They will give news when they have something to share as they are an old school developer (ESP) from the 2000’s, they just don’t give info like most of the new FS developers hyping things and keep hanging people on a string for months or even years without a product. They don’t work that way and they are also a commercial developer who take their product very serious as close to perfection as they can for a desktop. (Give them time) Patience is a virtue they don’t rush things to satisfy impatient customers.
They used to be very communicative with frequent in-depth development updates in video format.
When I purchased the B-17 for FSX back in the day Scott Gentile even randomly called my phone number that I put down in the store, asking if everything worked fine and how I liked it. Now that’s communicative!
They somewhat dialed down their interaction with customers over the years.
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I guess it’ll get here when it gets here. Gotta say, I’m looking forward to this more than MSFS2024.
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Aaaaah, back in FSX. Back when the global flight sim community was just few hundred thousand people, and everyone looked forward to things and got excited about things and the devs felt like part of the community.
The community has changed a lot since then. When devs post updates about planes they’re developing now, at least half of the replies will be people asking will it be for xbox, will it have support for the GTNs, have they fixed …, I’m not buying anything from you until you fix …, who are you I’ve never heard of you, you guys suck why couldn’t [my favourite dev] make this, you said 2 years ago you’d be releasing it last month where is it, yada yada yada.
A small but growing number of devs now only talk about upcoming products on their discords, to people who’ve made the effort to find and follow their discord. Forums and facebook find out about things when they’re released.
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I wonder how many projects are in ‘shelter in place’ mode waiting on the 2024 SDK to make sure they’re not going in directions that need major changes. Kind of like the FlightFX Piaggio that fell off of a cliff for updates. Ironically, both aircraft were at about the same development stages a few months back.
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Quite a few I imagine. Black Square have been pretty quiet about the Beechcraft Starship since the initial teaser video a while back.
If I was a dev I’d definitely wait for the 2024 SDK before releasing complex airplanes. I don’t think releasing new stuff with 2024 imminent makes much sense anyway, because everybody will be busy playing with the new features and included airplanes. Better to let the dust settle and wait for the appetite for add-ons to start growing again (whilst taking advantage of everything the 2024 SDK has to offer in the meantime).
So I think the near future will be lacklustre in terms of new add-ons, but we’ll have MSFS 2024 so all good. And when the Aerostar is finally released I will buy it day one 
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Depending on the SDK, some projects may go to '24 only. Apparently the capability to build a tube aircraft and cover it with flexible cloth might be a thing in FS24.
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Still holding out for this one- when it’s ready I’ll be ready!