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I don't know about an upgrade path - it was too long ago for me to recall. For what it's worth, I bought X-Plane 11 on Steam, and X-Plane 10 stand-alone - so pe
by Alupis 4y ago
I don't know about an upgrade path - it was too long ago for me to recall. For what it's worth, I bought X-Plane 11 on Steam, and X-Plane 10 stand-alone - so perhaps I didn't have many options.
However, something to keep in mind for someone newerish to siming in general - not just flight sims:
Whatever payware you purchase now (aircraft models, plugins, scenery, airports, etc) will almost certainly (with a few exceptions) not port over to the new sim version... meaning you'll have to buy them again unfortunately.
This is part of the reason you still see people flying older sims - they put a lot of money into it, and/or their favorite model isn't available yet or something.
So anything you bought today for X-Plane 11 might not port to X-Plane 12 when it comes out, depending on what engine changes have happened under the hood to X-Plane.
It's not a hard rule, but something to keep in mind.
- Stevvo 4y agoLaminar go to great lengths to keep aircraft from the previous version compatible. Only occasionally developers with DRM try to scam people to buy the same plane again.
- Alupis 4y agoThat's really great to know. Although I wouldn't necessarily classify having to purchase the same model again as a scam - depending what's changed in the engine, it may require a lot of work to update the model to fully take advantage of everything X-Plane 12 (for instance) offers. If there's a substantial update for the model, I would personally feel fine buying a new version. However, really nice to see Austin and Laminar have thought of this - some of us have waaaay too much invested into models and plugins!