That means nothing. The marketplace version is the stable version, which doesn't work anymore, so they want to prevent hordes of people complaining on discord about that (which already is happening...). Don't read anything else into that.

So this means Xbox users cant fly the FBW a320. if i'm correct.

Because it;s freeware this does not hurt Microsoft financialy but it hurts it's reputation.

The partnership between FBW and Microsoft was announced with a lot of fanfare (By Asobo and MS) and now their partner says "you did not deliver, we dont want to be part of that untill you have got your act together"

This is a better move then upvoting an item.

Just now, hansb57 said:

So this means Xbox users cant fly the FBW a320. if i'm correct.

Because it;s freeware this does not hurt Microsoft financialy but it hurts it's reputation.

The partnership between FBW and Microsoft was announced with a lot of fanfare (By Asobo and MS) and now their partner says "you did not deliver, we dont want to be part of that untill you have got your act together"

This is a better move then upvoting an item.

I thought the FBW wasn't available for XBox anyway, but I might be wrong.

4 minutes ago, hansb57 said:

This is a better move then upvoting an item.

I wouldn't read too much into it from either side, or try to make anyone the bad guys.

What some people don't get is that when we complain, we are not "hating" on Asobo or wishing their demise, it's the opposite. We want them to succeed, but at the same time these updates are becoming VERY VERY painful.

I'm sure FBW has a lot more smarts than most of us independent airport devs, so they will probably figure it out, because they have so many people working on the project. Imagine how teams of 1, 2, or 3 people feel after these updates. It's like someone dunking your head in the water and holding it there.

 

Edited July 31, 20214 yr by Alpine Scenery

SU5 is starting to become a fiasco and a bit of an embarrassment for Microsoft.

And the next victim of SU5: https://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/165563-simple-traffic-an-introduction/page/2/&tab=comments#comment-1050795

3 minutes ago, AnkH said:

And the next victim of SU5: https://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/165563-simple-traffic-an-introduction/page/2/&tab=comments#comment-1050795

The encrypted the files for the AI traffic?

It's almost like they intentionally want to lock out any community effort in that area.

Shame on MS.

2 minutes ago, AnkH said:

And the next victim of SU5: https://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/165563-simple-traffic-an-introduction/page/2/&tab=comments#comment-1050795

My God this is terrible news 😩

5 minutes ago, Ixoye said:

My God this is terrible news 😩

Meh, it overpriced and used the word not allowed default generic aircraft models.

Yeah protentional revenue lost for Aerosoft, but meh.

8 minutes ago, Ixoye said:

My God this is terrible news 😩

Just now, Tuskin38 said:

Meh, it overpriced and used the word not allowed default generic aircraft models.

Yeah protentional revenue lost for Aerosoft, but meh.

There were community groups working on free tools for model matching and AI traffic.  Encrypting the related files would lock them out as well.

Edited July 31, 20214 yr by marsman2020

1 minute ago, Tuskin38 said:

Meh, it overpriced and used the word not allowed default generic aircraft models.

Yeah protentional revenue lost for Aerosoft, but meh.

It is again not about the addon, but about the statement this gives on the state of MSFS after SU5...

1 minute ago, Tuskin38 said:

Meh, it overpriced and used the word not allowed default generic aircraft models.

Yeah protentional revenue lost for Aerosoft, but meh.

Encrypted traffic files will put an end to freeware also,

3 minutes ago, Ixoye said:

Encrypted traffic files will put an end to freeware also,

Kaiii doesn't seem to be concerned.

The big issue for AIG right now is that you can't mix FSX legacy and MSFS Native models or the sim will crash.

Edited July 31, 20214 yr by Tuskin38

45 minutes ago, marsman2020 said:

Maybe it's time for some of the 3DP developers to shine light onto the problems that MS/Asobo are creating for them instead of hiding away on private dev-only servers so everyone can smile and talk about how "MS and Asobo are great partners" in public.

There are not any dev only forums as such, all forums between Asobo and 3rd party developers are now public. They closed all previous private forums we had.

You are more than welcome to check the new forum out since they are public domain, we report issues with the SDK very often to them.

https://devsupport.flightsimulator.com/index.html

Previous SU5 and after, it is a constant cycle 😉

55 minutes ago, marsman2020 said:

 

Double post ignore mobile going nuts..

  😉

Edited July 31, 20214 yr by simbol