LM has said nothing about this, but usually a major version upgrade of an app does cost something. The question is whether an upgrade from 1.4 will be less expensive than buying P3d 2.0 as a new acquisition. I'd be surprised if there was a cheaper upgrade path for either the developer license (which is a monthly fee anyway) or the educational license.

Actually they have - on several occasions they have indicated that there will be an "upgrade" path or the Pro and Developer licenses - meaning there will be a reduced cost upgrade. The Academic will not have an upgrade path - NOW - they never explained whether THAT meant that Academic users would pay full price for the upgrade OR whether there would even BE a V2.0 Academic.

 

My guess is there will be a full price upgrade.

 

Vic

Actually they have - on several occasions they have indicated that there will be an "upgrade" path or the Pro and Developer licenses - meaning there will be a reduced cost upgrade. The Academic will not have an upgrade path - NOW - they never explained whether THAT meant that Academic users would pay full price for the upgrade OR whether there would even BE a V2.0 Academic.

 

My guess is there will be a full price upgrade.

 

Vic

 

Well that's going to be interesting. Looking at the current Pro price and the fact that the user base has grown I'm going to be a gambling man and say the price will be at a minimum of $299.99.

I agree it will certainly be that much.

 

 

the price will be at a minimum of $299.99.

 

Maybe, but V 1.4 sells for $199. I can see a new purchase of V2.0 being more than $199, but I doubt that the upgrade price would be $299. There would have to be a lot of eye candy, bells and whistles in V2.0 for LM to sell the Pro version for $100 more than V1.4.

Given that Orbx seems to be highly involved with P3D with both feet, and probably have some inside knowledge, it would make sense that there is some sort of academic path continuing, or even a full academic price again, which I have no problem with if there is going to be significant enough changes to make a dent in performance and the other problems that plague it solved. 

Orbx and all these other 3PD would not have put so much time and resources and even encourage P3D support and installs if it was going to be out of the reach of academic simmers. 

Orbx and all these other P3D would not have put so much time and resources and even encourage P3D support and installs if it was going to be out of the reach of academic simmers. 

 

A very good point Dave and supported by the public release of 64bit development tools. But this I am certain of, Orbx and other developers are under a strict "non disclosure" agreement with LM, so we must continue to amuse ourselves with conjecture until some of us at least will be able to write here "see I told you so". LOL

I believe that what happens with LM will happen with any company who bought from MS the rights for ESP use in their simulation platforms.

 

I am beggining to understand Flight1's position...

 

I was happy to see my other sim - ELITE - partnership with Flight1 and LM P3D here:

 

http://www.flyelite.ch/en/elite/press_pdf/08_08_13.pdf

 

but probably selling their solution to use P3d's visuals for the home user to use with it's PC-based ELITE Premium software is not possible due to the EULAs...

 

P.S.: On that platform they still use their flight and systems modelling,and not P3Ds/ESPs flight dynamics. They just inject their aircraft and weather into the excellent scenery provided by an ESP-based simulator.

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. I suggest there may be more than one version again, with the full "Pro/Commercial" version in the thousand of dollar plus range.

 

 

Any professional group will want a considerable advantage when paying out thousands of dollars. That would work for LM  if also tied into picking up sales for the real airplanes they make. Which will again exclude us, regardless of price.

As the topic title states: "Good News from LM"

 

Indeed....I'm looking forward to whatever they deliver. 

 

G

I could see a high end version bundled with hardware, but the the P3d 2.0 product line will probably look similar to the present offering.