This is by no means and absolutely not intened as a dig at the reputable devs that have been supplying our flight sim communities for years with very good products…
The whole marketplace is just one big obtrusive advert that I wish I could completely remove from the MSFS UI altogether. The only real questionable purpose it serves, supposedly, is for letting xbox users download addons.
Microsoft could have quite easily created a specific category, allocated or dedicated a small corner of the MS Store for flight sim addons. By doing that, all microsoft account holders would’ve been able access it, but more importantly, everyone would have been getting meaningful “proof of purchase” receipts by default.
Here in the UK, it is illegal to sell anything to anyone without providing them with a proof of purchase, which must include not only the date and time, but money spent and type of transaction, whether that be cash, cc etc.
lol… only a matter of time until a flight simming lawyer finds, that after spending money on a purchase, they have received no addon product nor have they been given any proof of purchase. poof, it’s gone.
No part of any terms, no matter how big you are as a company or how much clout you may have, can get you out of the hole you could find yourself in. Especially, when we’re potentially talking about +tens or even hundreds of thousand’s of customers.
I feel sorry for the folks that have no option but to use the marketplace.
However, I feel ms need to start giving out proper receipts for purchases made in the marketplace, instead of fobbing people off. That’s where most of the negativity is coming from and rightly so.