Neuman and Wloch have said than they were on a ten-year project which obviously means a lot of DLC (and hopefully not the P3D manic twice a year updates/HF which break everything 😈). We may have an idea of what they could be in an interview Neuman gave last year. Not necessarily aircraft or sceneries... 

And there’s other data like, we know where the whales are, we know where the rhinos run around, we know where all the cars and the trains are – and that data is actually freely available.”

Neumann cites NASA’s data as an example, saying that the organisation has a map showing all of the world’s wildfires. “So, people ask me, could you do the Amazon fires right now? And it’s like, yup. And could I show the decay of the forests? I sure could,” he adds.

 

https://www.pcgamesn.com/microsoft-flight-simulator/open-source

 

 

Yes, they did say that MSFS is a 10 year project, remember that they started, as they have said, 5 years ago.

They’ll be busy enough for the next couple of years with VR, RayTracing, seasons etc. I think there’s no limit on what they can do with this sim. I think our limitations are bound to the potato hardware that some of us are still on. 

31 minutes ago, Carts85 said:

They’ll be busy enough for the next couple of years with VR, RayTracing, seasons etc. I think there’s no limit on what they can do with this sim. I think our limitations are bound to the potato hardware that some of us are still on. 

I agree the seasons should make a nice and profitable DLC and that it is a huge endeavour to cover the whole planet. Requiring a lot of work.

An update to DX12 won’t bring much revenue if any.

Now, a DLC carrying a live map of all the whales on Earth would be an instant success  🐳 💰!

Yeah I think DX12 and raytracing would fall under a version update rather than a DLC even though they would bring some rather big improvements I just don’t think they can be marketed as a DLC quite like a map of Whale locations.

On the question of DLCs I wonder whether Asobo will continue to develop airports beyond the 80 high level airports included. Seems like they could have a nice income stream there or is that not part of the roadmap given we have probably 100 third party developers out there ready to fill that void.

Edited July 7, 20205 yr by Carts85

13 minutes ago, Carts85 said:

 

On the question of DLCs I wonder whether Asobo will continue to develop airports beyond the 80 high level airports included. Seems like they could have a nice income stream there or is that not part of the roadmap given we have probably 100 third party developers out there ready to fill that void.

We can nitpick here or there, trees, waters, mesh etc. but what strikes me from the beginning is their appetite for innovation. They may release aircraft and sceneries but I also see a lot of products born from live data as quoted above (fires, floods, trains, ships even bird migration flows 😃 etc.), reconstruction of famous sites or city centers (didn’t they make some work on Machu Pichu for Hololens ?), etc.

The whole project of recreating an open world for our favorite hobby is fascinating but this is not, in my opinion, the only purpose (other simulation games, tourism promotion etc..). And DLC would, in this case, target simmers but not only simmers.

I hope they won't forget that there's always things to improve in the core flight sim features.

Just saw an article here (in German) that is about someone reporting that the "Ingame-Shop" would be called "Flight Marketplace", which allegedly would have freeware and payware content and the currency for payments would be called "Flight Coins".

The article also says that last night the "Flight Simulator Partner Program" web site had been online but has been taken down again.

1 hour ago, siggy said:

Just saw an article here (in German) that is about someone reporting that the "Ingame-Shop" would be called "Flight Marketplace", which allegedly would have freeware and payware content and the currency for payments would be called "Flight Coins".

The article also says that last night the "Flight Simulator Partner Program" web site had been online but has been taken down again.

Seen it all before

The Marketplace existing has been known for the while, you can see the tab on screenshots/videos showing the main menu. What we don't know is their plans for it.

Edited July 8, 20205 yr by Tuskin38

4 hours ago, siggy said:

Just saw an article here (in German) that is about someone reporting that the "Ingame-Shop" would be called "Flight Marketplace", which allegedly would have freeware and payware content and the currency for payments would be called "Flight Coins".

The article also says that last night the "Flight Simulator Partner Program" web site had been online but has been taken down again.

As a big fan of MS Flight, I see that as a nice gesture. 👌😃

-eelis-

Edited July 8, 20205 yr by eelis

On 7/7/2020 at 12:36 PM, Kopteeni said:

I hope they won't forget that there's always things to improve in the core flight sim features.

Thank you. +1000. Can’t be stressed enough…

On 7/7/2020 at 12:36 PM, Kopteeni said:

I hope they won't forget that there's always things to improve in the core flight sim features.

I am with you except...

Except that I don't want to have twice a year updates (or more !) like P3D has, breaking compability here and there for, at the end, marginal improvements. 

On 7/7/2020 at 8:35 AM, Wobbie said:

Yes, they did say that MSFS is a 10 year project, remember that they started, as they have said, 5 years ago.

Ten years from release 😉