Warning to P3D users
Posted: 29 Apr 2018, 18:22
By now I am sure that many of you have heard about Dovetail cancelling Flight Sim World ( FSW ) I will not discuss the reasons I feel this program has failed. What is of concern are the events that happened on FSW's facebook page during the last 2 months before they discontinued the product. Day after day Dovetail and FSW were trying to get sales. In fact they were talking about the future of their flight simulator 2 days before they announced the product will no longer be developed.
So what concerns me is Dovetail must have already come to the conclusion at this point that they were going to pull the plug. They were trying to get more money before doing so from anyone foolish enough to bite that hook. This would be an attempt to make up costs from their purchase of the entertainment rights from Microsoft. In fact they still have FSW for sale on steam until May the 24th . What does that tell you ?
My fear is, they might attempt to go after Lockheed Martin for not enforcing their licenses in order to recoup more of those losses by claiming it contributed to the failure of FSW. This would force Lockheed Martin to either remove the Academic Licence and hurt many end users or they would have to increase the price in order to pay Dovetail damage claims.
Dovetail is a big fat stain on our community and have done damage to our hobby already. The other choice would be for Lockheed to be forced to pull the plug on the only other ESP platform in flight simulation . If this happens , X Plane would become the monopoly in PC Flight Simulation. Such a monopoly would be very bad for the end user. We need at least two main flight simulation companies to exist , in order to promote healthy competition , and continued third party development
So what concerns me is Dovetail must have already come to the conclusion at this point that they were going to pull the plug. They were trying to get more money before doing so from anyone foolish enough to bite that hook. This would be an attempt to make up costs from their purchase of the entertainment rights from Microsoft. In fact they still have FSW for sale on steam until May the 24th . What does that tell you ?
My fear is, they might attempt to go after Lockheed Martin for not enforcing their licenses in order to recoup more of those losses by claiming it contributed to the failure of FSW. This would force Lockheed Martin to either remove the Academic Licence and hurt many end users or they would have to increase the price in order to pay Dovetail damage claims.
Dovetail is a big fat stain on our community and have done damage to our hobby already. The other choice would be for Lockheed to be forced to pull the plug on the only other ESP platform in flight simulation . If this happens , X Plane would become the monopoly in PC Flight Simulation. Such a monopoly would be very bad for the end user. We need at least two main flight simulation companies to exist , in order to promote healthy competition , and continued third party development