Its not that I am asking them to help XBox as such. Let me put it this way.
I’ve seen PC players vote and press for fixes on PC that don’t effect them. The are good about that. Perhaps something happens to VR. I’ve seen PC users that don’t use VR stand behind and insist VR get fixed. They can relate to their fellow PC simmer.
But when it comes to XBox, I don’t see that. And its not on purpose. I will give this example. A couple weeks ago, the people next door to me told me the couple across the street, 6 months ago the woman had a stroke, and the man has been taking care of her. I was like “Oh wow, that’s why I haven’t seen Sandy outside in a while”. I was sad to hear the news. But I didn’t start bringing over dinner made for them, I didn’t decide to snow plow their driveway for them, or anything like that. It’s not malicious, its just, you don’t think about it because it doesn’t effect you. Well, same thing here. PC users can’t quite relate to XBox issues, it doesn’t effect them, so its kind of a “Darn, sorry to hear that is happening on XBox… So when will I be getting augmented reality support in the sim?”
And thats where I am trying to point out, the large majority of Marketplace sales comes from the XBox community. That funds all these different deals with 3rd parties. It helps hire in talent that helps us all. It helps fund the digital documentation of historic aircraft. Think about it, another 40 years from now you aren’t going to find someone who flew some of these planes. Some of the aircraft manufacturers maybe handed down generations of the family, but some of the history will be lost. You might not be able to make the scans you can make now. I admit, a year ago, I figured Microsoft was just going to pocket the 30% from the marketplace. But they aren’t. They are investing so much of it back into the sim, and trying to save pieces of aviation history.
So yeah, I’m just trying to say, you know what, if something is really negatively impacting XBox, that matters to us all. So much of the revenue this sim sees if from the XBox and Cloud platforms.