Do you know if the issue quite a number of steam users have reported with the marketplace denying them the ability to purchase addons (stuck on ‘purchase pending’) and showing different pricing is widespread or has been fixed?
I have installed it on an Windows 10 install that was installed 2 years ago, so no clean install at all. My current Steam library is around 1.8 TB on an HDD and 700 GB on an NVMe SSD.
No issues during the installation at all. Only small issues with click points which are known during playing. Spend yesterday evening flying with 5 others around the world with out any issues.
Software is interesting stuff, for some people it causes a lot of issues, for many others no issues at all.
The Steam version had a issue with providing the correct Digital Licence file. One of the steps to fix this was to reboot the game + Steam, so maybe that is what hapend during your reboot cycle resulting in the additional download.
As for the issue that you are describing, I cannot help you since my installattion went without any issue. The best thing to do is create an support ticket in Zendesk.
MSFS stated, log out of the applications and log back and it’ll reauthenticate you to the content (force update the list of what purchases you have).
https://www.flightsimulator.com/known-issues/
I wish people would stop speaking on my behalf 
. We could argue l if it’s what has been promised (10 different people have 11 different interpretations of what has been promised).
But in my case it’s at least on par with what I “expected”, when I measure it with other major releases (including flight simulators).
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“Nor any of us…”
Yeah, you’re not everyone’s representative! Sorry, you didn’t get what you expected, though. I got what I was promised! Had a smooth install on day one. And I’m thrilled with the sim!
Wow . . . .MadScud. Your screenname is apropos. As always, different strokes for different folks. In my case, I was at 75% capacity on my 500GB SSD and my 1TB HDD. So springing for a new 1TB SSD was a great idea. I also considered the plethora of goodies from 3rd party developers in the near future for MSFS2020. I will be hitting the wall very soon.
I’m sure there are other simmers with capacity issues similar to mine. My aforementioned recommendation would be more valuable to them. Should I have provided all of this detail to avoid your irate? Maybe for you but others would have been bored to tears. Therefore it’s up to the reader to translate the applicability of my or any other recommendation. Getting angry seems excessive. I’m off to the clouds!!
Oh, does anyone know if we can develop custom checklists like we could in FSX and P3D? I have an elegant workaround in my other posts using MCE.
It’s the new normal for games. It’s happening for a few years. Release first, patch later-mantra is bad. I can understand that simulations are always a long term project. AC, ACC, AMS 1 & 2, Raceroom Experience, rFactor 2, iRacing are racing simulations and are a longterm project. There will be always stuff to iron out, etc.
However, these companies are not million or billion companies like Microsoft is. From Microsoft I expect to have a ‘finished’ simulation-game. Everything FSX, X-plane and Prepare3D has should and must have been in FS2020 right from the start; charts, better checklists, working DME/VOR, working G1000’s, C172 Gauge and C172 G1000 swapped, better world map and flight planning and much much much more. Even include all these mods like littlenavmap and much more in the game, instead of outside the sim.
it’s crazy to release such a barebone sim. It’s like it’s The Sims all over again. Releasing expansions/DLC for Sims 1. Then bring out Sims 2 barebones, so people have to buy ‘all’ the DLC again to have. Rise and repeat for The Sims 3, 4 and incoming 5. Its crazy. You’ve to put all the stuff from these years in FS2020 and then make FS2020 better. Not releasing somewhat barebones sim, with non-functioning G1000’s and such. From a billion-company I expect better, much better.
Edit: Oops. Topic is old 
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I’m wrote the OP. Glad to see that, while old, this thread still has legs.
And I still have not bought the game because all the forums show the key bug is clearly alive and kicking. Will what tomorrow brings (Aug 27) change my mind? It will be another moment in which to gauge the extent to which MS has been rattled by the download/install problems (the behind the scenes stuff at Steam-- whatever accounts for the locked forum, the curious reboot of the ratings yesterday–suggest an interesting back story as Steam was having to navigate a problem that was entirely of MS’s making). Here’s hoping for something positive.