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So tomorrow is the day that we're apparently able to complete the functional testing of our own products for Marketplace releases.
Can someone point me in the direction of the documentation which tells us how to go about doing so? Especially on the Xbox side of things which suggested we will need a physical device or access to Xbox cloud services.
I would like to clear our backlog of sceneries which have been waiting up to 4 months to release.
Thanks. They haven't responded since 15th March.
Isn't this described in detail here:
MSFS Marketplace Partner Functional Testing of Content - Microsoft Flight Simulator
Seems pretty clear that MS is now allowing devs to test their product in their own isolated private, test area, using a standard X-Box X and or S.
Partners are required to use Xbox Series X/S hardware or Xbox Cloud Gaming to test their own Xbox content. We will gather information from partners on whether they are using Xbox Series X/S hardware or Xbox Cloud Gaming for functional testing. Partners are welcome but not required to use a combination of these Xbox testing mechanisms.
They send a notification last week via Microsoft Teams to everyone with instructions. Pretty clear obviously you or one of your testers will need a console.
This move from Microsoft is very good, I sense some tension on these posts, please stay focus on the main goal, you are now in control of your content releases, Microsoft market place teams have been overloaded and overwhelmed for a long time, this new method will alleviate these issues and speed up your content releases.
Also, please remember this has nothing to do with Asobo, if you have any issues with your content tests you should email MCP via the email contact explained when you joined the Marketplace as an official 3rd party developer. Unless of course you detect a bug with MSFS and the SDK.
I get you guys get frustrated, but Asobo cannot do anything to help, it is outside of their scope. In any case now we are all in control of releasing, communication should improve since the MP team will have much more space and bandwidth to work with US.
Best,
Raul
Yep clearer instructions came last week since I posted this question.
For anyone that hasn't seen them they are here: https://mcp.flightsimulator.com/documentation/topics
Still not sure exactly what to expect come Monday when hopefully all of our sceneries in the backlog become available for testing. I guess they will be visible on the in-game Marketplace to install.
And on Xbox testing - my understanding is that we won't need a physical Xbox, just an Xbox Ultimate Game Pass to run Flight Simulator on cloud gaming services.
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