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FSX Selling missions

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Gunner2087

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Hi everyone!
I have been planning to sell my missions through flightsim.com.
I believe they have very good terms and can display my missionpacks to a very wide audience.
Is there anyone who got any comments to this?
Best regards Gunnar
 
Post a discription of you missions

Post a discription of you missions. So we all can see wath they are about and maybe comment about them. It will also serve as a teaser.
 
Gunnar, good on you sir, I like the initiative. I wish I was talented enough to do the same.

Here are my thoughts -- probably needs to be a mission pack, like buying a record album, and probably needs to be priced about like that, around $10-15 bucks, maybe a bit more if they are really damn good. Make it like 10-12 missions, different places, various conditions. Could be variations perhaps of the same mission structure, perhaps, so long as the missions are good enough and varied enough with enough different conditions (weather, time of day, locations) and events to keep them all interesting. Should have ample helping of random events in most of them -- replayability is what will set your work apart IMHO.

If it were me doing it, I'd work up one or two of them to release free to whet the appetite of the community. Too many 'pretty good' free missions out there to fly -- but really good ones I think folks will pay for if they see the value. So you or I do anybody thinking of this would have to give the target market (FSX community) a taste of it.

Another thought -- you'd probably need to build missions for the more commonly flown/owned aircraft, eg FSX acceleration aircraft or the really popular add-ons.

My opinion is hardly one that means anything, but there it is anyway. Interested to hear what others have to say.

Ripcord
 
As you are one of those developers I download the missions without any fears that they won't work, I'd say go for it. You are for long time in the "mission business" to know the pros and cons when it comes to aircraft selection and user expectations.

The only thing I would consider as well is the fact that maybe the work is not worth the effort. I mean you (and I know you will) will sit on complicated missions for a lot of time, you try to debug as good as possible and still people will find complaints due to the fact that they screwed up their systems and giving you the blame instead of thinking what they did wrong with the re- and re- and again reinstalling FSX and customizing. They will demand support you sometimes cannot provide due to their ignorance.
I do not know if this is worth the headache.

Next: You spend a lot of time programming and when it goes gold you will soon find out that within days your pack will appear on torrents. So no more money, and also those who use these means will even ask for support...

My 2 cents...

I know you are a hell of a mission developer, just want to give you the warning that your hobby might turn out to be a hazzle.

Forgive me being the negative guy, normally not my part. I also considered doing this for money, but even when my missions were bugfree you should read the emails I got from certain individuals...
Some even complained about the location and became political...
It's a frickin' simulation game...

As freeware you can at least say: "So don't install it if you don't like it."
You don't have to worry about refund...

Kindest regards, :)
 
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