Compliments from, "TheGrunt" over at the A2A Forums.Lockheed Martin has launched a new licensing scheme for their P3D with new 1.3 version release. You can now purchase P3D for just $49.95. So, monthly fee for developers and expensive professional purchase is no longer required.Here is the news announcement:http://www.prepar3d.com/news/lockheed-m ... -students/Here is the info for new 50 buck licence. Home use is now official!:http://www.prepar3d.com/prepar3d-academic/Version 1.3 release notes:http://www.prepar3d.com/prepar3d-versio ... hange-log/ My question is....Might this change PMDG's stance on whether or not to support their addons for P3D?

The main reason is licensing, not so much the actual market for it, at least as I understand it. That being said, as long as the LMCorp license doesn't meet up with PMDG's vision of life and potential liability, there's no deal.

While I welcome this move by LM, I checked the details on their site."The academic version of Prepar3D has an unobtrusive watermark in the top right corner of the simulation."How happy would you be flying the NGX with that in the corner of the screen.

How happy would you be flying the NGX with that in the corner of the screen.

Personally I don't think it's a big deal.. I fly in windowed mode anyway, so a watermark isn't gonna be a gamestopper for me. Might be worth it to do some research and find out how big the watermark is.Furthermore, I would guess that some bright soul might be able to find a way to remove the watermark.

It's on the FSX menu bar. If you hold down the [alt] button it disappears.

If PMDG manages to make a good deal with LM, this will be great news! I hope we might get a discount for PMDG airplanes for P3D, IF we own the FSX versions already, and IF PMDG manages to make a good deal of course.What I want in P3D:SLI supportshadows in the cockpitbetter coding for smoother experienceCTD fixesImproved graphics

I asked this aswell in another thread, Im not going to rush out and get p3d until it offers a significant advantage over fsx, but it would be nice to know if its a t least a possibility now that they offer a home license.

Guys I can't speak to the legal issues here - you'll have to wait for RSR for that, but I really don't see how this changes what he's said in the past. Something that's only available to undergraduate or lower students isn't a mass market commercial product to us - I can't buy a copy myself under those rules.

Its not really a "home license", its an academic license for students.EDIT: Looks like Tabs answered before me.

Guys I can't speak to the legal issues here - you'll have to wait for RSR for that, but I really don't see how this changes what he's said in the past. Something that's only available to undergraduate or lower students isn't a mass market commercial product to us - I can't buy a copy myself under those rules.

Any in house plans with LM to iron this out and maybe have a future version that caters to us?I hate the whole stupid licensing nonsense.

It's on the FSX menu bar. If you hold down the [alt] button it disappears.

.........But it comes back again soon after !....and is very unobtrusive.Fred.

Its not really a "home license", its an academic license for students.EDIT: Looks like Tabs answered before me.

It's actually LM's way of saying that Anyone can use it !......and yes it does say Home Use. ( just don't feel entertained by it..lol )Fred.

Disregard

It's all legalese... You see, it is very easy for you to tell that you don't use P3D for entertainment, but education. It is a bit harder for LM to find a way to offer P3D affordably, and so that you can use it at home, but at the same time, not having MS shut them down for competing with Flight.It is probably downright impossible though for a company like PMDG to sell their product so that it is neither a training tool (liabilities) nor an entertainment product (EULA problem). Consider how long did legalese keep us from the SDK... PMDG is not a company that has the size and power to put an inner team of lawyers on a specific task of finding a way, like I imagine LM does.Should you want to yell Orbx and FSDT at me, consider that neither of those are airplane add-on developers... liability concern would be basically non-existent.