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FsX on Steam December 18th!

Navy Chief said:
I understand, from all of this, that it would just be a matter of pointing the installer to the Steam directories? What about manually moving addon aircraft files, as often done from FSX to P3D? NC
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There should be no issues with that.
The game folder structure will probably not be changed, it's just that the main FSX folder will be located somewhere in a X:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\Common\* folder (X being one of your drives).

I can take another game as an example: Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind (it's a role playing game). That game can be modded, by adding some files in a dedicated folder (a bit equivalent to our \Addon Scenery\ for FSX), and you could replace textures etc... Mod packages could be downloaded from various sites and installed manually or using some third-party tools.
That game first appeared back when Steam didn't exist. I bought it on DVDs at that time, then later on, I offered these DVDs to my little brother.

Recently, that game appeared on Steam, and I took the opportunity to buy it again at low price.
And i could install some mods again (Morrowind Overhaul, for those who know ;) ) donwloaded out of Steam.

The most recent iteration of that game, names Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, appeared on Steam from the start.
You could download and install manually some mods, but there was also a "Steam Workshop", which is kind of a centralized mod page, from which you could download and install automatically the mods created by the community. I'm talking about freeware mods of course. The workshop offered to the mod creator a dedicated framework, like a webpage, where he could upload his mod, put a description and screenshots of his mods, very convenient.
 
Hughes-MDflyer4 said:
It's great that FSX is being put on Steam. The re-introduced multiplayer will surely be nice to have!



I'd be a little uneasy if that happened. We need a new core engine, not new scenery. An Orbx partnership-based sim could potentially take things the wrong direction as Orbx might want to lock out other scenery developers/make it harder for non-Orbx companies to develop scenery (they seem very money-hungry).
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Yup that would most certainly be a disastrous move......
 
One major feature of Steam is that it automatically updates ALL your games with new patches and upgrades......... now, there aren't any for FSX of course, so that makes the current 'advantage' rather dubious.

But who knows.... in a few years from now ... *gg*
 
I'm Dubious at Best

When TS2015 (Train Simulator) came out, I saw many folks complaining about the loss of downloadable content (DLC) and many did not know if there was a way to get it back into TS2015. (BTW, if you were running TS2014, TS2015 was automatically provided by update....one had no choice.) I'm concerned that once Dovetail gets familiar with FSX, starts updating once per year with auto updates, 3rd party products and support won't be welcome unless a deal is made with Dovetail. I may be paranoid, but I don't see this being a good thing for FSX (and the thousand or so dollars I've spent on it).

I'm also seeing that standalone copies of FSX Gold are not readily available. Will we still get support from 3rd party vendors if "non-Steam" FSX operators can no longer increase (and will likely decline over the next couple years)?

Just Flight operates Just Trains and maybe will comment on how it works with Dovetail to add DLC to a Dovetail Steam sim / game.

Did I mention Dovetail DLC is not inexpensive?
 
Navy Chief said:
Am hoping the same does not happen to P3D. NC
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I cannot see Lockheed Martin getting into bed with a game provider or host or whatever Dovetail present themselves as. They barely promote themselves anyway and seem committed to the Professional/Student label.
On a plus note, surely anything which keeps the genre or franchise alive can only be a good thing.
 
I don't see ANY reason why we could not continue to use the FSX we already have and own....... nobody NEEDS to go get the Steam/Dovetail version, so what's the fear !?

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