It's the nature of competition. A third party developer just has to make sure they're better than whatever Laminar Research eventually releases, or be prepared to innovate if LR releases something better than what they're offering.

 

I don't think it gets that deep, to be honest.

 

Backing up a bit, I still think the biggest reason why 3rd party developers haven't really jumped in with vigor is simply the (lack of) active marketshare of X-Plane vs. other platforms. The way Laminar perpetually develops X-Plane does not help, but we'd be going down the wrong road if we thought that was the biggest reason why we don't see much participation across the board.

 

Anyway, lets see what the post 10.20 world holds for us.

I don't think it gets that deep, to be honest.

 

Backing up a bit, I still think the biggest reason why 3rd party developers haven't really jumped in with vigor is simply the (lack of) active marketshare of X-Plane vs. other platforms. The way Laminar perpetually develops X-Plane does not help, but we'd be going down the wrong road if we thought that was the biggest reason why we don't see much participation across the board.

 

Anyway, lets see what the post 10.20 world holds for us.

 

Agreed

 

Developer's will go where they feel the money is. I personaly wish Laminar would just concentrate on the meat and leave the vegetables and the desert for the 3rd parties be it payware and or freeware. Two heads or should I say a thousand heads are better then one.

 

It's not like fsx's weather system or atc were anything to brag about, or that there is a heck of alot of choice of 3rd parties when it comes to these two things in the FSX world. Why? because it's a limited market and X-plane's market is much more limited at the moment.

 

Austin needs to colaberate with some developer's who have a lot more experiance and expertiese when it comes to certain things, give them confidence that theyre investment will be profitable and I'm sure that Austin has the pocket to achieve that. The amount of patches arent the blocker, the confidence in finacial feisability are.

Just to be clear, the title of this thread is quite misleading. 10.2 has not been declared final. In fact, 10.2 RC-2 is due out quite soon. We are still on RC-1.

Just to be clear, the title of this thread is quite misleading. 10.2 has not been declared final. In fact, 10.2 RC-2 is due out quite soon. We are still on RC-1.

yes I know about RC2(found this out a few days ago on Ben's blog), I created this thread because my copy of xplane says 10.20 after updating days ago. It originally said 10.20rc1 but now it says 10.20.