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Team up with microsoft and asobo.
by TheRealPomax 3y ago
Team up with microsoft and asobo.
- hackernewds 3y agobut what about capitalism?
- TheRealPomax 3y agoWhat about it? Google charges MS/ASobo a "friendly" license fee, and MS/Asobo get a feature they can use to attract more players. All parties stand to gain concrete dollar amounts, the very backbone of capitalism.
- modeless 3y agoThey seem to be doing fine on their own. I prefer to have some competition.
- TheRealPomax 3y agoWhat's wrong with companies teaming up for specific individual products? In this case, Flight Simulator. You license the technology with friendly fees and collab for the life of a single product. Just like all licenses. (Also, no, MS/Asobo are not doing fine, their photogrammetry is renowned for looking like a molten hellscape, and the bing maps look pretty terrible compared to even plain gmaps, but it's MS so "it has to use Bing" =D)
- fetzu 3y agoI thought it was Blackshark.AI doing that specific part of Flight Simulator. AFAIK they are, or at least were looking for to, also selling that capability to other companies; and they are certainly not “vendor locked” with MS’s data..