This is no rant at all, but I am starting to become really worried. I hope moderators also have the decency to not immediately delete this topic, as it is actually important talk for the dev team.
The game at this stage, is broken, period. Not even the hardest fanboy can tell me otherwise. I am with Flight Simulator since 4.0, that means early 90s. I have played ALL of them extensively, and this is the first time, I am starting to feel, the game won’t get any more major improvements.
So many aspects are heavily and unnecessarily bugged and so broken, that many things could have been fixed already. Fanboys will ask me “which?” but there are so many I won’t even know where to begin. I do not even care about passengers stuck outside of a plane all flight long, which is an easy fix and 6 weeks later, it’s still there. However, planes spawning in airports that don’t exist, end-of-the-world event type surface (and windsaloft) winds on nearly every Career mission, uncontrollable trim bugs, other such bugs that actually make you waste your time, could have easily been fixed, but haven’t. Not even official words of acknowledgement that they exist, nothing.
Except for the disastrous server launch, actually nothing of importance has been fixed, nothing.
There is also no roadmap, no transparency, nothing, as to when things might get fixed, it’s as of now a totally ignored fact, safe to say, MSFS2024 is an alpha-test, that people paid full price to play.
I am still glad I got MSFS2020 ofc, but what is very disappointingly sad, is the fact that career mode is actually an awesome addition, I am enjoying it just as much as the early bush trips in 2020 (the later ones were rushed and lacked in fun), but it’s really depressing to see how a game with so much potential, has had not even the simplest of things fixed.
It seems like we have to accept the game for what it is. A broken yet addictive game to play, but this behavior by Asobo is just very unprofessional, there is really no excuse, why the game is still identical as in the beginning in terms of bugs that could have been easily fixed by now.