I installed the standard edition using the initial first month Xbox pc game pass. I now want to purchase the premium deluxe edition and cancel the game pass.
I appreciate that I will be paying the full purchase price but my question is do I need to uninstall the standard edition first? Obviously it would be better if I could upgrade instead but this only seems to be possible if I keep the game pass which I do not want to do.
You shouldnt need to uninstall anything. Just buy the upgrade and it should download the new content
Thank you for your reply however I thought that the upgrade,from the Microsoft store, was only for people who purchased the standard version. I only paid £1 for the first month game pass!
I’m almost certain that it prices it accordingly.
This is a difficult one because once I cancel my game pass I can not use the standard version so I cannot upgrade and therefore need to purchase the full product.
Do you want to buy the premium deluxe full version or the upgrade in the ingame marketplace?
I first installed the Game Pass Standard version and played with it and then bought the full retail Premium Deluxe.
Then I just added the Key to my account and with the next start of MSFS, it downloaded the additional packages. No issues since then.
I don’t think you’ll have to uninstall anything once you quit Game Pass if you have a full license for the Premium Deluxe.
Not sure what happens if you buy a Premium Deluxe upgrade in the shop while using the Game Pass Standard edition though. That might be an issue once you no longer have Game Pass access…
If I’m reading things correctly, only the standard edition will work with Game Pass. To get the Premium Deluxe version it seems you’ll need to pony up the cash for the full monty: $120.00 US
Is there a specific reason why you want the PD version?
I an intending to pay the full price for the premium deluxe not an upgrade price. Just read my OP and when I said upgrade I was referring to upgrading the software that is installed.
From what you all are saying I should purchase the Full premium edition, and when I run msfs2020 it will upgrade my standard edition. I can the cancel my game pass.
I am purchasing the PD edition for the extra aircraft and scenery.
Many thanks for your help.
I bought the PD just for the SR22. You’ll love it, if you’ve never flown it before. It’s the Tesla of GA aircraft, IMHO.
I was using the gamepass version and bought the marketplace upgrade. Working fine. As to if you will need to buy the standard if you drop gamepass probably.
Gamepass ultimate is worth paying for though in my opinion. Alot of great games come through and it gives you xbox and pc versions. If you currently have a gold membership they give you 1 to 1 the months remaining on it when you convert. Mine ended up no payments till April 2021 and I only had to pay 79.99 (I had points from Microsoft for a discount) for premium deluxe upgrade since the base is included.
Plus was I finally found a use for the points I had built up over the years.
I upgraded from standard to premium deluxe and i had the game pass.
It clearly says when upgrading that premium deluxe contains ALL of Microsoft Flight sim + the listed items.
So i can`t really see why you would need the game pass and purchase standard edition after upgrading…