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Flytampa, Flightbeam, FSDT and 29Palms future products to be P3D4 only
pracines:
I fully support this decision. Lockheed Martin has proven to be a great friend of 3rd parties.
I have been waiting for this (64-bit) day in MSFS based flight simulation to happen for 15+ years now. FS9 should have been 64-bit the way I see it!
I would also say look out for 128-bit to be upon us before we realize it, of course if world war III does not happen first. VR is expanding, it will quickly mature, and this in turn will require much greater power.
Hopefully the costs of hardware will come down as flight simulation can finally push the limits once again, as it did in the past. ;D
GAJ52:
I also think this is a great move.
I have only just joined the P3D bandwagon initially with v3.4 then v4. P3Dv4 with quality addon scenery and aircraft is unbelievable, way beyond what FSX can offer and I thought FSX was the bees knees for many years.
Great move FSDT and I look forward to buying your products for many years to come - for P3Dv4 plus.
virtuali:
--- Quote from: OVI on July 05, 2017, 03:06:34 am ---RobertO1035 is not raising the question of the license here.
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Well, he has.
--- Quote --- He is putting the fact on the table that great sim developers want to support the sim without the license for 99% of consumers. It's not a question! This is the fact.
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The fact is, the only license which is might be limited to some users, is the Academic one, which offers a discount to students. The description of the Professional license on LM website says:
--- Quote ---The license is available to those that are training, instructing, simulating, or learning.
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Haven't we always said FSX is a "simulation" rather than a "game" ? This means that anyone whose intention is to "simulate" or "learn", can use the Professional license.
We could say that, since FSX only had an entertainment license, so it qualified as a "game", was always used in the wrong way, by users not wanting a game and to be "entertained".
In any case, this will be the last post about license discussions. Every further posts on this matter will be deleted, which is the same policy LM has in place on his forum. The question if you can qualify for a certain LM license, is a matter between you, the customer, and LM, so it has no place being discussed here.
--- Quote ---Besides this fact there is another issue here. It is called "forcing the end consumers to buy the certain sim".
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No, it's called "deciding to offer some kind of product to the market, and taking the risk it MIGHT not sell".
virtuali:
--- Quote from: Shom on July 05, 2017, 06:49:42 am ---Umberto, what platform(s) will be supported in KPIT & the new KORD?
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This should have been clear from the announcement:
--- Quote ---Some of our products that are already very close to release, such as Flightbeam KMSP or Fsdreameam KSDF, will still be offered for FSX too, and we’ll of course continue to support all our existing releases with bug fixes, but the new products we’ll work from now on, will be designed for Prepar3D 4 and future versions.
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So yes, KSDF will be our last scenery which will be still available for FSX. Note that, I said "scenery": GSX might still see other updates, even major ones, for FSX, but just because it will take more time to eventually redesign it for P3D V4 from the ground up but, we'll surely add more and more P3D4-only features to it, while still maintaining FSX compatibility.
sanookbkk:
I totally understand that developers are moving to P3DV4 Only.
P3D license might be expensive but Flight simulation is a passion. If you are not ready
to invest in a product which at least will offer endless possibility to enhance realism then just play "games".
Flight simulation has been stuck with FSX limitations for 15 years thus losing many potential customers.Before you had many freeware sceneries and
tools but much less today as people moved away from an over-aged product which did not reflect today's technical possibilities.
P3DV4 will hopefully bring many new flight sim addicts as it might be a software of his time and not an old soft with a 2006 technology full of limitations.
The more people share our hobby, the more wonderful add-ons we can get as developers would be able to enlarge their customer base
and have more money for R&D, also we might see a surge in new creative and nice free addons as we saw in the good old times.
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