14 hours ago, DChockey08 said:

Not compatible =/= doesn't work.

All PMDG birds work perfectly in V6.1

That is not what I read on the PMDG site. Happy to be proven wrong.

14 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

XP has always been highly regarded but to move to that would require me to learn things all over again and I’m too old. 😉

That was the one reason I went with P3D when I left 32bit MS behind, their commands were all "foreign".

For me,

PMDG 747 base pack works fine, the 747-8 has issues with some of the displays during daylight hours (same as the QW 787). 

6 hours ago, newtie said:

If they sell it, they have to support it, or at least they should. That costs money.

Yes, I agree with what you said. Keeping prices high will often discourage those from picking up new product in a bid to defer extra support costs and still fund the support needed for existing products.

2nd reason could be that for those developers that distribute their products via 3rd party outlet  or distributor, typically there's costs involved there too, so cutting prices may not be advantageous to the dev.

On the whole I am not complaining about P3D product add-on prices given the captive market it has. In the last 2 years or so there have been a large number of sales for various P3D software add-ons that have been typically in the range of anywhere between 20-50%. Some devs have even given their product range up for free that is most appreciated.

The good news is that choice of sim is not limited today and will get even better based on improved realism and less technical entry barriers as platforms move to online/cloud. The residential gaming and commercial simulation market today will only continue to expand in the next few years.

14 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

Companies go after money?

Developers are driven by money too!?

Geez, that’s terrible….🤨

Right?? 😂 .. and here's a bonkers thought, there could also be devs out there who are driven by *both* passion and earnings for their quality work! (Fenix comes to mind with Aamir and the gang certainly showing lots of passion and explicitly stated that many times even, PMDG and RSR seem passionate to me, iniBuilds certainly from they way they engage with users, simbol of FSReborn is definitely passionate, etc etc).  

Edited December 24, 20232 yr by lwt1971

On 12/22/2023 at 6:56 PM, aeronauta said:

Most users are Casual, entertainment, this means their PC is a gaming PC and mainly used for very graphics intensive games , hence the powerful Video card ...

Well, can't really infer that can we, given these multiple choice answers for that question: Casual gaming ... Curiosity / Interest in Aviation ... Familiarization of cockpit/airport/airspace ... Maintaining skills/currency and proficiency of training ... Training towards a pilot license or certification. So for those of us who're not IRL pilots or looking to become one, the only plausible choices were the first two (the second was top choice at ~42% and first one was 33%).

And powerful PCs don't necessarily only mean it's for graphic intensive games, they're also needed to drive high resolutions and software that needs lots of processing of non-graphics stuff. I'd say a person more seriously into the flight sim hobby would tend to have more powerful hardware.
 

Edited December 24, 20232 yr by lwt1971

On 12/22/2023 at 10:15 PM, Tim_Capps said:

Navigraph 2023 Survey Results  P3D is less than 5%; barely above Infinite Flight (never heard of it TBH) and half that of X-Plane. Still using P3D for "legacy" 3d Party (nearly everything for P3D now), but spend more time in X-Plane myself, with MSFS for occasional fun. Each has its purpose for me.

There is still something I don‘t really get in these (simplified) results. They seemed to have counted under P3D only the version 5, for XP only version 12 and for MSFS only 2020. In the detailed results the respective usage for each „brand“ as the main used sim is higher than that if we count all versions together within each sim.