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MSFS Franchise and LIVE

It's also worth remembering that although WoW, and EvE and Tabula Rasa and City of Heroes and yadda, yadda, yadda are connected to central servers and databases, the client and all the maths is kept local to your machine.

You don't run an MMO across the web, you just connect to the other players across the web. No different from VATSIM or any other online FS connection now. ;)
 
Looking at all of this I am convinced flight sim as we have known it is finished. I predict a significant shift in the market towards a all new flight simulator within the next 2 to 4 years leaving any new Microsoft versions behind. This I feel will be the case unless they reverse their decision at some point. I believe there is enough knowhow out there that can be pulled together to create an all new flight sim which will be more free of limitations we have had with all M/S versions up to this point and still be able to acommodate 3rd party developments. Time will tell of course but I can say for myself and other users I know that if M/S has permanently axed FS as it currently exists and goes with such as has been discussed here, they won't get another penny from me for it!
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Anybody remember the Zone and how many were in the Fur Ball ?

I have my reasons to get ready and they are not your reasons for thinking i am wrong , nobody is obliged to consider the results of the console version a simulator , its going to be a game and playable on a phone , console or PC the future is already here , its just repeating what works already with other games.

I am happy to hear the majority of serious simmers wont touch such a thing , they are the market for FSX addons and or Xplane , the "kids" are into Games and i see the drool already dripping..
 
What exactly are Microsoft thinking at the moment? Not only have they released 2 press releases about the firing of the Aces team (according to Phil Taylor he writes on his blog, that the second one was probably because Microsoft didn't quite expect the overwhelming response from the FS community and press). However, they have now also sacked the head of the Windows Live service (see link below) I simply don't understand what's going on at the moment.

http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+Windows+Live+Head+Among+Job+Cuts/article14056.htm

Rojan

P.S It's my first time here please be gentle!!!
 
Chris H said:
To be honest I doubt it makes LIVE users feel anything really. LIVE is just a glorified stats tracker and multiplayer matchmaking service, in no way does it affect the actual playing of the game.

They haven't really got LIVE up and running. It's a non-starter on the X-box as I understand you have to pay for the privilege of the more advanced matchmaking features, and that's why it's not doing too well. Once more PC based titles support it (to my knowledge apart from the obvious Microsoft produced ones) the only major title thus far to support LIVE on the PC was Grand Theft Auto IV, and then only for stats tracking. Dawn Of War II is the only game I've actually used that integrated LIVE fully and it actually works incredibly well for arranging multiplayer games with friends. Once more PC titles support it I imagine it'll start to become more commonplace.
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some games I won't be able to play online without LIVE. Such as HAlo 2 and COD5 World at War
 
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