Still isn't enough to win back my support of Marketplace.

For far too long some of the good honest developers were put in some sort of vetting limbo with Marketplace approval.

Meanwhile the puppy mill quick cash grab content developers have had years of being prioritized over others.

In no way low quality low effort cash grab developers like LivToAir, Diemos, nor SimFederation should have been given vetting approval to Marketplace before devs like MamuDesigns and others who went years before finally being approved.

The game has been rigged far too long....MScenery should have never been approved in the first place. That would only take one competent human being review to determine such obvious common sense.💡

1 hour ago, carlanthony24 said:

Isn't scenery creations the same people

Not sure about that. The one that confuses me is if MSFSscenerybuilders and FSXscenery are the same payware shop. They tend to hit a lot of regional and smaller airports that don't get attention, but quality varies widely.

59 minutes ago, Funky D said:

MS/Asobo really need to follow this up with new marketplace rules: No AI-enhanced product images and no review manipulation.

It needs to go further.

There needs to be some basic level of realism/functionality.

Like, I’m even (mostly) okay with the Captain Sim antics because at least they’re (mostly) honest and upfront about it. But the mscenery dreck is obviously substandard.

Heck, I’m not even sure Deimos is up to par (?)

And really, cheap rentals should be absolutely mandatory. If an addon has a very low conversion rate to full purchase, that could even automatically log a flag for investigation

and so on.

Edited 9 hours ago9 hr by UrgentSiesta

2 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

There needs to be some basic level of realism

No

That took way too long. May nothing like that ever happen again.

3 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

There needs to be some basic level of realism/functionality.

I am fine with "unrealistic" products as long as they're marketed correctly and priced fairly. Plenty of casual users want to fly simple planes that look nice... with MScenery they were getting an overpriced product with flashy marketing pics and ended up sitting in a cockpit that looked like it came out of Minecraft. It would be nice if they added a marketplace filter for realism so the more arcade-like products could be filtered out.

The 5 star rating was crazy.- Such should not be possible. There's another developer, as fas as I know, that should be removed. He imports existing gltf, slightly modifies and uploads.

I wonder if MS will do anything 'nice' with their share of the profits.

There is another 20 or 30 devs need to be chucked out; if they want to declare the Market Place a place simmer can thrust. At the moment is well below that line.