Advice for MS

No doubt many will disagree but after playing 2020 a bit and coming across old bugs that haven’t been fixed am i really surprised at 2024? So my advice is.

Scrap 2024 for now, work on it and release in a years time ( and dump the cloud bit entirely)

Go back and actually fix some of these 2020 bugs that are simply ridiculous in a modern flightsim ( like runway lights not being on at destination airports) and clean the mess you made of Greenland.

I’m so frustrated I’m about to pull out what little hair I have left. The sim crashes too often. Too many times I can’t even get in. I’m almost ready to ask for a refund.

You are quite correct. I’m now having a blast with it after an initial dreadful 3 days.

  • It’s launched, it isn’t going to get un-launched, now it’s working.
  • The ‘cloud bit’ isn’t getting dumped. That’s just basic reality.

There are lots of bugs, but there are three main things that cause people the majority of the crashes.

The first is the CDN servers in some areas seem to still have some performance issues.

The second is people who during the initial server issues got incomplete or corrupted install files. An uninstall then reinstall should address those.

The third is crashes from bad addons that are being streamed. If you had Marketplace content, it is being streamed automatically whether you want it or not. There is a work around posted on the forums to disable the streaming of addons you don’t want loaded, resolving some of the crashes or failures to load.

Please point to the work around post

Possible workaround for incompatible MSFS2020 marketplace packages in MSFS 2024 (PC) - Discussion Hub / General Discussion - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

I asked the mods to post this link in the pinned message. But nothing… It’s driving me nuts, this quite senseless, and over the top ‘good news’ message. They should post links to the two or three most important posts there.

Just got an honest reply to my request. MS rather wants to spend time solving the issue than linking to a workaround that might confuse some simmers and lead to more support calls.
I have to agree with this point of view. So here’s hoping that they can solve the activation issue quickly. Especially for the xbox simmers.