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Might wanna be sitting down for this one...

n4gix said:
Christmas 2009, not this past Christmas! :whistle:
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Hmmm I think I was refering to MSTS on that......

Was I wrong? I was pretty sure it was due out around that time....

But not FS 11....... Was not refering to that....
 
Pepere said:
My personnel thought - we, FS, got the ax, in part, because we, FS, do/did not not support Vista os. "You, fs community, don't play my, MS, way I'm taking my toys and going home!" :caked:

David :kilroy:
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My thoughs too David.

If you can't play nice and buy what I have to offer you... TS! You can't have my toys at all cause you don'
t play fair. All this from MS might just drive customers away permanently. If Apple and Mac can switch to make all MS games playable, and programs doable... they just might take over MS's coveted spot. Then where will MS be? I'm thinking here ----> :toilet:
 
Hi guys,

as for the TS2 release date, now obsolete, see http://tsinsider.com/product/overview.aspx

I don't think it was in Beta yet but pretty far advanced. Can you imagine putting all that creative energy into a huge project like this and then someone from upstairs tells you and your colleagues to clear your desk within 24 hours, and don't forget to switch off the lights...

Cheers, Holger
 
GT182 said:
If Apple and Mac can switch to make all MS games playable, and programs doable... they just might take over MS's coveted spot. Then where will MS be? I'm thinking here ----> :toilet:
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Yep! This move by MS does leave a door wide open in sveral areas for someone or severl someones to move on in. Time will tell. :wave:

David :kilroy:
 
I thought this idea was pretty good, one of the better ideas anyway. Is something like this at all feasable? Posted by Gizmo at nvnews.

Gizmo said:
I think that the core guys from aces should get together and write a core 3d engine that can handle all the current FSX SDK complient file formats and market it just as a backend standalone 3d engine,theres really no need for them to build a completly new sim as all the content is out either free or payware FSX's engine problems are all about how it handles its files not the content or weight of those files,this would give the FS community a better platform to work from & be one in the face for the suits at M$
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SolarEagle said:
I thought this idea was pretty good, one of the better ideas anyway. Is something like this at all feasable? Posted by Gizmo at nvnews.
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Financed how??
Employees who find themselves suddenly unemployed need to find a job that will pay for the neccessities of 'real' life.
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I like the SOH idea of setting up a private forum for any ACES team or staff members to use - seems to me a helpful way for some folks to 'decompress' as well as to stay in touch with each other and maybe network on new job possibilities.

...sure would like to be a fly on the wall though...


too bad about TS2 - I guess some other developer is going to have to try to come up with something on that front.

stupid ignorant M$
 
I saw an interesting program tonight.. This guy was part of a group. They all sent in $75.00 dollars (actually 35,00 Pounds Sterling) and they all purchased a Football Team in England..!

I wonder... If we did all stand behind the guys at Aces, could we form a sort of public ownership coop and actually raise the money and purchase the franchise from MS? Would they be willing to sell the code? If they have a copy of the code and we had a copy of the code 'owned outright' to do with what we all wanted, we could convert it to OpenGL, we could make a Mac version, the sky would be the limit and no bean counters could interject and screw everything up....!



hmm...



Bill
 
We (the team at large) did ask about the possibility of buying the IP, but the answer was that MS believes in the IP and would not be willing to sell it.
 
heywooood said:
I like the SOH idea of setting up a private forum for any ACES team or staff members to use - seems to me a helpful way for some folks to 'decompress' as well as to stay in touch with each other and maybe network on new job possibilities.

...sure would like to be a fly on the wall though...


too bad about TS2 - I guess some other developer is going to have to try to come up with something on that front.

stupid ignorant M$
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I'm sure they'er too smart to "decompress" here in certain stretches of the term. Nearly everything we'd think they would discuss is confidential.:monkies:
 
P-12C said:
We (the team at large) did ask about the possibility of buying the IP, but the answer was that MS believes in the IP and would not be willing to sell it.
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Which is exactly what I'd expect them to say !
Hi Paul !!! Hope you got my email !? :wave:
 
Lionheart said:
I saw an interesting program tonight.. This guy was part of a group. They all sent in $75.00 dollars (actually 35,00 Pounds Sterling) and they all purchased a Football Team in England..!
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It happens from time to time, when Not a Number, a company behind Blender was closed they sold Blender IP, source code to community for 100000 Euro, the money was collected by members of community. Now Blender is Open Source, and it's getting better with every release.

Paul - best wishes for you guys, too bad Microsoft didn't want to sell you the IP.
 
P-12C said:
We (the team at large) did ask about the possibility of buying the IP, but the answer was that MS believes in the IP and would not be willing to sell it.
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darn...


What if you got a huge gaming firm to carry it and make a offer with 'huge figures'? like Obi-Soft...?



Bill

EDIT: You probably already did.. arrgh.

EDIT 2: Well.. If you guys are motivated enough, you could darn well create a new sim game engine, and being that its fresh from scratch, it might be a neater, cleaner running, more efficient sim engine. This might turn into a blessing. No bean counters from MS telling you when to launch, how many to hire, etc.... Just focus on the game engine and have fun!



Bill
 
From going through the recent (gaming) industry news many of the HUGE gaming companies are in trouble themselves (Ubisoft, EA et other). So I don't think they'll even want FS, especially since it is tiny in comparison to the shoot-em-ups, run-em-downs and hop-em-overs that people play on consoles. (And yes, I play racing games and Brothers in Arms and many of those things myself... but it is just not the same league).
 
So as much as we think otherwise, we FS Simmers are a minority group...

In that sense you have to understand Microsoft. Oh well, such is business.
 
If Microsoft actually fired all of the people they will need to build the new metaverse, then Steve Ballmer missed shooting himself in the foot and actually hit his own head. Google can hire them all and Microsoft will fall away like the old Roman Empire.
 
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