My decision will be based, in part, on how much work it is to maintain MSFS and it's add-ons. With just P3D v4 (haven't moved to v5 due to TackPak) and XP, I find myself getting behind on keeping everything up to date.

I want a great civilian sim with all the bells and whistles plus an air combat sim. If we end up with good combat add-ons in MSFS, I could see eventually jettisoning P3D and XP. 

I've punted P3D and reformatted computer waiting for the 18th. Can't play P3D any longer after seeing videos when the NDA lifted. No way I'm going back to last gen.

Edited August 5, 20205 yr by VBHB

6 hours ago, F1le said:

OK guys I know this is mostly P3Dv5 forum,

Actually, this is (nearly) entirely the MSFS forum. P3Dv1,2,3,4,5 is down the listing for forums! 😉

In one year both sims will be forgotten. This isn’t even a fatality. It’s a brutality.

Well, aren't you just a charming little ray of sunshine! 😜

Unless MSFS is some sort of spectacular fail which is looking less and less likely, I say by next summer when most developers have their work in the sim, those on P3D or Xplane will be much much less, myself included. Heck, I can think of one big time aircraft developer that I foresee abandoning P3D all together at some point, which I predict will be before the end of 2021. They have hard enough time just keeping up with one sim as it is!

I'm just surprised QW hasn't made an announcement yet.. until their 787 fleet move to MSFS, i'll still hold onto P3D.. 

i think the only reson to hang on to other sims will be stuff like historic aircraft and aircraft that are not yet in fs.

I own all of the available flight Sims, and now there is only one on my drive, FS.

Either people only have 200 gig HDDs on their computer, or they enjoy throwing away $100s/$1000s or dollars of addons because of a new sim they have not even flown yet.

Odd.

You know what? I'm going to be radical and KEEP ALL THREE SIMS! X-Plane, P3Dv5 and MSFS. Please do not tell anyone, as it appears that this is a sin against the laws of man and nature.

(Btw, I did the math and MSFS will take up 8 DOLLARS worth of HDD storage space. I'm pretty sure most of you can afford that.)

10 hours ago, n4gix said:

Well, aren't you just a charming little ray of sunshine! 😜

He is, isn't he ?

Now,  see below what Randazzo wrote yesterday, with some  diplomacy. Between the lines, I cannot but read a message to the P3D team : move your behind or else. 

Prepar3D is a good platform and serves as a strong reminder how far a platform can evolve with proper investment, but by all measures it still has a way to go before I would consider it to be the fully modern engine we have been hoping for all of these years, because it still has a long tail of stale code dating back to BAO and the very early days of sim development for the PC.
 

26 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

it still has a long tail of stale code dating back to BAO and the very early days of sim development for the PC.

I'm wondering how long the tail of "stale code" is in MSFS. 😄 

Hook

I will never let go of XP11, it will not compete on my system with MSFS. Instead they will exist happily alongside each other 🙂

 

 

12 minutes ago, ThrottleUp said:

I will never let go of XP11

And you shouldn't.  I couldn't believe the number of people who uninstalled current sims (FSX, P3D, XPlane) on the basis of an announcement and a few screen shots and videos at the very beginning.

Don't delete your old sim.  You may find a use for it.

Hook

1 hour ago, Dominique_K said:

He is, isn't he ?

Now,  see below what Randazzo wrote yesterday, with some  diplomacy. Between the lines, I cannot but read a message to the P3D team : move your behind or else. 

Prepar3D is a good platform and serves as a strong reminder how far a platform can evolve with proper investment, but by all measures it still has a way to go before I would consider it to be the fully modern engine we have been hoping for all of these years, because it still has a long tail of stale code dating back to BAO and the very early days of sim development for the PC.
 

Just look at the update process of P3Dv5, whenever a new hotfix comes out, good luck of downloading the whole thing again (in case of v5 HF1), I mean is 2020 not 2008. Even X-Plane has a modern process to update sim, few clicks and done. 

Also Matjis from Aerosoft said the same thing, so I guess in the long run, MSFS will dominate if they keep supporting third party developers like how they do now.