![]() Right now there are good reasons for some to keep playing on other platforms, but those reasons are going to decline over time. Everyone has different priorities, so it might be a couple of years before your priority get addressed in MFSF. However, it seems to be heading in the right direction. I get that MSFS 2020 isn’t yet what everyone wants. He was making the point that the MSFS SDK allows them to do stuff they couldn’t do on other platforms. If he wasn’t genuinely really excited, he’s pretty good at faking it. Read/listen to what the head honcho at PMDG had to say about the MSFS platform when they announced the DC6. I suspect the people who work in Flight Sim now WANT to develop for MSFS, not because it’s better than X-Plane now, but they can see the potential. As a user of these other platform I can see that this is quite annoying, but it’s still true. Obviously, this will change over time.įor established comapanies with respected products on the other Sims, the potential market for an MSFS version includes people who already own their product but who will be tempted over to MSFS. Most of these have already been done in P3D/X-Plane. It is easier for a third party developer to find their niche in MSFS because there is a longer list of planes/airports that enough people want that you might make some money. You can choose to view these people as ‘gamers’ not ‘simmers’ and look down on them because they don’t have home cockpits or don’t do full transatlantic flights using VAT sim for realism, but ultimately the add on developers don’t care that much how their customers use their product, they about how many customers they have. I think MSFS2020 has made simming more accessible to casual players - you certainly get more out of the box. There are actually a few reasons for this: Ultimately, MSFS-2020 is where the money is and companies are likely to devote their efforts when they can make some money. I think is already strong evidence of this trend and it is likely to accelerate if the MSFS X-box launch is a success. Does that mean all third parties will abandon the alternatives? Of course not. I think it is clear that third party development effort is likely to be predominantly foccussed on MSFS over the next few years. “Ya know what I need right now? Something that REALLY annoys me. But those things above really make me not ever fire it up. I am sure XP offers a lot of great stuff too. Three - There is NO WAY to set Baro to match conditions!!! There is NO “B” for that functionality and you can’t assign a key for it! You literally have to request it from ATC and manually set it. Two - I have never been able to figure out how to properly use ATC in XP. Make it even more annoying - the last flight plan will still be in it because the plane doesn’t reset avionics between flights, so I first have to delete that plan. So I have to program my C172 from scratch. If I am flying out of some remote Bush strip somewhere, chances are, it’s not in SimBrief. I use SimBrief, mostly, but not EVERYTHING is in SimBrief. I find X-Plane to be a JARRING departure from that. I find the P3D experience very reminiscent of MSFS - not graphically, but… everything else - the way to operate switches, camera system, DEFINITELY the ATC, etc. I have all 3 sims currently installed - MSFS, P3D, and XP. This will be exacerbated when the X-Box version of MSFS comes out because then, the market will be even bigger for MSFS, which means more $$$ for 3rd party developers that sell through the MSFS marketplace, and this may even speed up the 3rd party developers to abandon P3D for MSFS. It looks like the exodous from P3D to MSFS is picking up steam, rather than slowing down. In this thread in the P3D forum in AVSIM, multiple 3rd party developers appear to be abandoning P3D for MSFS: A rant from the heart - The Prepar3d Forum - The AVSIM Community Yeah, this is more or less what I have been reading about too. As it’s been said, MSFS is where the money is going to be. There are a few addons that really keep pulling me into P3D such as those from HiFi and A2A. It all depends on how the addon scene plays out. There will be a point where I do uninstall P3D and XP (I might get XP12) but when that times I really don’t know. There has been quite the decline in third-party P3D addons over the past few years and it seems MSFS is only accelerating this. I have noticed that a number of developers have shifted their focus to MSFS. I use P3D, XP and MSFS and have a ton of addons.
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