Unfortunately, the amount of storage space you would need is way way beyond what is even viable to cater for at a consumer level.
You can have 100 GB fibre but if the site your trying to connect to is overwhelmed ( like MS is right now) the bandwidth will be low.
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Well I am pretty dumfounded right now.
I finally get passed the Activating packages. Initial look at graphics setting, but left it alone. Looked at controller settings - quickly found it to be worse than before. Decided to progress to Customise identity only for the white circle to go round and round leaving me stuck on that screen.
You guessed it I had to quit the sim and restart it only to go through the Activating packages nonsense again… having only just done it…
Oh and of course… I am now back in and the Customise Identity is just sitting there with the white circle going round and round. Hopeless.
so are msfs servers still overloaded?
I’ve been loading for an hour an made it 14%. I made it to 97% earlier but then it sat there for 30 min so I killed it thinking it was bugged. Maybe I should have waited. This is now way slower.
I would assume so based on all the posts. I pre-ordered but have no intention of attempting to install for at least a week or more. I’ll stick to 2020 until things settle down and drastically improve. If not I’ll request a refund.
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Let’s hope this are only the first-days issues. I wouldn’t want to uninstall it because I waited months to get this flipping game.
Don’t uninstall, just wait, I suggest a week at the least and monitor the forum to get an idea of where things stand server wise. It will only frustrate or anger you. Menus are different and learning the 2024 version will take some time and while this MESS is going on it sounds like a great majority of things don’t work or they are extremely slow and cludgy.
Bought it on Steam. Returned and got the refund. Fortunately I saw the issues everyone else had and tried for less than 2 hrs and finally gave up when I could not even get to the start screen.
I believe I might stay away from this version for a few reasons.
- Do I want to be at the mercy of the internet connection to just play the game?
- DO I have to download gigs of data every time I play it and then re-download it again next day for the same flight?
- I had heard that some data can be stored locally but it has not been conformed nor optimized to my liking
- I would rather buy a new HDD than waste money on repeated downloads of the same data. I hope I am wrong but I am not convinced yet. Hopefully in the future they will let us store at least locally for the career mode when we might be using just one airport to fly from.
- I would stick to MSFS 2020 for now as it is at lest playable on my system and I did inves quite bit to buld it.
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Here is a nice story to perk up my fellow simmers.
1: hey, there is a great restaurant that is new in town, let’s get some nice dinner
2: of course I too heard a lot about it, let’s go.
1: But they ask that we pay upfront, is that okay
2: of course. I don’t mind paying for some great food upfront
They go to the restaurant. Reservation was encouraged but not required. So they paid the cost and stood in line. After about 2 hours they were able to get to the table. The waiter presented with a beautiful menu that was not only filled with beautiful pictures of the food but also played a nice video about the food plates… Then the waiter went away…
Waiter returned after 2 hours and said, “sorry sir, we did not expect such a rush in our first day so you have been placed on the waiting queue to place your order”. The friends had already paid a non-refundable fee upfront so they waited hoping to have a great dinner with a lot of saliva in their mouths. Drooling, they waited.
Waiter returned and said : “sorry sir, our Owen could not handle the load and is broken. We are trying to get it fixed but can’t tell you how long it will take. You are free to wait or perhaps come back in about a month when we don’t have that much rush and hopefully should have a working Owen by then”.
Disappointed, the friends left the restaurant and back to their favorite haunt and had the dinner after 6 hours. The food tasted great after such a long wait and hunger.
To this date, the friends are waiting for the new restaurant to be functional as they still continued to drool remembering the great presentation of the savory dishes. And waited, and waited…
you mean Nov 30th, 2025? 
I’m in no way saying the server issue isn’t problematic and that folks who have dealt with the heartbreak and frustration aren’t entitled to be mad - I know I would be. But your analogy is missing something:
It’d be like a restaurant opening up for which you paid upfront for, let’s say, four years of meals, and they couldn’t handle the rush and had to turn you away for the first few days, maybe a week or two at most. You then continue to eat there for one to two meals a day, five or more days a week for the next four years. You’re not paying upfront for just one meal. If you were, your analogy would hold more water (the fact that we have to eat notwithstanding).
I completely get the frustration, and there are other problems with the “meal” as well, but we can make better, more convincing analogies with some perspective.
It’ll slowly diminish as they’ll never have as many concurrent user login attempts as they had on day 1. It’ll only have fewer and fewer as folks return the product and walk away. (I’ve uninstalled the product due to a flaw in their rolling cache, not to return until I get any word otherwise.)
I’ve seen this sentiment in few places now and I still don’t accept is as a good excuse. Perhaps because I already am paying for MSFS among other occasional game I want to try via a monthly subscription and in 4 years I will have paid enough to buy 10 standard editions, but I still expect things to work when they release/are made available to me.
I remember the lofty goals of 2020 about growing community and bringing in a new generation of flight sim enthusiasts. I would reckon the idea is still there somewhere, but launch issues like this will turn some people away permanently - whether they paid upfront and refunded or are sticking with their subscriptions.
Personally I think the MS Asobo responses about server capacity are full of ■■■■. But that’s me.
Again, it’s a matter of perspective. At the end of the day, you might be paying $179 per interaction over four years, or $.01 per interaction (and even less per hour), depending on how much you use it. For me, without any add-ons (including hardware), it’s going to be about $0.44 per time I boot the sim, give or take, probably about $0.09 per hour I’ll use it. I’m not going to get bent out of shape for a few dollars (which I’d probably make up, anyway), and I’ve been fortunate enough to not have to deal with the issues yet, so it’s a cow’s opinion to me.
But folks have the right to stand on principle and talk with their wallets. I think their voices will be heard. That’s not disputed here.
However, the analogy using a single instance was still flawed.
lol - my bet is that connectivity will be the #1 Issue for the next four years…
Guess the “It will never be this bad again”, answer didn’t age well. Saturday after Thanks Giving, can’t login to Career missions at all. Won’t load.
For the majority of people they aren’t having this issue, so it is better.