Ah Paul thanks my friend your always a great help to Me, really appreciate it and good news too.   :wink2:

I think you're right on, Rob. I will bet that Steve is short-changing the sales potential of his Fixer.

Carl may well be right about the headlines - they will surely hit all of the forums out there.

 

I will also bet that this release will be the beginning of the end of DX9 for the MS FSX Flight Sim. It impacts the very core of all of the complaints that we've had over the years. That smoothness and the better graphics are what all that tweaking has been about. We're still tweaking, but we're getting pretty close to the FSX Nirvana. One doesn't need 30fps anymore to have a smooth experience. Couple it with a reliable, capable and fast machine, and we are there.

All, I just posted on Steve's FSX Analysis page that I thought Steve should investigate the eCommerce solutions for distribution and cost, THEN take the cost (even if it is the highest) of what one of them may take AND add it to the price he would like to get. I don't think anyone waiting for this release will/would be upset to see Steve get fairly compensated for all the work he has done (for free) and is doing. IMHO.....

All, I just posted on Steve's FSX Analysis page that I thought Steve should investigate the eCommerce solutions for distribution and cost, THEN take the cost (even if it is the highest) of what one of them may take AND add it to the price he would like to get. I don't think anyone waiting for this release will/would be upset to see Steve get fairly compensated for all the work he has done (for free) and is doing. IMHO.....

Agreed, I just want to pay for it and use it ASAP.

 

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Yes, after a couple of OOMs on short VFR flights in England today using the PMDG 737NGX, I think it's time for me to seriously think about "upgrading" to DX10 if this new utility can deliver the goods :smile:

Why wait for the fixer and just go ahead and dip your toe into the water now?

I have already "dipped my toe in the water" several months ago. I would rather wait for the fixer so that I can get everything done automatically. Until that time, I will keep tweaking the Scenery Library to compensate :smile:

That's what I mean in my previous message. Setting up a whole e-sales web site or publishing a software on a large simulation shop is time consuming. Accepting paypal paiement is easy, but believe me, if you don't automate anything, I predict that delivery will be slow... Need to take paiement emails into account, generate some type of install key, send email with product key and links to download, etc... Again, even with a simple paypal solution, will either take weeks to be online or will be totally manual with related customer dissatisfaction...

 

Don't misunderstand my sayings : I am really happy of Steve's amazing work so far and will buy the fixer as soon as it is available. But I will probably not be alone and manual sales is time consuming.

 

Chris

 

I think Steve should reach out to Joe Stearns, the author of the Addit! Pro utility. Joe does exactly what you have described, and while I don't think Joe has the traffic that Steve will (certainly, not the initial rush), he may have some pointers to help Steve out. I always advocate building right-sized bridges, and setting up a full-blown ecommerce site seems like overkill. 

author of the Addit! Pro utility

 

I have Joe's product, it's handy tool but wish he would keep developing ... got a long list of things I'd like to add.

 

DX10 fixer - 100,000 legit sales (out of 4,000,000 FSX sales copies and about 8,000,000 legit+hacked copies) at $10 each = $1M - that might be big enough to want a little overkill   Steve's product is a little different than your typical 3rd party Add-on, it's a FSX core changing product.  Personally, I'd plan for a big bridge as I think 100,000 sales is conservative ... and some form of DRM will be key to it's revenue potential.

Yeah, if this DX10 fix truly works well, nearly every FSX owner will want it.

Best to use a publisher if there is really that sales potential. Even if they take a cut, $1 million sales is pretty freaking awesome and plenty of room to give a cut. They will have the experience and the bandwidth to handle the onslaught. 

 

Come to think of it, hes been working closely with FTX i believe, so perhaps they could do something with him, which is essentially the flightsimstore

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I saw those post but looking for some pmdg official statement, I dont think they support dx10

 

Correct, PMDG even suggest to turn off DX10 in their Introduction manual.  Ironic, because DX10 is going to help out with VAS and the 777 seems to want A LOT of VAS (trying loading the Checklist, that took 400MB VAS on my setup).

 

But having said that DX10 cockpit shadows work fine ... haven't tested all the lights yet but I'd be surprised if they didn't work correctly regardless of DX mode used (A2A C-172 lights work regardless so I'd expect the same level of quality from PMDG).

 

 

DX10 fixer - 100,000 legit sales (out of 4,000,000 FSX sales copies and about 8,000,000 legit+hacked copies) at $10 each = $1M - that might be big enough to want a little overkill   Steve's product is a little different than your typical 3rd party Add-on, it's a FSX core changing product.  Personally, I'd plan for a big bridge as I think 100,000 sales is conservative ... and some form of DRM will be key to it's revenue potential.

 

Your math makes for a big bridge, yes: 100,000 emails would be a ######!!!   :lol:

 

 

Your math makes for a big bridge

 

I have no idea what Steve plans to charge so I'm just making an educated guess at the numbers.

 

There will always be DX9 hold outs so I should factor in that DX10 existing and converts might be between 50-70% of the sales+hacked (number will vary based on how effective DX10 fixer is).  So lets low ball it at 50% ... 8M * 0.5 = 4M potential ... 100,000 legit sales = 2.5% market ... seems very reasonable conservative estimate to me.

Correct, PMDG even suggest to turn off DX10 in their Introduction manual. 

 Yeah that's true, Rob,but look at the date on Ryan's doc. It simply doesn't apply any more. Even without the Fixer - in many/most areas of the sim - the patched DX10 is better than DX9 now.