• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Add-on purchases - Marketplace vs. 3rd party site?

D

DaveKDEN

Charter Member
I'm just curious if it makes much of a difference where you purchase add-ons - the MSFS Marketplace (within the program) vs. 3rd party websites? In specific, the FlyingIronSimulations Spitfire. I planned on buying it awhile back, but life got in the way.
 
DaveKDEN said:
I'm just curious if it makes much of a difference where you purchase add-ons - the MSFS Marketplace (within the program) vs. 3rd party websites? In specific, the FlyingIronSimulations Spitfire. I planned on buying it awhile back, but life got in the way.
Click to expand...

I usually like to buy direct from the devs when possible to make sure they get the max profit from their hard work, why give a middle man a cut if you don't have too IMO.
 
Dangerous Beans said:
I usually like to buy direct from the devs when possible to make sure they get the max profit from their hard work, why give a middle man a cut if you don't have too IMO.
Click to expand...


Not only that, but the marketplace takes a long time to post updates when compared to updates that you can get when you buy directly from the Dev.
 
Also, as an end user, buying outside of the sim allows you to change things in the various files. Marketplace purchases not so easy. So adding or changing things becomes a lot more complicated if you buy from the Marketplace..:engel016:
 
Absolutely agree- I want timely updates, modable files and my cash to go directly to the developer. No MSFSMP for me.
 
Hello Dave,

A similar discussion is going on on the FS2020 forum for JustFlight

I posted there the other day:

I never had any issues with purchases from JustFlight.
Also, I keep a copy of my invoice in the same folder where I store the installer. I have folders on an external hard drive for each flight simulator platform, and in those subfolders for Aircraft, scenery, Airports and Tools.
In the Airplanes folder I have subfolders for each airplane I own. There I have the installer file as well as a copy of the invoice stored.
This way I always know where I purchased a product.
An advantage of purchasing directly from the developer is that you have immediate access to updates/patches. Marketplace takes forever to offer those.
And then people are whining why a released update/patch is not available for them yet.
So, I will always go for a purchase directly from the developer 1st, as it also gives them the full reward in payment for their efforts.
But that’s just my personal POV, of course.

I hope all above answers helps you make your own decision.

Happy flying

Btw: I am located in COS, so not far from your location, based on your user name.
 
RobM said:
Also, I believe the Marketplace sawed the cannons off the Spitfire. Is that correct?
Click to expand...

yes the cannons are removed for Marketplace version per MS policy which seems completely daft when you sit with a gunsight in front of you, not to mention a myriad of military details on various aircraft that remain.
 
jetstreamsky said:
yes the cannons are removed for Marketplace version per MS policy which seems completely daft when you sit with a gunsight in front of you, not to mention a myriad of military details on various aircraft that remain.
Click to expand...

even more daft when that is coming from a country with virtually no gun laws in real life...
I've always liked this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7MwvqCtlk
so buy a real gun as a kid, fine, but digital representation of non-firing gun, oh no, can't have that.
 
What an absolute beauty of a design - thanks again for the input! She's a bit of a handful on the takeoff roll, but once airborne is a delight.
One other question, does anyone know what parameter I can adjust to lower the eyepoint and zoom in a bit in the default cockpit view? I believe it would be in the "cameras.cfg" file. It seems a bit high for me, almost like the top of my head's sticking up into the canopy, and it's zoomed out a bit too much - kind of like a wide angle lens.
 
Last edited:
Third party may be fine but.......

I became interested in getting the season color trees addon and found it available at Simmarket and the marketplace. The simmarket version is preferred.

I wished to order from Simmarket and entered the manditory registration info.


I then attempted to sign in using my login email address and password. ERROR response.


Looking thru my email there was no confirmation of my registration.


I attempted to register again and was rejected b/c my email address was a duplicate.


I was able to request a new password, but received no email providing one.


Customer support requires logging in which I can't do b/c Simmarket rejects my login info.


I emailed sales@simmarket.com requesting help almost a day ago. No responce yet.

So I'm in a catch-22 at the moment. There are times when 3rd party has its issues.
 
jimjones said:
Third party may be fine but.......

I became interested in getting the season color trees addon and found it available at Simmarket and the marketplace. The simmarket version is preferred.

I wished to order from Simmarket and entered the manditory registration info.


I then attempted to sign in using my login email address and password. ERROR response.


Looking thru my email there was no confirmation of my registration.


I attempted to register again and was rejected b/c my email address was a duplicate.


I was able to request a new password, but received no email providing one.


Customer support requires logging in which I can't do b/c Simmarket rejects my login info.


I emailed sales@simmarket.com requesting help almost a day ago. No responce yet.

So I'm in a catch-22 at the moment. There are times when 3rd party has its issues.
Click to expand...

I would think that you gave SimMarket their chance. If it were me, I would just buy it at the Marketplace. I have that add-on BTW. I have only set it for Summer so far.
 
jmig said:
I would think that you gave SimMarket their chance. If it were me, I would just buy it at the Marketplace. I have that add-on BTW. I have only set it for Summer so far.
Click to expand...

It appears the Marketplace scenery is only one season now. Perhaps the four season pack will eventually come to the Marketplace at which time I will purchase, unless Simmarket responds with a solution first. I had a similar problem with another 3rd party where AT&T was blocking their email to me. AT&T helped then with a solution known only to them. Now AT&T does not connect me to a person, but shuffles me off to links that I don't understand or are of no use.

By the way, John, thanks for your comments.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top