When the game started at 5am CET in Switzerland, I expected everything, but not that it would start 
But suddenly there was an add-on support download on the XBOX. The start in the main menu felt faster than in 2020, but I couldnât play yet because nothing happened for ages when I started a flight. Until I switched off all the multiplayer live stuff in the online options and also switched off the download of the 3D houses. Then, over the next few minutes, more and more planes appeared. I flew a lap over Switzerland with the PC-24, did a few landing challenges and started the career. I wasnât expecting anything in terms of server performance, so I wasnât disappointed at first. But now that the American time zones are starting to play, Iâm stuck in a login queue at startup⊠Why is that? A queue when playing a flight simulator, especially when Iâve previously turned off all multiplayer content?
Well, I bought the game and have a real life, so Iâll continue playing tomorrow⊠or the day after tomorrow, winter is just starting, itâs cold for a long time and enough time to fly 
Im in Norway, getting worse experience each time trying to launch the sim.
1st try, managed to launch sim after 30min loading, but had only 6 aircraft.
2nd try, again 30 min loading, but this time 0 aircraft available.
3rd try, sitting in login queue, and after login queue ended i got login error.
currently on my 4th attempt, sitting in login queue again.
You were warned people. People have been predicting the new one would release with server issues and bugs. Save yourself the frustration over a game and play one that works. FS20 for a few more months.
Whats even more funny is I am impulsive but could see the storm coming. Its MSâŠof course its not going to be ready. Goodluck all bye
Oh and expect a video in a week from now from Jorg saying he is SUPER dissapointed and they are working SUPER hard on creating an environment thatâŠbla bla bla haha just had to put this in.
In the UK- 380Mbps internet
MSFS 2020 connects to a European server
Anyone know how to get a refund for this disaster if itâs bought in MS Store ?
The MS answers arenât very helpfull (no big surprise there)
Too many users⊠After 2h of 12% and activating content 
Very poor start. No communication from Asobo nor Microsoft⊠DisapointingâŠ
If it wasnât a stress test before, it certainly is a stress test now â although the users arenât what they were expecting to be stressing!
That feeling when you buy aviators edition, just to see others play via youtube livestream. 
Oh well. Iâll not fly tonight it seems.
There are millions who arenât able to play, youâre not alone.
If you have purchased an edition other than Standard, your content wonât be available to use on the first launch.
- Workaround: Close the game, and launch the game again.
- We are aware of reports of aircraft missing from the My Library and Aircraft Select screens in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. This issue is related to the server issues we are currently working to resolve. Please stay tuned for further updates
Same here, brother. Iâll leave it be for tonight. The journey is just starting anyway. We going to have some good years ahead.
I couldnât solve it
Iâm waiting to see if anyone can help me here on the forum, as I searched a lot and nothing resolved it. Or maybe Asobo will resolve this, I hope it doesnât take too long.
Literally this. I hate being so negative but thereâs no more excuses. Jorg knows better and didnât do better. And I am not even talking about the fact 90% of us canât even log in. Once you do log in, youâll find it meh at best. I donât see anything ârevolutionaryâ and getting into the 737 Max was average at best. Canât even map my 3rd party TCA Thrustmaster to the planes because the menus make no sense.
How is this even a thing?? How is this revolutionary graphics? It looks half baked at best.
Iâm extremely frustrated. This isnât MSFS 2020. This isnât ânewâ. This should not be happening.
Launch day means all of our planes are there, all of the 2020 content that Jorg and Seb said âwould just workâ should work (note to all: they donât work, most of the 3rd party airliners we all love do not work yet).
But hey, we have career mode. 
And yes, at the dev stream theyâll say sorry and act like it was nothing major. This is what happens literally every single time thereâs something ânewâ in this sim. I donât get it.
Iâm going to wait until you lot have given up for the night and then try to download and play 
then Asia wakes up and it starts all over again.
A login queue is highly suspicious. It could wreck a thin client.
âThere maybe trouble aheadâŠâ
I have âexperienced the new simulatorâ as thoroughly as Microsoft and Asobo will allow me to experience it. OPEN THE POLLS.
Yes its sadâŠthe hype train business model at work
What an embarrassmentâŠ
This is the future of so called âCloudâ based games.
I spend all that money on the Premium Deluxe version and it doesnât even load.
How is it that you buy something and you canât even enjoy it ? Too many players trying to download and play but MS system is collapse and I canât even start the game.
Very poorly executed⊠Very bad !
Will this be Cities Skylines 2 all over again?
Or Worse?