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There was for a brief time one of the Black Square Steam Gauge variants. I bought it. And now it doesnt show up in my purchased content, and a new entry, or in Content Manager.
I’m not sure if the purchase went through. And if it did, will it show up Monday or next Thursday if I have already done the purchase?
It was the Black square Caravan! I was wondering too! But It has been removed from Marketplace!
Meh. As usual for releases.
Far out Xbox is waiting on new PMDG 777 livery packs and 737 update and Microsoft just keep promoting captain sim and VA systems rubbish. Mondays release has like 3 items surely things can move faster
Hello @Kulch,
Microsoft is not “promoting” any particular product or developer, nor are we holding back products from Developer A in favor of releasing products from Developer B instead. The selection of items released to the Marketplace each week depends entirely on the respective developer completing testing of their own products and signing off that they are ready to release.
Thanks,
MSFS Team
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Thanks for the pic choice @SeedyL3205 and others!
If you still have the files, pop them from your official folder into your community folder.
I have only one question about MSFS2024 - will there be a one button, one press, Fly-By view??
Asking for a friend who still can’t believe we’re still waiting for this…
Like Jörg mentioned on the last stream, the dev update says
Next week’s livestream will feature aircraft developer Mike Johnson as well as members of the team at iniBuilds
But the image a bit further down still says 1st party world partners for next week’s livestream. Will the world partners stream be on November 13th?
I actually expected a statement from Microsoft on what happened with the Blacksquare Caravan, why it was removed from the store, and what people who purchased it can expect. But so far, nothing.
That would be for if I want to get a refund. I want the plane. I just want to know what happened, why it was removed after it was listed, and what can we expect will happen. Marketplace issues happen if the online connectivity drops in the middle of a purchase, Microsoft wouldn’t know about those issues. That isn’t this case. It is a product they actively pulled from the store. In the case of pulling a product from the store, they should know that they should inform purchasers what is going on.
I believe it is justflight that is the distributor for BlackSquare, did you reach out to their support?
But the product was listed as one of the new entries for the week in the Marketplace, but then pulled after I purchased it. Why would I have to contact JustFlight to find out why Microsoft pulled it from the Marketplace?
I would also think this is more a justflight/blacksquare issue - I highly doubt that MS pulled the plane - for showing up or not showing up on a particular marketplace, always the creator is responsible for (exceptions are of course violations of the market place terms and rules). So pointing at Ms here is the wrong move if you ask me 
I’m not blaming anyone. I’m just trying to find out what happened. The 3rd party submits the addon to be ingested, but the addon has to go through DRM and entry into the Marketplace. This process is automated for 2024, but not for 2020, DRM encoding and putting into the Marketplace is still handled by the Marketplace team. So there could have been a product issue that JustFlight asked to have the product pulled, but they would have had to work with the Marketplace team for that. Or I have seen DRM issues with other products which was strictly a Microsoft thing that required pulling the product. Again, this is not about blaming. It is not complaining. I want the product. I am not looking for a refund. I just want to know what happened and when I can expect it. Will it be Monday, next Thursday, or is there some bigger issue that it might be months. I just don’t know what is going on with the purchase.
Asked around and got this:
“It seems that the Black Square Caravan was pulled from the Microsoft Flight Simulator marketplace due to compatibility issues with recent simulator updates1. Specifically, the mod had problems with the TDS GTN 750 after Sim Update 10, which caused modes to get stuck and altitude hold mode to fail1.
The developers at Black Square released an update to address these issues, but it appears that the mod was still problematic enough to warrant its removal from the marketplace”
Thank you.
Anytime. Their next release is the Piston Duke and Turbine Duke if you’re interested but no eta on the grand caravan unfortunately