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So, I'm kicking back and doing a little mindless browsing and wander over to the FS Insider site. I click on the About the Aces link. The few paragraphs can't avoid the buzz words like "synergy" and "strategic priorities". Ugh!!!
I'm not a billion dollar business owner, but if it was my decision I would keep divisions that are profitable instead of scrapping them. If I was going to do some pruning, it would be elsewhere.
They plan to push "innovation, community, and collaboration to unprecedented levels"...HUH? Racing sims, fighter sims etc might do that with teams, squadrons and an ongoing campaign or season, but not a flight simulator. I think that someone needs to put down their granola, grab a cup of black coffee and look at promoting the profitable parts instead of trying to force something that doesn't exist and probably won't sell no matter how much cash they pour into it.
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Cool crashaz..Fs11 was to come with skydiving acording to the report?..I think we can go with FSX for quite a while without FS11 ..The mission tool in it can do just about everything in a lot of ways--including skydiving..easy chng object/chng object to chng object..as here in my aussie bigfoot hunter skydiver..I will get all these (out of envelope) missions wrapped up soon now all we have is FSX for an indefinite while..It might be a good thing to only have FSX for a long while..FSX is as good as it can get for what price PC it takes to run it good for now--and a (Long) while from now..I would just of liked to see TS2 get finished though..
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Certainly not for the unfortunate individuals who have just become 'redundant'.
However, it is the same for three thousand BHP employees in the same situation, or for the One Hundred Thousand +/- unfortunates who have met the same fate in under a week.
'G-L-O-B-A-L R-E-C-E-S-S-I-O-N' ................ and it is getting worse as each day passes.
"Illegitimum non carborundum".
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unless your a Bailiffand it is getting worse as each day passes
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Ouch. Now I'm starting to miss FS11. The first-person mode was asked by a lot of FS enthusiasts since long ago (walking around and inside the plane juste like in Operation Flashpoint for example). And this voice recognition with ATC just sounds cool... :faint:Planned features included voice recognition with air traffic control, first-person mode, a full fledged career mode with a job board and a currency system, a lighter-then-air aircraft class, and skydiving.
'lighter-then-air aircraft class'
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Maybe they just did a "Windows 7" on the whole company?
Leaner, better, more successful...?
But Zune and LIVE have been such a success so far that they can't fail to... fall flat on their face even more!
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Join the team responsible for building the most fun and rewarding flying experiences available on Games for Windows Live. Does working on a small, innovative team that delivers the most immersive flight experiences available today on the PC intrigue you? Our technology makes available entire continents - potentially the entire planet - for a detailed and dynamic 3D experience. We are looking for a Project Art Lead who can define, refine, and extend the visual elements while balancing the need for fun and approachability for a broad set of users.
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Manage both internal and external resources
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5+ years experience as an Art Lead across multiple shipped titles
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I kinda wonder sometimes who is in charge, or is anybody actually in charge , can't wait for the next announcement , thanks to Bill Leaming for bringing this to our attention
..If they are considering migrating Flight Simulator into LIVE..well, those still in dual up or crappy internet connections will be left without choices....
I guess they are going that way in order to fight piracy?
Prowler
so like all the other games which require online activation ... which have all been cracked anyway so theres no point in 'protection' really if you think about it
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An idea...
Some Aces developers move to id software and develop an amazing combat/simple civilian flight sim using id Tech 5, which is cross platform in development. Since id has seriously entertained the idea of eventually releasing Tech 5 as opensource, the studio appeals for a degree of investment and an advertising campaign with Ubuntu. Tech 5 is expanded along with a Linux games/opengl market. The result would be quite a feather in Mark Shuttleworth's cap.
I know I will get flamed for mentioning the unmentionable, but...........
Perhaps Aces needed to be scrapped and rebuilt and now was deemed the right time with the recession and the talent pool that will likely be available?
I for one did not feel FSX was cutting edge for flight modeling with the hardware available at release, and don't get me started with the bloated overhead with the coding that made the latest greatest computers of the day run it at 4 FPS if you wanted any trees, buildings, or textures.
Sorry, but 150 people * ~$100,000 / year = a lot. This smells of a house cleaning, and could be a blessing in the long run. I for one feel MSFS was lacking innovation with the last release and needed to go a new direction.
This is not to say Aces wasn't filled with great people who knew their sheet, but perhaps it wasn't a great TEAM of people. Wow, I'm really gonna pay for typing this. :typing:
Bill Leaming
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I guess it's out with the old and in with the new. Perhaps using the old team to build an Xbox title to port to the PC wouldn't be a good idea. :whistle:
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