A few days ago I bought in marketplace a Carenado plane, you can only buy it there. I bought it because it can be used in carrer mode, I searched it for some of the companies that I have created and it does not appear. Curiously, in the EFB the logo appears, but it is useless. Or I’m doing it wrong
Hello and good day. I wanted to make a suggestion, that I think, would greatly improve the user experience «QoL», when browsing the market store. In my case, the Xbox one.
Every time I go to take a look, on a category, the first thing I do, is to remove some developers partners, because I am not interested in their products. It would be wonderful, if we could «stick» the preferences on the market store.
As I have already written; I simply want to ignore some developers and some add-ons. The need to remove the pollution every time; after all this years, that has become a tiresome endeavor. A PC/ Xbox market store preferences save function; it would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards to all
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I suspect that your request (which has been echoed by many) will fall on deaf ears.
Microsoft is marketing all their partner products (because they make money from selling them) and like all advertisers, they promote those products without giving the consumer any option to hide them other than to change the channel or turn the page.
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Hello @Inboundf1l1p3, there is a Official Microsoft Flight Simulator > Wishlist topic for this request:
Steam is a notable exception to this, they give you full control over hiding either individual titles or developers!
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Perhaps ‘all’ was the wrong word.
I am 100% sure that the product team is totally invested in making the MSFS 2024 MP somewhere that we all want to spend money. Aren’t you?
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It;s not like the product has already been out for ca. 9 months
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The whole point of the MSFS 2020/2024 product team is to make sure that there is a ROI. How the flip can the MP team justify their position right now. Just don’t get it.
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The main point is for the sim to make money for its partners and shareholders.
Keeping the consumer happy is simply a means to that end. Balancing end-user satisfaction (perceived value) with shareholder satisfaction (ROI) is not an easy task.
Stick around the forum and you’ll understand how difficult.
More important than us consumers at least.
Not facilitating shovelware quality addons would be a start.
I notice in the poll that one question, often asked by marketeers doing product research, is conspicuous by its absence.
Would you recommend this service to a friend?
My answer to that is based on there being only one or two positives, and a long list of negatives.
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Because the wish to Hide developers whose work we don’t care for hasn’t been implemented (and probably never will), I decided to create the positive inverse of that wish by asking for our ability to ‘favorite’ developers and also prioritize those developer’s work.
I’m waiting for it to get approved.
I can’t see how it would help Map view for airports but that doesnt work at all anymore anyway.
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They may not do that either, as they will most likely know from this thread what it will be used for. I’m not even sure how it would work in practice. The layout of the marketplace is pretty abysmal, which is another question that was not asked in the poll. I get promoted products that I already own.
If I were to favourite a particular developer, would they always appear at the top of the “list”? Currently there are these huge, obnoxious banners that are so big you can only see 2.5 of them on my screen. Beneath that are smaller ones. I think they should all be that smaller size, and preferrably Asobo should add some customisation options where you can choose how the products are presented. Think of the content library, where you can choose to view bundlers or drill down into a bundle to see its individual packages.
It got approved and I wrote in the post that it was the intentional positive inverse of a previous wish.
My thought is simply that one could sort new products by price or by alphabetical as now but you could also apply a master sort option that shows favorite developers first (alphabetized or priced or whatever).
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Ah, I hadn’t noticed that it got approved. How individuals choose to use that is their business. Looks like I will have to post my poll elsewhere.
I would like an option where I could permanently exclude certain developers from my marketplace. I would also like the Icon sizes to be smaller (much, much smaller) in that silly top row that is always showing the exact same planes.
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I first asked for that over three years ago. I don’t think it will happen. they don’t want us to have that ability.
In a physical store we could just not go to the part of the store that sells stuff we dont want; we would go where what we want is sold. The online marketplace is more aakin to a bargain bin where treasures are mixed with everything else in a giant bin.
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OMG, they closed that down quick. What a pity I would have really liked to have seen the result of that marketplace vote.
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The thread is locked, but the poll remains open I think. That’s for the best.
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If that is the case could you still put in an explanation about it and a link to let others vote on there?
It seems like we are fine to discuss the marketplace as long as we don’t discuss the UI design in the form of a poll.
If MS/Asobo want some “honest” feedback on the Marketplace I would recommend they include a question in future polls that asks for feedback on the UI design.
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