I was wondering about the business model of MSFS and if everyone brought this product, how does the company going forward, continues down the current path regarding financing all of these free products. As what I have read, this product is to evolve and grow over time hence Microsoft/Absorb are dis…

I guess what I don’t want/hate to see is… MS/AB eventually deciding “F it” “this is a to hard basket” get it to a “workable” state and simply walk away from this venture all together and we are left with another FSX for developers to have to work around roadblocks on a half built platform and also …

They’ve already committed to supporting the sim for 10 years. I’m also sure that not all future expansions will be free (for example, I would expect for instance the ‘helicopter expansion’ to be paid). World updates and Sim updates are just that; updates to the core sim (and thus should be free). …

No. And stop it with this paid nonsense.

Money wise, Microsoft and Asobo are safe. With the size of this project, it would not have started if they knew it could not finance itself in the long run. Microsoft announced that they planned to have certain addon packages (DLC) that would add to what new feature comes out. A great example provi…

The % of each sale made in the market place that Microsoft takes will also help sustain a good revenue stream in addition to those consuming the sim through some kind of subscription platform. I’ll accept specific DLC packages as a paid option, they need to be feature sets rather than environment o…

It can’t be. Already discussed ad nauseum here: [image] Why I think Asobo should charge for updates General Discussion Asobo have said that they’re going to keep developing the sim for as long as potentially ten years. This will create significant cost for them in terms …

No, I don’t see how this makes any sense. But if you want to pay for 3rd party content you’re more than welcome to. With regard to updates, yes, they need to be vastly better at QC. But updates being optional at this stage might do more harm than good in having a user base on a fragmented series of…

I just thought of a paid idea as incentive to produce a product that works properly, an option to update so you can go back to the previous version that was workable and I mean paid as almost a donation like in the 5’s or early tens.. I mean it all adds up when millions of users are using this produ…

I think Microsoft and Asobo know enough about the lifetime of the project and development efforts this time around to be able to finish and have a final product. You cant have a half broken software for corporate and commercial licenses. On top, they mentioned this would be a 10 year project, so th…

Should each new update, be it world or sim. Be an optional paid option?

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ClayishCoast9 February 23, 2021, 8:38pm 8

It can’t be.

Already discussed ad nauseum here: