I was checking out MS Flight Sim 2024 and found the following: https://www.si.com/videogames/features/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024-animals
A quick quote from that Article:
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Jorg Neumann, head of Microsoft Flight Simulator, used to work at Frontier, the team behind Elite: Dangerous and Planet Zoo. So when Microsoft and Asobo Studio decided to improve the fidelity of Flight Sim’s recreation of Earth, he called his former colleagues and asked them to break open the cages.
“I called Jonny (Watts, Frontier CEO),” Neumann tells me. “I just said, ‘Can I have your animals?’ I gave him some money for it. Collaboration in gaming is awesome.”
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I hope this means Elite can get some full Atmo planets with animals as well at some point!
A quick quote from that Article:
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Jorg Neumann, head of Microsoft Flight Simulator, used to work at Frontier, the team behind Elite: Dangerous and Planet Zoo. So when Microsoft and Asobo Studio decided to improve the fidelity of Flight Sim’s recreation of Earth, he called his former colleagues and asked them to break open the cages.
“I called Jonny (Watts, Frontier CEO),” Neumann tells me. “I just said, ‘Can I have your animals?’ I gave him some money for it. Collaboration in gaming is awesome.”
"
I hope this means Elite can get some full Atmo planets with animals as well at some point!