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Microsoft Layoffs Hit MS Flight Simulator Studio - briefly
(hx) 07:33 PM CET - Jan,23 2009 - Post a comment / read (1)
Gamasutra reports that the company's ACES Studio, best known for their work on the long running Flight Simulator PC game series, has been hit with job reductions. The story claims through unnamed sources that the entire Flight Simulator team may have been shut down entirely.  If true this could signal an end to the game series which began way back in 1982 and remains the oldest PC game franchise to have continued regular releases. The most recent edition, Flight Simulator X, was released in 2006 with an expansion in 2007 The ACES team was also working on a new Microsoft Rail Simulator game. There's no official word if that project has been canceled because of the job cuts. The layoffs also hit those responsible for Microsoft's Xbox-oriented Gamerscore Blog, which shut down earlier this week. Former writers Chris Paladino and Nelson Rodriguez revealed the news via their respective Twitter pages. In all, Microsoft plans to eliminate 'up to' 5,000 jobs across the next year and a half, with the cuts said to be coming from R&D, marketing, sales, finance, legal, HR, and IT.

Update: According to a Microsoft spokesperson, 'We are committed to the Flight Simulator franchise which has proven to be a successful PC based game for the last 27 years. You should expect us to continue to invest in enabling great LIVE experiences on Windows, including flying games, but we have nothing specific to announce at this time.' Microsoft has said much the same thing about the Age of Empires franchise, saying they plan to release new games in the RTS series despite the closure of its dev team at Ensemble Studios.
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Sabot(02:15 PM CET - Jan,25 2009 )
M$ are in for it tight this year! Can't shift Vista -extending XP's life- and trying to kid us on that Win7 is coming in July. Boy, this company is about to get a swift kick between its legs :lol:
Flight simX was a flop, it's biggest reason for being a poor seller was because of DX10 and hellish system specs. Previously they sold the bucket load because -like The Sims, the system specs were very low.
Same went for the CFS series, people wont be 'pushed' into upgrading for hundreds of bucks for little improvement by way of viusuals and still a get a crap frame rate!
Can't wait for the next 'in denial' M$ saga. 8)

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