All I'm saying is that the DCS series, to me, represents the ultimate in flight fidelity at this point. MS Flight might turn out to be fantastic - who knows. It sounds like they are giving away the core, then going to charge for DLC or subscription or something. I tip my hat at the new business model. As long as the core is good enough for guys like Level D and Aerosoft to work with, I'll be a happy camper.

There is a lot to be revealed yet I'm sure..

The more effort that goes into making it a GAME, the less effort goes into programming Hi-fidelity flight modelling. You can't have your cake and eat it.

I think something inside me just died a little when I watched that trailer.

Look at the money that iRacing makes with downloadable content.

Also iRacing has a lot of 'achievements' they keep track of.

I'm more of a sim fan myself though.

Will not replace FSX+ORBX for me where I fly most of the time, but looks like it could be a fun diversion (like XP10), maybe the free model will introduce a bunch of new gamers to the flightsim bug.

Hope those of us who signed up for the beta get to see it soon.

They didn't say it right out, but I get the feeling that perhaps additional parts of the world might be DLC?

I can't get all depressed. Given how many aircraft populate the FS9 and FSX worlds, as long as the "works" give addon developers what they need to build quality addons there's hope. The real worry is the lag before the quality addons start to hit the market. Unfortunately it seems as though it takes half way through the FS product life before the addons start to really bloom. And then when the sim is nearing replacement, some really interesting projects seem to get lost in the transition.

With players demanding ever more detail in visuals, sound, and technical modeling, quality addon development may extend even longer. And potentially more delicate "free to play" market type for the series, in which MS expenditures on supporting the free to play product may depend on meeting DLC sales projections. Considered together, these issues may present problems.

Yeah Good chance that it will have more high detail DLC locations and planes so maybe will compete with Take On Helicopter and not so much with other "full world" sims.

More details here:
http://flyawaysimulation.com/news/4317/m.../#ixzz1iViQ3c2q

No 3rd party SDK likely means most devs of hard core addons will not be involved unless MS does like they did with Acceleration and outsource the work for internal release.

For me this is actually good news, it sounds like we will be getting a nice free to play light GA MS flight sim which is easy on the eyes, plus all the awesome FSX addons I bought this year (ORBX scenery, high quality aircraft etc) did not get made redundant by MS Flight, and since this doesn't seem to compete with FSX for that hard core sim enthusiast hopefully Lockheed Martin will be allowed to proceed with their enhancements to FSX via their Prepar3D product and market it to us hardcore home simmers without MS standing in the way.

"Additional downloadable content will make this a very special experience."

Maybe you can stick your arms out with Kinect and fly all around the room.

I already do that after 3 shots of tequila.. *

* You don't want to know what happens after the fourth...

Thanks for the link. That article would appear to sum things up.