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Skybird · 07-27-12, 07:08 AM

Flight based on a completely flawed assessement from all beginning on. FSX offers much more in the default package already, and sees users investing heavily into additional planes, scenery, airports. MS wanted to get a bite of that pie, by overpriced minibits of pieces that lacked the quality of dedicated FS9- and FSX- developers. Even regarding content, the default FSX offers more than Flight would have within the forseeable number of years - just that Flight would have turned out to be hilariously expensive by following that model through. And they really expected that any serious FS hobby pilot would abandon his hundreds of dollars-heavy modded FS-installation for - for this...?

Honestly, I think it was a greedy but incompetent fool who bred this idea, and he did not know anything about how the FS/Prepar3d market functions and about the FS community's interests and motivations. And X-plane probably was just a rumour he heared about, but did not believe that it would ever become reality.

Many developers for the first time ever have started to create content for X-Plane, btw. After these many years and many versions, it now seems to experience the real liftoff.

07-27-12, 07:08 AM	#30
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,633 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Flight based on a completely flawed assessement from all beginning on. FSX offers much more in the default package already, and sees users investing heavily into additional planes, scenery, airports. MS wanted to get a bite of that pie, by overpriced minibits of pieces that lacked the quality of dedicated FS9- and FSX- developers. Even regarding content, the default FSX offers more than Flight would have within the forseeable number of years - just that Flight would have turned out to be hilariously expensive by following that model through. And they really expected that any serious FS hobby pilot would abandon his hundreds of dollars-heavy modded FS-installation for - for this...? Honestly, I think it was a greedy but incompetent fool who bred this idea, and he did not know anything about how the FS/Prepar3d market functions and about the FS community's interests and motivations. And X-plane probably was just a rumour he heared about, but did not believe that it would ever become reality. Many developers for the first time ever have started to create content for X-Plane, btw. After these many years and many versions, it now seems to experience the real liftoff. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.