And that's a good reason to avoid the marketplace, (can't change the config files). I used to reconfigure every purchased plane and every plane in the base sim that is not premium (there are 20 of them). It was necessary to make them behave. Later on, 3 sliders were added into the MSFS "hangar" for "effectiveness" and 3 new sliders in the Sensitivities window of MSFS meant that I could do all my tweaks more easily there and not have to edit .cfg files.

 

A reason to buy in the marketplace is ease of making upgrades. I have 5 other places to monitor in order to find and do upgrades (Orbx, simmarket, justflight, aerosoft, Contrails). The upgrade method is differenct for all 5 and all 5 use different apps. Yesterday I spent over 3 hours doing these kinds of upgrades. It's complicated because you have to move files around after using these upgrade apps (in order to make them locate into the proper addon linker subfolder hierarchy). 

Doing the same thing in the marketplace would have taken me 1 minute instead of 3 hours. One minute to click on content manager and then  on "not installed", select all, and install. And then 1 minute later go to the MSFS map page and make a flight while everything downloaded in the background and all sorted automatically to where they should go.

Here in NZ the Marketplace is often by far the cheapest place to buy, especially if waiting for sales. For example; the //42 Kitfox Complete kit is $59NZD @ //42 store even being on sale. MP sale it was $21NZD. Even the Comanche, without discount I got for $72NZD on the MP, and best price I could find elsewhere was at least $10 more.

18 minutes ago, Fielder said:

And that's a good reason to avoid the marketplace, (can't change the config files). I used to reconfigure every purchased plane and every plane in the base sim that is not premium (there are 20 of them). It was necessary to make them behave. Later on, 3 sliders were added into the MSFS "hangar" for "effectiveness" and 3 new sliders in the Sensitivities window of MSFS meant that I could do all my tweaks more easily there and not have to edit .cfg files.

 

A reason to buy in the marketplace is ease of making upgrades. I have 5 other places to monitor in order to find and do upgrades (Orbx, simmarket, justflight, aerosoft, Contrails). The upgrade method is differenct for all 5 and all 5 use different apps. Yesterday I spent over 3 hours doing these kinds of upgrades. It's complicated because you have to move files around after using these upgrade apps (in order to make them locate into the proper addon linker subfolder hierarchy). 

Doing the same thing in the marketplace would have taken me 1 minute instead of 3 hours. One minute to click on content manager and then  on "not installed", select all, and install. And then 1 minute later go to the MSFS map page and make a flight while everything downloaded in the background and all sorted automatically to where they should go.

what am I missing?  I can't visualize how it could possibly take you that long to do upgrades.  I have multiple payware apps also and manage them with addon linker.  Every few days i open each one and let them run.  The time add is hardly noticeable.  The bottle neck in my experience is the sim itself in terms of upgrades.  The only app I use that I would like to get away from is simmarket.  

Depends on how much a of tweaker one is. I absolutely must have access to all addon files.

Marketplace is always the very last option for me.

There was a time when I would have wanted access to all airport AFD files, but I really do not want to go down that route again. I ended up tweaking/modifying/changing so much stuff, that I was in Airport Design Editor more often than I was in the simulator. That's ridiculous, and not an option for me in MSFS.

25 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

There was a time when I would have wanted access to all airport AFD files, but I really do not want to go down that route again. I ended up tweaking/modifying/changing so much stuff, that I was in Airport Design Editor more often than I was in the simulator. That's ridiculous, and not an option for me in MSFS.

You don’t need to actively use design editor to be limited by marketplace products. Heck, some airports you can’t even turn off static airplanes on marketplace purchases.