Flightsim.to tries to undo the damage from controversial TOS update
pcinvasion.comIt’s been a week since the popular freeware hub for Microsoft Flight Simulator, flightsim.to, announced a new update to its business model. This came with a new update to the site’s Terms of Service, particularly of interest to creators who upload their work to the site. Almost immediately, this new update was met with a wave of backlash from add-on creators both small and large alike. Now, the team behind flightsim.to is trying to nurse the wounds and patch things up.
In a news post made to its website on February 11, 2023, flightsim.to announced a new Creators Program and Premium Membership option that would be launched within the coming months. To summarize, the Creators Program would allow add-on makers who upload to the site to receive more direct compensation for their work – particularly promising increased returns for more downloads and upvotes, and subsequent support of their add-ons.
As for the Premium Membership, end-users would benefit from access to faster download servers, ad-free browsing, and no download countdowns. Funds generated by premium subscriptions would also be passed onto the creators, as the announcement stated.
The flightsim.to team explicitly stated in this announcement that these changes were meant to bolster the site itself – it’s generated over 33 million downloads ever since it launched back in 2020, along with generating millions of page views per month.
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Succinctly, flightsim.to has grown exponentially since launch, and therefore the cost to run such a large site has risen alongside its growing popularity. When you consider all of these factors, on the surface all of the aforementioned changes appear to make sense. However, creators and site users were quick to
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