It is necessary to buy most of the scenery areas again, if you want to get everything that was in 2022 plus the new north-west and eastern USA areas.
In my experience so far its totally worth it, because there are massive areas of improved higher definition scenery. So far I have seen fabulous detailed scenery over Europe, in particular Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, Iberia and France, that was not as good in 2022.
Ok thank you. I'm not sure I want to purchase everything again especially if they will just release another one next year and do the same thing.
How is the performance as I have seen comments from people saying they have bad fps? Also I noticed they are working on ground services for PC but no mention of mobile. That for me is the main thing I don't like. Seeing beautiful airport environments and not being able to spawn at a gate feels wrong.
I definately agree that gate spawning would be a great improvement!
I've had good performance so far with FS2023, no difference to 2022 that I can notice ( Samsung Galaxy S20 FE).
For me, one of the main enjoyments while flying in the App, is watching the views go by. The sense of travel and the detail of the world below is one main thing for me. So I really appreciate the extra details that the scenery in FS 2023 has, and over huge areas that previously were a bit mushy. Other things like the better transitions between coastlines and water bring more realism to this version.
So I find its well worth the few extra pounds / dollars. I presume they have to buy the scenery files or license the use of them from a third party mapping company, so there must be extra costs there.
If IPACS require annual subscription money they should be open about it and ask us for it.
If I could get a significantly improved Swiss scenery add on through paying an in plain sight significant surcharge for much superior data and more man-hours in Tübingen that significantly surcharged scenery should have more staying power, why on earth should I pay again next December and again the December after that? And I’m sick of all the downloading.
The mobile revenue model does not smell of spring flowers.
I used to "play" a subscription model flight app, before I tried "flying" with the Aerofly sim. I was paying £9.49 a month (British pounds) ... £113.00 annually!
Of course this was sold as the cost of running servers for the multiplayer game modes, but you still had to pay it just to get fairly mediocre scenery around the world. In the end I saw it as a bit of a scam.
Ultimately the realism and immersion you get with a quality simulator like Aerofly Mobile wins out. So the relatively small annual costs are worth it I believe. And I do see this latest version as a significant upgrade, and well worth the charges for the improved scenery.
I accept that the aircraft packages are a bit more debatable, but I suspect they are there to spread out the overall costs for users who may feel better buying in small chuncks over time.
Another point, a subscription model is tough to sell to new users. You have to offer a very cheap starter package, to get them to try it, but then you have to tolerate all the moans and complaints and terrible Play Store ratings when they realise the best bits are behind the paywall.
At least with the one off charges users get the stuff for the lifespan of the app ....
Did FS2022 in iPadOS/iOS get support for a year? The faults carried over the last 8-9 months and even on into FS2023!
Sauracy, you seem to be a very reasonable complainer 🤗. I don't think you should base your feelings about it on only the extra aircraft. I don't think I'll bother with the helicopter or Concord etc either ....rather you should consider the huge extra high quality areas of scenery added in to FS 2023, plus the extra parts of the USA. Those are the added value aspects that make it worthwhile to buy the various parts of FS 2023 IMO.
Overloaded, perhaps we're best to view the payment model as a kind of annual subscription, with large data updates to download each year?!
Ok glad to hear it! I'll ask the devs to give me some sales commission from your app store fees 
Try a flight from Bari to Palermo, or Bologna to Alghero ...lovely detail in the scenery! Also the flights on the east coast USA are great ....Boston to Baltimore, La Guardia to Washington etc! The new airports are spectacular as well!
Yup you’ve earned the commission for sure 
I will try those routes definitely. I am pleasantly surprised so far as to me the clouds look more realistic and seem to have less of a performance hit than the last version even dialed right up. I enjoyed flying into Corsica in the last version and thought the scenery was quite good but it’s good to know it’s even better now.
