by JBaymore » Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:17 pm
As always... anything said is all speculation based on the minimal information that parsing of the official press releases provides. And that ain't much.
Reading between the lines, it sounds to me like Micro$oft is likely planning on controlling the add-ons, so that they get at least a piece of the action on most if not all stuff involved in the new sim.
".....integrated content marketplace......" sounds like it will focus on payware add-ons only, and only those offered thru that venue will maybe be available to work with the new sim. They'll probably have a few "teaser" freebies... but I bet most of the content will be payware based.
If they allow freeware development to go on the download site, it sounds like they will still want to put their "stamp of approval" on it. Which might eliminate stuff like real airline repaints (due to licensing issues) and other such stuff.
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