Flight Simulator Grounded

[ClaytonSeymour]

Is this the end of MS Flight Simulator?

Job cuts ground Flight Simulator

'The future of Microsoft's long running Flight Simulator series has been cast into doubt, after the software maker US laid-off the entire development team. Microsoft says it is "committed" to the series, despite shutting the Aces studio when it cut 5000 jobs.'

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[Guest Reimar]

That's really bad news! On the other hand the F-Sim X-Plane is even better than the FS-X. More complicated but more real.

Cheers.

[surface]

Yeah, it stinks. But the series was not progressing much and MS said they are keeping their options open for future releases.

Very bad news for huge amount of developers who were supporting the product (and themselves) through add-on packages and hardware.