Dovetail Pulling Plug on Flight Sim World

[Harold Henderson]

From their site:

"It is with great sadness that we announce the future closure of Flight Sim World.

As you know, we always had a strong ambition to bring a new experience into the established world of flight simulation, one that deliberately overhauled both the flying experience and the graphical fidelity, offering new ways to fly.

Unfortunately, after many detailed discussions, we regrettably don’t see a clear direction that will allow us to keep to the development time we’d want, alongside the player numbers we need.

So, slightly before a year since we first launched into Early Access, we have made the intensely difficult decision to fully scale back all future development on Flight Sim World and remove it from sale on 24th May.

We’re sure you have lots of questions, we hope we’ve answered a few here."

Background from Robert Randazzo/PMDG here - https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/5354 ... surprised/

[Harold Henderson]

Watch Froogle's analysis here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ujKNoCVvVM

[Rey Ramon]

Howdy all. We'll I've been away for a very long time. Just installed a new ssd drive and was thinking of resintalling FSX. I came on to see what plateform everyone was running..and considering box fsx vs steam versions. Is this Flight Sim World they are talking about different that FSX Steam? Just starting to look into it all, so just starting to look into it.
Rey

[Wayne Pierce]

Flight Sim World is not the FSX steam. It was a new 64 bit platform Dovetail had put out. One had to start buying the different parts of the world in addition to the base package to fly in it. I bought it and returned it after 5 minutes of use. One was allowed 2 hours to try it out before return of the product. No longer. Orbx had made some scenery for it but backed out.
WLP