I really liked that product, and it has the legacy of being one of Microsoft's oldest product lines.
There's also a very vibrant community about adding mods and additions onto Flight Simulator, I'm really curious as to why it was killed off. Was the the Flight Sim team really that big of a drain on Microsoft's balance sheet?
Just really sad about spending hours on a product dying off... :(
From an external perspective, it seems most likely due to IEB's leadership at the time wanting to focus all their resources behind the upcoming Xbox One, in hopes they could replicate the success of the Xbox 360, and the misguided belief that PC gaming was dying out.
Neither of those bets worked out particularly well for them.
> Was the the Flight Sim team really that big of a drain on Microsoft's balance sheet?
Rumor has it that it consistently turned a small but not insignificant profit.
Apparently it's budget cut, which is weird since we know MS are always swimming in cash...