After reading quite a few posts (on other forums) about the P3D 4.5 update and all the consequences it has for add ons I am very happy that AFS2 is the only flight sim I have installed. However... I was wondering how to things will be in the near future when for instance Just Flight releases their planes for AFS2. Does IPACS has any control over how those add ons will be released and offered to us? The great thing about AFS2 was that you only needed Steam to install AFS2 and everything that you bought for it and also updates would always work. Now a lot of us already need to have FTX Central installed for Orbx addons. Will Just Flight have their own way of releasing things...? If so then in a few years time reinstalling and/or updating AFS2 might become just as hard as reinstalling and/or updating P3D. Or XP. Not something I am looking forward too...
I suppose this simply is the price we have to pay for progress...? Or does IPACS have any ideas on this? Maybe they can force add on developers to always also release their add ons on Steam? Is there ANY way to prevent AFS2 from going the same route as P3D and XP when it comes to add ons?