Please do not hijack this thread... the original topic is a good one and your opinions on marketing strategy have not contributed much more than a better understanding of how you feel.

 

On the contrary, I would have thought that a prior knowledge of the pricing strategies of add-on vendors would be a substantial contribution to someone's decision to move from FSX to P3D, which is the topic we are dealing with here.

I certainly would NOT have purchased the P3D license if I had taken the time to find out beforehand that this would mean giving up all my PDMG and A2A products or face having to buy them all again.

 

Regards

Vincent

downscc, I really wasn't trying to be a jerk so apologies if my response came across ill-mannered. I get called a P3D fanatic touting P3D's benefits to some of my Xplane buddies, for what it's worth.

 

I'm a GA pilot real world and primarily in the sim as well. However, if you don't mind the challenge of old school /A navigation, but want really fantastic transport class airplanes in XP, have a look at FlyJSim 727 and 737. Really well done.

 

Now back on topic, and again this is mostly conjecture and purely my opinion. Given that a a couple of the big 3rd party players charge for P3D specific licenses (right/wrong/indifferent) and there is some chatter suggesting v3 is coming and maybe sooner than later, I personally would hold off. P3D offers some very nice enhancements to FSX. But while the platforms do appear to be diverging, they are more similar than different at this moment. Personally, I'd be upset if I spent a ton of money on V2 and compliant add-ins right now only to find 6 or 12 months down the road that I had to repeat the process for whatever V3 requires. Again this is assuming that I have a well running FSX installed.

Update...

 

 

I installed p3d and updated the aerosoft airbus extended to the "non extended???" As well as bought the pmdg 777. The software is amazing.

 

I wasn't expecting all the graphical stuff to run as well as it does. Heck, the sim itself is much more powerful.

 

I had issues with stuttering but found limiting my fps through the in game limiter to 30 and turning down some setting dramatically improved them.

 

The only issue I am having is couatl is starting up with p3d only half the time.

 

Also I got this weird error thst I haven't looked into. I'll be randomly flying and all of the sudden, p3d "stops working" and it CTDs. Oh well. This last error I with the airbus from aerosoft and it happened once in the air and once at fsdt KIAH.