That’s how companies like Adobe work with their big CMS platforms, they have example projects that you download and build via Maven and that’s how people new to it get started and up to speed with development.
This is an example, because the industry came to realization that building community with love is what builds support, not forced measures. and anyways, pirates won’t buy a game because it has extreme protection, it’s about ideology. so what iam trying to say is that there is difference between anti-pirate measures, and protecting copyrighted projects, as this topic is discussing, as martial from asobo said in today’s dev stream explaining the encryption purpose: “competition”.
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I understand the business side reasons for the protection.
However, as a long time freeware developer and modder of flight sims for the last two decades, I am afraid that such measures will have serious impacts on modding community. And it is this community which cares and is able to fix many issues (for free).
I mean, how are we supposed to fix /mod aircraft if we do not have access to the files?
Lately I feel like this franchise is turning its back on this community.
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Worse, there’s a long term business detriment here Asobo seems to be missing entirely.
With FS24 they brought onboard as 1st party several studios that learned in FS20 and greatly improved the platform. Newsflash, gentlemen. They didn’t learn from Asobo SDK Docs which are infamously incomplete and/or incorrect. They learned by looking at Your WORK, Asobo, not at what passes as documentation at Your studio.
Now nobody will learn a thing and in 3 years Jorg and Seb will be puzzled, “Why there’s no fresh dev talent emerging in FS24? Where’s our next Gotfriends and Working Title?”
Thanks to this fateful misstep of pivoting towards a walled garden eco-system there will be none. But corpos usually don’t think that far ahead.
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I cannot fathom why MS / Asobo identified an absolute need to encrypt all MSFS 2024 aircraft content.
From whom are you protecting these assets?
Is your fear that the community might make use of them in order to improve them as FBW once did with the MSFS 2020 A320Neo as well as countless other improvement mods?
The SAAB S340B is in desperate need of attention, and I for one was looking forward to this aircraft a great deal, and yet reliant as we are on developers to address issues means that we will undoubtedly be stuck with irritatingly sub-par products.
Additionally, we cannot repaint encrypted aircraft with the result that fewer liveries reduce interest and viability. I stopped livery creation at a shade under 500 MSFS 2020 community liveries. That’s your fault, not mine.
Essentially, I’d argue that MSFS 2024 is not fit for purpose, at least not for serious flight simulation enthusiasts and therein lies the issue - is this platform for dedicated simmers because it very much it feels as if you have done stalwart flight simmers an intentional disservice.
A consequence of MSFS 2024 taking the (undeserved) limelight is that MSFS 2020 has been left to flounder with products remaining broken since the last AAU update in October, for example the INI Builds A320Neo.
This might be mistaken for another intentional blow to the many dedicated flight simulator enthusiasts who have been the long standing founding servants of this genre since it all began, and for me that was in the mid-1980’s on an IBM PC-XT
Software pirates.
Is your fear that the community might make use of them in order to improve them as FBW once did with the MSFS 2020 A320Neo as well as countless other improvement mods?
They don’t care about community improvement mods like this because they pose no threat to profits. They’re free, after all.
Additionally, we cannot repaint encrypted aircraft with the result that fewer liveries reduce interest and viability
I’d wager that, since there’s a button to buy liveries right in the selection menu, they want more control over the livery market so they can charge for them.
MSFS 2020 has been left to flounder with products remaining broken since the last AAU update in October,
Did anyone really believe that 2020 would continue to receive the same level of support after FS24 came out? Especially when we all figured out the shiny new hotness was a dumpster fire? If 2020 hasn’t been sunset already, it will be before long.
Asobo said it was to maintain “fair play” in career mode. Nevermind it’s single player, but I guess there are leaderboards or whatever.
No, I certainly don’t expect it to get the same level of support. But considering Asobo said FS2020 would get, what, 10 years of support (i.e. server life), they still have about 5 years to go. Minimum. And since it’s looking like it will be at least a year of development before '24 is ready for release, it’s really nice to have '2020 to use. Plus I’m still buying occasional things so MS is still making money off it. Obviously they want everyone on '24, but with it still in development I doubt they will straight jump ship from the continued revenue source that is '2020.
I can honestly say that I’ve never had a need or desire to tweak any plane, in FS 2020 or 24, stock or 3rd party.
I wish I could say the same but coming from the better part of two decades of flying professionally and many thousands of hours in dozens of aircraft types, there are things I just can’t ignore.
Common sim issues include lack of inertia, aggressive control response, poor ground handling, poor engine behaviour, over-powered aircraft, poor stall behaviour, poor slip/skid behaviour, and so on.
The default aircraft in FS24 in particular are lacking in most of these areas, some to large extent. A few fly more aggressively and are more overpowered than some dedicated aerobatic RC aircraft I used to fly in competitions and that just isn’t right.
Aside from that, I’ve been messing with flightsim config files since some time in the 90s and it has turned into a bit of a hobby.
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They also said most 2020 addons would just work, and the FS24 marketplace has been shut for two months because that was a lie.
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They’re treating this game too much like an mmo which is making it less fun. Why are there no difficulty options for career mode? Can’t turn any of the assistances on/off to make it easier or more challenging. Can’t create our own missions, can’t fly any custom planes.
What is their plan for this? It’s not even multiplayer if there is no traffic in career mode.
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Software pirates?
We need the model files for repainting because on their own model are pretty meaningless, and the config files to make changes to the flight dynamics, and panel files would be nice.
Essentially, we don’t need the whole aircraft.
I expected MSFS to be supported for a while longer, obviously without new releases.
Some users may not upgrade, especially given the need for high speed internet and the complexity of the controls. I’m sticking with it because it’s pretty darn good, and my nicest aircraft are available.
To leave it broken, however, is extremely disappointing. Whomever thinks it’s OK to break something in the last update without addressing it is way off beam.