matmouls

From my point of view I will stay away from pure P3D developpers until they show something meaningful on MSFS. Sorry but I will not spend a handful of bucks for an addon if it turns out that it won’t survive one more year because they put on the market a new addon already obsolete because not compatible with MSFS. I will continue to enjoy my P3D with my current addons and consider only the MSFS third party developpers officially declared.

Hi everyone, Has anyone considered the impact of MSFS on the P3D ecosystem ? I fear that MSFS2020 arrival on the sim market draws out new customers from P3D significantly. This will result for addon dev who are not clearly on MSFS boat (FlightsimLabs for ex) a huge drop of sales, causing money shortage and possibly their death. Remember that as customers we are not anymore physical owner of the product: we just purchased a license ownership (a license that must be activated by the addon provider). We might have severe disappointments when these P3D addons company will die, because they will: We won’t have any possibilities to activate online the addon and won’t be able to use it anymore. In my opinion this fact will accelerate the death of the old platform ecosystem. I fear that MSFS2020 arrival on the sim market draws out new customers from P3D. This will result for addon developper who are not clearly on MSFS boat (FlightsimLabs for ex) a huge drop of sales, causing money shortage and possibly their death. These companies are small and rely on fresh cashflow for their new products investments. Remember that as customers we are not anymore physical owner of the product: we just purchased a license ownership (a license that must be activated by the addon provider). We might have severe disappointments when these P3D addons companies will disappear ! We won’t have any possibilities to activate online the addons we purchased and won’t be able to use it anymore. In my opinion this fact will accelerate the migration movement toward FS.