Hi 

 

I have been a long FSX sufferer, but I am looking at Prepar3d simulator with great interest   With regards to buying it, if I purchased the $9.95 subscription, does this give you the full version ?  Of do you need the $199 license plus the $9.95 sub, or am I over complicating things. 

 

 

Paul,

 

technically, all three versions are equivalent with the only exception of an inobtrusive watermark in the academic version. Notably, you don't have to have the $199 version for purchasing the subscription. I had the subscription before (journal code based, i.e. free, for 1 month) and use the professional version now.

 

The difference is the purpose you use it for, i.e. development, or undergraduate teaching etc. There is a table on the website stating who qualifies for which version. Purposes are essentially non-overlapping, as a result there are no upgrade paths between the three licenses.

 

Kind regards, Michael

 

Paul,

 

technically, all three versions are equivalent with the only exception of an inobtrusive watermark in the academic version. Notably, you don't have to have the $199 version for purchasing the subscription. I had the subscription before (journal code based, i.e. free, for 1 month) and use the professional version now.

 

The difference is the purpose you use it for, i.e. development, or undergraduate teaching etc. There is a table on the website stating who qualifies for which version. Purposes are essentially non-overlapping, as a result there are no upgrade paths between the three licenses.

 

Kind regards, Michael

 

Many thanks Michael,

 

But with the subscription you get all the updates and the full version, where as the 49.99 version is for current version only ? and you would have to pay 49.99 again for the version 2 ?

 

I have looked at the tables on the website, hence why I am here.  I am looking to buy a version that gives me updates as the software progresses. 

Paul,

 

according to my best knowledge there are no continuous small updates at all, only point and mayor updates with time spans > 1/2 year in between. I believe (but don't know for sure, as I don't own it) even the subscription version for 1.4 has been the same all the time since the release of 1.4.

 

LM did not yet announce price details for the next major release 2.0. However they already said academic users will have to pay the full price for 2.0 (which is certainly justified). Prices for users of other versions are yet to be announced, to my knowledge.

 

Kind regards, Michael

Paul,

 

according to my best knowledge there are no continuous small updates at all, only point and mayor updates with time spans > 1/2 year in between. I believe (but don't know for sure, as I don't own it) even the subscription version for 1.4 has been the same all the time since the release of 1.4.

 

LM did not yet announce price details for the next major release 2.0. However they already said academic users will have to pay the full price for 2.0 (which is certainly justified). Prices for users of other versions are yet to be announced, to my knowledge.

 

Kind regards, Michael

 

 

Ok thanks again Michael, will keep monitoring and see what happens.  But might try 1.4 anyway 

I have the v1.4 Academic, and it's fine...and you can hardly see the "watermark" in the upper right corner.

cthiggin

I went for the academic version and I am over the moon with it, the scenery I have on fairly low, but its totally stable, no stutters unlike FSX.  I was really fed up using FSX, and this has to be the best way forward, I am now getting proper simulated weather first time for years, better all round performance   I purchased the migration tool, and have all my addons working 100%.  I have installed some of my addon airports, but to be honest some of the stock scenery is good enough for me.  But even my EGLL addon is giving great performance. 

 

Anyone who is looking to change I highly recommend trying this out, it is superb.  I know there isnt alot of support yet, but for my hardware I have all my saitek stuff working, rudder pedals, flight yoke 2x throttle quadrant, even got my  VRinsight MCP working without any bother,I also bought the Virtual avionics cdu to run on a tablet.  

 

Well done LM, brilliant product, wish I had found you sooner.  Looking forward to the version 2.0  Anyway back to studying.