I disagree. Making money off of Marketplace for Asobo would be tripping over $100 bills to pick up quarters.
An annual subscription model or coming out with a new and improved sim very few years would be lucrative.
Look at EA Sports. Every year is a new F1 title.
We’re not talking micro transactions here. Like other vendors, the marketplace takes around thirty percent of the retail cost.
Take something like the PMDG Boeings, they’re consistently in the best sellers list. Everytime someone purchases one in the marketplace Microsoft are receiving around $25.
If you’re on Xbox - and soon PS5 - it’s the marketplace or nothing.
PMDG report around forty per cent of their customers are console users and MS report around ten million individual users…
We already have a subscription model in Xbox game pass.
Inm an iracing médiocre fan 1580 IR…but i share in totality your thoughts..’’love The two activities ‘‘lfs for cerebral and contemplation, the other for all we have to learn, replicate with very rough opponents.
Sorry im French
I’m officially still disappointed.
There’s also a bug or something in how weights are reported that has had Neofly broken for a while now, where it is unable to read weight changes in some aircraft.
Thankfully I got a Steam gift card for Christmas and have been playing some other games bug free lately. Guess I’ll keep with them and check back in on FS24 when the next sim update is out. I can rarely fly thanks to these game breaking bugs on the one plane I actually want to fly.
I can not even begin to comprehend this…
Strange. I purchased the premium deluxe version and upto now I’ve flown 30 of the 95 aircraft that you get with premium deluxe. I usually spend a couple of weeks with each aircraft, learning everything about it before moving onto the next. This includes all the airbuses, the Boeing, single and double props. Also the CJ4. Apart from some major bugs in the Globe master c17 I’ve been able to fly all of them 30 aircraft from one place to another with near enough zero problems.
Yes I think in Free Flight there are less issues, I too don’t tend to have too many bug problems. In Career mode it is another story. Hoping for fixes soon before we have to wait another 4 months for SU5 to drop!
In comparison to 3rd party aircraft, might you have a different view?
I’m on Xbox series X with a 70mb internet connection (normally ethernet but wifi at the moment) and the last flight I did on 2020 (which ended with a CTD during cruise) was just before SU4 beta suddenly got good. Once SU4 released, I uninstalled 2020 and haven’t looked back in any way flying mostly inibuilds Airbus aircraft (A20N, A330, A350) but now flying PMDG 737-800 and 777-300ER with lots of 3rd party airport usage. But this is perhaps the thing … I haven’t even dared to try career mode. This is in part because I’m just not interested and am happy in Free Flight flying routes for a virtual airline but in the back of my mind is all of the talk of bugs on it, seeing people spawn up trees or being forced to land in water or STOL runways. No thanks
So in my use-case, I am having far fewer issues with 2024 than I used to have with 2020 and am really happy with it. Strangely, I know not everyone shares this experience with some experiencing constant WASM crashes which I have never had. This is definitely something that needs figured out as to what is causing this
The CJ4 technically flies ok, but some of the switches require me to nice the camera to get to, which has been impossible without also moving the yoke. Plus I just like to move the camera around the cabin, which can’t be done anymore. I know hot keys can be set up for that, but I’m not always in the same spot. Sometimes I just want to effectively tilt my head.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I prefer to use a mouse for zooming in on switches
You can put dead zones into the 2 yoke axis.
The taxi ribbon is the most absurd I have seen in my many years (actually decades) of flight simulation. The markers are like massive concrete blocks floating (by magic, presumably) well above the ground. But, to make them look more realistic, they actually cast a shadow on the ground! That’s just adding insult to injury. All of this does nothing but kill any feeling of immersion.
These seem to be aimed at helping novices, but leaves the more experienced users with a problem. If we want to taxi without these monstrosities, we either need to follow the taxi instructions but without the help of reliable taxi-way signs, try to follow the taxi-ways on a separate map (difficult in VR), or roam around the airport and trust to luck that we end up at our appointed marshall.
And it has been like this since the launch of FS2020. What would be much better would be discreet, 2D markings on the ground which are visible for a short distance ahead of the plane. There used to be an add-on on Flightsim.to, but this is now out of date, causing problems - surely Asobo could implement something like this in the actual sim? Apparently not.
For me, this is just one of the ways in which FS2024 is still a disappointment.
Or you could turn it on to get the general direction for taxi and then off again until you again need to refresh your direction and off again.
GSX has a better taxi assist, it has a progressive assist system that’s not as intrusive, just alerts you at certain turns e.g, also has a follow me option where a car comes along you follow.
Asobo could improve the taxi assist system so much just by making the arrows a lot lot smaller, I have no idea why they need to be so big!
These things grate me because it’s so obvious that it can be improved simply by reducing the assist arrows size, Is it really that hard.
I’ve tried this, but I don’t like having to continuously turn it on and off again. Again, very immersion-breaking.
Thinking a much better taxi assist option would be small, ground-level dots or dashes along the taxiway centerline with a simple toggle to turn taxi guidance off, or switch between floating ribbon, ground-level dots, dashes, or a thin 2D line. Another option would be a taxi guidance window, similar to the in-game toolbar panels at the top of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. This could be a small pop-up that shows a schematic taxi route that can be zoomed in.
I don’t have this issue with the enhanced airports addon (or improved airports can’t remember)
You DO know that you can switch them off, my felliw immersion seeker 
…or use the mod that makes them easier to swallow… if you need them to find your way on your immensely immersive airport….
Yes. You must have missed the part of my post where I describe the alternatives, and where I also point out that the add-ons are out of date, and cause problems at least on my system.
