Dovetail Games enters License agreement with Microsft for their flight sim franchise

[dburne]

Could be interesting.

 

http://www.pcpilot.net/view_article.asp?ID=8033&pubID=8&t=0&s=0&sO=both&p=1&i=10&dm_i=4JU,2MFAI,1T559B,9KW9G,1

[LizLemon]

Except lockheed already bought the rights to the old esp fm ised by msfs up to fsx.

 

Prepar3d is the real successor to fsx, it works with most of the ad ons, and fixes most of the problems in fsx

[TheBlackPenguin]

Except lockheed already bought the rights to the old esp fm ised by msfs up to fsx.

 

Prepar3d is the real successor to fsx, it works with most of the ad ons, and fixes most of the problems in fsx

 

To a large degree, yes.

 

However unfortunately Prepar3d licensing isn't aimed at the end user playing for fun or entertainment and no such license actually exists.

[Seren77]

From what I just read dovetail now owns the source code and the rights. 

 

How does a home simmer like me use prepar3d? After looking to buy it, their site is just like no, not for home simmers go away.

[Shitigi]

who make care something this game?

 

it just usa plane, but every man no russia one ww2 )))))

 

thank devs for showing good russia plans that beat murderers ))))

 

i no i do ))))

[LLv34_Flanker]

S!

 

 Shitigi, maybe you should educate yourself a bit more before throwing out arguments like that OR you are just a poor troll

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

S!

 

 Shitigi, maybe you should educate yourself a bit more before throwing out arguments like that OR you are just a poor troll

You'd think he'd at least fancy the P-39.

[Rjel]

I once thought the internet would be a conduit to bring all of mankind together someday with the direct interaction of different cultures. What a fool was I.

[siipperi]

So they are going to scam steam users and then make their own game?

[TheBlackPenguin]

So they are going to scam steam users and then make their own game?

 

Not necessarily so, from what I can tell they should be releasing MS Flightsimulator X: Steam edition fairly soon, which will basically be the Gold edition just sold through Steam.

 

This point:

 

"The award-winning creators of the best-selling Train Simulator franchise have today announced a global licensing deal with Microsoft, granting them the rights to develop and publish all-new flight products based on Microsoft’s genre-defining flight technology.

 

The company is currently investigating new concepts in this area and is expecting to bring a release to market in 2015."

 

Its not entirely clear, it could mean a new evolved product similar to Prepa3rd, but aimed at the flightsim enthusiast (who will want it as detailed as Prepa3rd), or it could mean they will be selling their own add-ons for FSX Steam edition and maybe sub-licensing other 3rd party providers to use the service (ie, Aerosoft "Airport X" Steam edition, they would likely have to pay DTG a fee to enable it to be pushed through Steam).

 

Steam users have complained before about the total cost of add-ons for Trainsimulator, now imagine if this takes off and we see a large amount of FSX add-on's being sold through Steam lol.

 

I hope that makes sense.