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Flytampa, Flightbeam, FSDT and 29Palms future products to be P3D4 only
juniormafia27:
--- Quote from: FLYFROMUTAH on September 12, 2017, 08:09:34 pm ---At the current time FSX is the largest market. Do you expect that to shrink so much in the next two years that is not worth offering customers scenery at the loss of your income. Yes it might be easier to develop products for the new platforms 64 bit. As a business decision, easier at loss of income might be self defeating. If you have investors, which I have no idea if you do or are totally privately owned, they might not like leaving a market that provides income to the bottom line. I think as any investor might until that market FSX is no longer viable in terms of costs vs income, that it should be sustained for the time being. Especially Flightbeam who came out with KPDX in development just as P3V4 came out. This is a disservice to those who have been waiting a long time for a good Portland airport scenery and a major disappointment. I think you should have given it at least another year before deciding to cut off FSX users. >:( Other developers I purchase from have not made this decision at this time, and will be writing software for FSX for the time being and into the future as long as the market is large.
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I has been a while since I have been on here. Based on your statement it seems that you have not been in the field of flight simulation hobby too long. We've all know that this day was coming. In terms of the market shift was going to occur....as it has with FS9. Although FSX was great leap forward for a lot of us. It also had it's limitations in which made it frustrating to continue for word. With the introduction of P3D v.4. The sim has finally made it to a point in which works for everyone wanting positive performance and maximum realism. FSX is has "BEEN" slowly going down in the history books....especially with X-Plane 11 on the market, as well. So for you to tell a developer how to run his buisness is insulting. Unless you know how the engineer sceneries on your own, to benefit the rest of the flight sim community. I think you should have a seat. This announcement has nothing to do with what others are doing. He is stating what they are doing. And news flash the others are not far behind....FsDreamteam, Flightbeam, and Fly Tampa by themselves are huge pillars in the FSX/P3D world. So if you don't like their decision. You can simply not buy and stay with the trend you want to roll with. But at the end of the day like it or not they are going forward with this. I personally think they are doing the right decision. I have been a long time customer of all three of these developers., at that. The new market is now P3d and X-Plane 11
FLYERFROMOREGON:
You assume quite wrong, I have been doing this for about 17 years. Next time don't assume you make yourself look like a jerk. :P
Dave_YVR:
So essentially you are saying that Flytampa, Flightbeam, FSDT and 29Palms don't actually know what their market is.. I find that highly unlikely.
virtuali:
--- Quote from: FLYFROMUTAH on September 12, 2017, 08:09:34 pm ---At the current time FSX is the largest market.
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What evidence you have to support this data ? I hope you don't confuse "number of users" with "number of users that purchase add-ons".
I believe Aerosoft did a poll BEFORE P3D V4 was even announced, and they had somewhat like a 50% split between P3D and FSX, and this doesn't even take into account how much these users buy. I guess the same poll made today, with P3D V4 on the market, will be quite different.
--- Quote ---I think you should have given it at least another year before deciding to cut off FSX users
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Which is exactly what we are doing.
KSDF, which will be released shortly, will still be for FSX. It's the next sceneries we'll do after that will be for P3D V4 only, which right now are confirmed to be KPIT, LSFB and the new KORD. None of them will likely arrive before at least one year so, we are giving you exactly what you are asking: about a year in advance to prepare yourself.
FLYERFROMOREGON:
I'm fine with the year in advance for new products, as I do believe that P3V4 is the future. FSX is not yet the past but still in the present. Updates for KORD as an FSX product would have been nice, but since you describe it as new and maybe bought as new, that will be our loss. But what really disturbs me is that Flightbeam came out with KPDX at least a month before V4 was released, and will not be an FSX product. Is it really going to take a year for them to do an airport of that size? ::) This should really be reexamined.
My data did come from another developer who intends on making products for FSX into the future as they describe the FSX market as quite large. I do not know of course who buys add-ons and who does not. That would be a sales figure of all developers combined.
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