I just purchased an extra copy of the FSX-Accelerator Combo Pack. I don't need to open it; my current install is fine. My concern is that MS wants to replace FSX with Flight, an arcade game, and make more money by forcing people to pay separately for different geographic areas, planes, etc. That makes sense from MS' standpoint but it's not the best thing from a consumer standpoint. Not to mention the unnecessary Flight game. FSX can already be flown arcade style by selecting the right options. I don't fly it as a full sim. It's already accessible to a broad market, so that excuse is a crock of cr*p. It's about MONEY. Plain and simple.

One day soon, FSX will no longer be available. I figure we'd better get extra copies while we can.

Why get multiple copies?

The image files of the disk will always be available somewhere around the web and as long as you don't lose your activation key code, you'll be fine until MS shuts down the activation servers.

Or just make images of your own disks, there not copy protected.
As long as you don't loose your serial numbers your good to go.

Had to do it with mine. Disk one started to de-laminate so I did it while it was still readable.

A lot of people are still stuck on this huh? The rest of you post maybe true, yet i'm still thinking it's going to be a mix sim/game.
Only way to find out is to wait for final release hmmm?

Even if it isn't a pure arcade game, MS still wants to charge for addional places to fly around in, and that is unacceptable. Even at a reduced rate, I call that highway robbery. I want the whole earth in one package. I want the next version of the Flight Simulator series.

Panic now and throw Microsoft another $50 for a redundant copy of FSX.

50 bucks? Is that what you paid? Not me. I paid a fraction of that amount. Besides, I may never open this new copy. I'll keep it for a few years, long after Flight flops and people are begging for FSX, but there are none to be found cause greedy MS stopped making 'em years ago. Then I'll sell it on Ebay for $400.

You're right, Amazon does have Gold Pack for around $25 and Deluxe version by itself can be found for even less. The prices are much lower than they were a couple of years ago.

Back in 2007 I paid Microsoft's full asking price of $70 for the Deluxe version; that was without the Acceleration pack. Of course the retail price dropped to $50 just a few months later, grrrr... A year later I paid another $30 for Acceleration. I'm glad you got a much better deal on your copy. I think I'll just take my chances and live with my one set of DVDs for now and wait and see if civilization still exists in 2013.

Good luck with that.


You should try Prepar 3D instead. This is the closest you will get to a flightsim in MSFS' spirit.
Heck you can apparently even port over most of your add-ons!

Heh.
Fires up FS9.... Looks awesome to me, still.

Prepar 3D is an option, I suppose. But why use it instead of FSX? Isn't the same sim? Also, I don't like the idea of paying a monthly fee to game.

To be fair,I'm stuck on the lack of third party support, and the removal of the entire planet.



From the way the guys at ORBX are talking, the Prepar3d team is basically working on FS11 as we speak. Among their improvements will be shuffling a lot of the workload to GPU's, for example.

As far as monthly fee? I figure $120 a year is a fair price if Lockheed continues to put their money where MS's mouth was. I'd have happily been paying $10 a month for FSX all these years if there were constant improvements being made to the sim the entire time. I think it's healthy for the industry to start charging premium prices for premium content.



BTW, regading multiple copies, don't you only get three serial number activations per copy?

No. You can activate it as often as you want to, but after three or four internet activations, you'll have to call MS to get your activation code. Just like Windows.

I installed my copy of FSX at least twice onto my laptop before I bought my desktop, and I know I've installed/reinstalled onto the desktop system at least three times including once after I had to replace my harddrive and more recently when I decided to upgrade to Windows 7 and I felt it was a good time to rebuild FSX from scratch. That's five times that I can remember and I have never had to call Microsoft.

You can get a download version of FSX Gold from Windows Live for 15 bucks right now. I bought it the other night. Presumably, there’s no reason to keep backups of discs if you can always just re-download if you need to reinstall.

I was hoping I would get a file that I could back-up (just in case) when I downloaded, but apparently it’s a “install me now or just re-download me later” file (actually it looked to be about 30 archive files, I guess I could have tried backing all of them up…).

Does anyone know (legally) how long a game I purchased as download only has to remain available to me to re-download?