I find that destroying hundreds of zombies in Call of Duty BO6 is very good therapy, after, or even instead of, a frustrating session on FS2024. 
I get it.
It’s crazy. When I got 2020, I was getting up at 05:00 to fly. I couldn’t get enough of it. I was completely hooked.
I never spent time on forums. Sure, I’d look for answers there, but not participate with any regularity. This is the only forum I’ve ever had this sort of participation in.
My point? MSFS was something I loved and saw as a major part of my free time.
Now? I’m so disillusioned that I don’t even feel compelled to launch 2020, which I know works for the most part.
I’m finding myself getting back into other hobbies and interests. Not that I dropped them, I’m just spending more time with them.
From a purely business standpoint this should alarm Microsoft. They want me evangelizing and being focused on their product. They want me spending money on their marketplace. The fact that their latest release and their follow-up actions (or lack thereof) are severely driving me away is the antithesis of how this should be going down.
From a purely emotional, how does it feel perspective? It’s totally sad and depressing.
Your post reflects my feelings exactly.
It is almost embarassing to say: After 40 years in which flight simulation was synonym to fascination and many hours of joy for me, it now drives me down emotionally. After all it is just a computer game! I think a lot of these feelings stem from the fact that our anticipation of 2024 was just driven way too high by the trailer and announcements, and so the deception is correspondingly hurtful 
From reading the user comments, it’s obvious that most people using fs2024 feel it’s more like a job than entertainment. That’s a problem. A BIG problem.
I’ve played nothing but MSFS 2024 since its release. I’ve finally come to terms this is not even an alpha release product. It has so many bugs, so many broken features, a “horrible” user interface, it’s simply not worth my time anymore. I’m going back to MSFS2020 where it’s fun to fly.
yeah because Asobo left us during these holidays with a buggy, unfinished product unfortunately. It’s hard for me to enjoy flying in msfs 2024…
I have the same feelings, but to be fair, I’m sure the boots-on-the-ground devs at Asobo saw this disaster coming and called for a go-around but were overridden by the bean counters. As a former QA guy, I’ve seen this happen way too many times. There’s probably deep documentation on nearly every game-breaking bug sitting in some VP-level’s inbox on read because they needed to make a holiday launch for their bonus. If I’m a low level employee at Asobo I’m probably having a terrible holiday because I was forced to launch a product with my name on it that I knew was subpar and the entire community is upset with me when it’s just Frederic L’Avide who pulled released the kraken and then went to Monaco for a month after launch.
I am sure they did, since they made it. Maybe they should have made a better product and we wouldn’t be in this mess.
I don’t think any of them saw the Y2k25 career mode bug coming. Almost as embarrassing as KSP2 writing to the registry. I hope MSFS2025 turns out better than KSP2 and isn’t a full-price early access rugpull.
Uh, did I miss something?
What is the Y2k25 bug??
Career missions started depopulating at UTC 00:00:01 1/1/2025. New careers can’t be started with the current mission server state.
You’re kidding.
Oh boy…
That is FABULOUS!
If that doesn’t sum up this sim then I don’t know what does.
No more patience to live the 24 frustrations. My MSFS 2020 with all high end Add On’s and High and Utlra Settings runs like hell!
No need for any MSFS24 frustrations any longer, i stopped beta-testing.
There is some benefit regarding VFR-Flying, but in normal life, i don’t miss anything in MSFS20.
Will come back again in a year and look if there is some significant progress. The decision to stream egerything is desastrous. There are Countries in the world where CDN’s are not capable to perform, especially in Germany thanx to Telekom.
This is what is call pure CR@P Asobo! You can’t even explain why this is stupidly coded! A 6 year old can code this better. Here is an example of a plane completely working in the conditions, but you have it red for maintenance. This aircraft makes no money in passive because you can’t code! I can get a 1st year junior programmer to program better than this TRASH! You ripped us off by releasing this BROKEN product!
Must be a lot of simmers giving up on 2024 - sims starts up in 2 mins - in sim working well - like a new sim for to me today - hope it stays that way
Looking forward to Asobo’s advances on the state of 2024 - has a lot of potential
I could not believe this is true. But indeed the Career mode is completely broken:
As bad as the career mode sounds, it drives me bonkers that each time I want to start Free Flight I need to re-select the variant and livery of the A330 I want to fly. I always choose the Delta 330-200 GE. And then, I need to fix the bindings for each of my controllers. Asobo gave us a ridiculously complex mechanism to configure our controllers but decided saving the settings and aircraft selection was unnecessary.
Maddening!
My biggest fear about this complex control mechanism is that Asobo will probably have to revamp it and this will lead to more bugs.
I still haven’t forgotten in 2020 when they made changes there and left all Xcloud users unable to save their controls. Every time you entered the simulator, the controls would return to default.
I waited months until a SU came out where Asobo fixed the bug that they themselves created.