simply that I don't feel the need to put £50 in Microsoft's pocket while I have a perfectly adequate (for me) FS9.Boycotting FSX won't make FSXI any better than it otherwise will be - even if sufficient numbers of people participated to actually make a significant impact (which they won't), then the only effect of low sales would be MS ditching FS for good and never making another version.
Tonytonymadge wrote:Dave a brilliant method of putting in humour I like it it
Now what the crunch is...and reading the last couple of posts confirms my worries... WE ARE going to get forced into FSX due to developers aiming towards that variant of FS. It will then do one of two things, split the FS community into FS9 or FSX lovers, with the results that it could destroy what we already have, ie:healthy development payware and free ware, or kill FS9 altogether.
I recall FS98 days I was very much against FS2000 as we know now that it was poor and a brave but fruitless attempt to get it better. FS2K2 came along and put it right.
FSX is doing what FS2000 did to FS98... Only I fear it will have amore serious result.
I have read all the pro's and cons and again I will stay with FS9 until FSX is fully sorted....I think that will be for a few years yet :think:
.....thats a valid point about FSx support, however l think its a little extreme, you can draw parallels with CFS3, it split the community, however the winner was not the new upstart, it was the old hound that every one went back to., l think theres enough interest for the next couple of years in FS9 for a slow decline in production, ohh l'll dabble in the odd one or two for FSx....like l did for CFS3, but at the end of the day its what punters want that drives many, so far there are not many 'demanding' FSx yet and the longer that goes on the worse it'll be for FSx l think.
