Hello all! We are aware about issues when trying to launch MSFS 2020 where’s it’s stuck on “checking for updates”. Moderators have escalated this to MS/Asobo to look into (as well as some issues with launching MSFS 2024). Please note that it is a weekend and this may take a bit for them.
This is a joke. This has happened on MULTIPLE weekends in the past few months. By now they should have found a solution, not asking us to wait because it’s (yet another) weekend.
Also this outage has been going on at least 3.5 to 4 hours now, possibly longer, so when was it escalated? Do these MS/Asobo guys even have monitoring in place to get alerted before hundreds of messages by frustrated customers pour in?
And now the relevant major thread has been switched to slow mode? Best to close it entirely so that no more frustrated messaged will be added there and the problem will be hidden under the carpet.
Until next weekend.