2 hours ago, Wobbie said:

Dave, Asobo is a developer, contracted by Microsoft to develop the game, not to sell it. They do no selling of the game whatsoever, with no sales or marketing platform.

Your argument that Asobo must maintain good sales numbers and to make a profit from Microsofts is invalid.

I don't pretend to know the legal arrangements that Asobo has with Microsoft, and I doubt that you do either.

If Asobo, or Microsoft, or whoever, don't have the sales and profit from MSFS that they expect, then I doubt that it will be fully supported for 10 years. 

I really hope that it is supported for that long, and improved and expanded as well.  I'm just not counting on it.

Dave

1 minute ago, dave2013 said:

I don't pretend to know the legal arrangements that Asobo has with Microsoft, and I doubt that you do either.

If Asobo, or Microsoft, or whoever, don't have the sales and profit from MSFS that they expect, then I doubt that it will be fully supported for 10 years. 

I really hope that it is supported for that long, and improved and expanded as well.  I'm just not counting on it.

Dave

No need for any legal knowledge.. One is a developer, paid by contract for developing, the other makes money by selling.

We know what happened with ACES Gaming Studio that was no longer performing. They got closed. However, their situation was different, as they were a division of Microsoft, not a contracted games developer. I suppose that, in the future, Microsoft can end the contract with Asobo, or the contract can expire, the sim will still be supported by add-on developers.

Anyone would think people here want the contract to end reading some responses here.

Rather than be pleased that commitment is being made to the hobby, let's just say they are lying about the number of copies sold and if that doesn't work then we'll just assume most of them got a refund.

 

11 hours ago, JoeFackel said:

But what when Microsoft may pull the plug on the AZURE stream in 5 years?

You've got to be kidding.

Regards

bs

On 10/3/2020 at 9:26 AM, Scottoest said:

sim has been in development for 7.5 year

Does that mean we have only 2.5 years of support left, out of the 10 mentioned? After all, Its been on development for 7.5 now............j/k

Edited October 5, 20205 yr by CarlosF

Its so strange. I had install issues in the Alpha and was unable to download for a few days. But after they did a fix, I never had problems again, and I have probably done a full reinstall about 9 or 10 times, now.

One wonders what it is that makes a difference.

On 10/5/2020 at 10:18 PM, bean_sprout said:

You've got to be kidding.

Regards

bs

Indeed a crazy idea ... as MS would stop support for an Flightsimulator out of the blue.

1 minute ago, JoeFackel said:

Indeed a crazy idea ... as MS would stop support for an Flightsimulator out of the blue.

 

Remember ACES?

Well, that was a bit different, as ACES belonged to Microsoft. Asobo is contracted by Microsoft to support MSFS & other games, if any. Microsoft is marketing & supplying the backend to the sim. 

16 minutes ago, Wobbie said:

Microsoft is marketing & supplying the backend to the sim

So you see the weak point in ASOBO's claim THEY will support the sim 10 years.

Pull the plug of your internet connection to see whats left from the scenery (don't forget to deactivate rolling cache).

And thats the problem with the claim that the stunnign MSFS scenery comes without a price. It actually with costs: you are only renting it. You need a fast internet connection and whenever it breaks down or MS switches off their scenery server all the gloriness is gone. Sad, but true. 

Edited October 7, 20205 yr by JoeFackel

Thats neat that they used Forzas engine and tweaked it for use in MSFS. Great link thanks!