Two questions:
- Are these only the third party developers recognized by Asobo, or does this include all third party developers, who may or may not be in communication with Asobo, that have expressed their opinion on the matter?
- In order to improve third party access to the SDK and to extend the number of developers (which i’m sure we can all agree is a good thing), shouldn’t an emphasis be placed on the developers that currently cannot bring their addons into the sim? Sure, the ones that are already in the game might want to continue the status quo, but is that the right thing to do if it means it locks out other developers? Wouldn’t a middle ground be more favourable?
As for security, I still don’t see how sandboxing improves anything, considering a user is infinitely more likely to run malicious code during addon installation than while the addon is ran by FS2020. But, then again, i’m a nobody so Asobo doesn’t need to explain themselves to me, I suppose. It wouldn’t even be an issue if it wasn’t limiting addon capability. And, again, @CptLucky8 has proposed solutions on how sandboxing can be maintained whilst enabling dll-like functionality, all the more reason why I personally think he should be brought into the discussion: