- Not 15 concurrent users. They said they had reached 15 million users, total. Not concurrent. Those are 2 different things. It was Jorg that provided those numbers back at FlightSimExpo and he reiterated them at the event on the Grand Canyon last September.
- You are right that it’s not $50 to Microsoft. But don’t forget that the subscription fee doesn’t go to MSFS either. And that subscription has to pay for the dozens of games that are in the catalog. Since we don’t know if/how that is split (if at all), it’s probably safe to say that if there is a split, MSFS gets cents. And not all 120 million subscribers use MSFS. Again, I am speculating as I don’t know how the model works. If there’s a revenue share, etc.
But, considering these numbers and what we can infer from them, I don’t believe career mode itself, through the subscription system, is what will sustain MSFS because the numbers for that model are too low.
I belive the marketplace will be more of a boost, as well as actual sim sales, not so much the subscriptions. I truly don’t believe a subscriber will ever pay $60 total to MSFS. Sure, they will pay more than that yearly to Microsoft. Just not to MSFS.
But, again, this is all speculation.