The last three weeks have been spent writing bug reports, taking pictures and videos of the bugs. I spent more than 23 hours writing bug reports instead of flying. Today I realized that I’m not normal, that I’m wasting my time. What does this simulator give me more than MSFS 2020? I asked myself. The answer is that nothing.
Landscape, visuals are bad (Blurry textures, bad LOD settings)
LOD settings for airplanes, airports, airport vehicles are terrible
Airplanes, helicopters are full of bugs
There is hardly any improvement in the weather development
The career is ridiculous, full of bugs. It reminds me more of a video game than a simulator
Game controller settings are disastrous
Menu system, settings are opaque
Third-party products do not work properly
The performance of the simulator is no better (stutters, lags)
The servers, cloud service do not work properly, there is no stability, reliability
I listed the most important things, of course I could continue. It is frustrating, a big disappointment. I had a lot of faith in the MSFS 2024 simulator, a big letdown. I was faced with the fact that I was deceived. MSFS 2024 is a very early BETA version. Thank you, but I do not want to be a beta tester.
I decided to stay with the MSFS 2020 simulator, and with the many add-ons I purchased.
Yes, i was doing the same for VR and i realized that was for nothing. They never seemed to care about fixing them. MSFS 2024 will take probably 3-4 years again to fix even the simplest bugs and then once you feel that you can finally enjoy it, BAMMMM! a new simulator will be announced.
Wish they worked for me. have to go in every loadup to controllers to reactivate the profiles sometimes even if I change planes. Does`nt even recognise my CLS60 bindings.
Now asked for a refund. Back to 2020 that works.
You are so right with your statement.
My fear is that in a short time MS might decide to cancel FS2020 due to being focused on FSS2024. Despite all the promises made.
Maybe it is just time to move on completely to something new.
I do not want to invest in any other module in FS2020 anymore because I lost trust in MS.
If you have a look at some of the smaller 3rd party developers and see what they are able to create in FS2020 with sometime only a 1 man show it is hard to understand that MS could not at least get one high fidelity airplane working properly. 800 people working on this project and not one of them seems to be capable of doing what a 1 man show can make.
And do not get me wrong, I do not believe it is the fault of the single developer at MS/Asobo it is poor project management in my mind.
Why not start this with a small number of perfectly working planes and have a roadmap when you will get more inside. Even the gameplay aspects could have been on a roadmap. Why not adding Career mode with SU1 or 2…
If they bring back “my hangar” that includes aircraft background info + aircraft collection inspection like in 2020, 2024 Is my king, other things are not priority for my experience in using the sim. if it wasn’t back, i will stick with 2020 & 2024 until they shutdown the servers hopefully thats far away from now.
The sim was 3 months behind schedule at launch and launched without the marketplace or a fully-functional content manager. “Early access alpha” is total toxic hot potato kryptonite now after a few high profile failures (namely, KSP2), but nevertheless, that’s what we got on Nov 19, still have, and will still have for months if not a couple years, if dev follows the same arc it did with 2020.
I also have been taking time to fill out bug reports – shouting at Asobo isn’t going to make them move faster, but trying to help out with bug reporting probably has an impact.
Like it or not, 2024 is the future of flight simming, and if you want to bury your head in the sand the world is going to leave you behind.
My biggest gripe is that we are supposed to vote on what should be fixed. It is one thing to vote for additional features but to sit and upvote that the landing lights on the Cirrus jet should point straight instead of straight down is mind boggling.
You’re not voting on the priority of what should be fixed. Think of it as a “me too” button - it’s a signal to Asobo that OP’s problem isn’t OP’s fault.
Surely the promise was a supported simulator?
2020 is now the obsolete one and will sunset once 2024 is running sweetly.
How would any other reality make practical sense?
again, the world will pass you by. You’re not going to turn the ship around. It’s not an effective form of protest. But nevertheless anyone who doesn’t want to ride the initial bumpy couple of years is welcome to stay on 2020, and then come running back to 2024 when the content for 2020 slows to a trickle and 2024’s dev is in a more 1.0-worthy state.
Same, I’m back using FS2020. Apparently updates for 3rd party planes which are available in FS2024 don’t even get through, probably something to do with the market place not being available until 2025. So yeah, your post kind of sums it up. There isn’t any benefit, all the new content is locked behind a very bugged career mode. I came to the conclusion that it isn’t worth doing the career to get to the fire fighting, SAR and crop-dusting stuff. I just accept the fact that unless they make these missions playable outside career mode, I just will never have access to them. It is what it is, I know one thing for sure, I won’t throw them any more money. I will buy FS2028 when FS2032 is around the corner.
In these three last weeks I asked myself why people instead of flying happy with FS2020 now stable and reliable, preferred to argue with FS2024 just for the pleasure of the new toy.
Perhaps this question would be better directed to those simmers who paid up to £110 for 2020 and have no wish to move to 2024 even if it does eventually run sweetly?
Shutting the sim down any time soon would not only be letting these people massively down it would also have a pretty big knock on effect on MS’s reputation and especially so given the promises of continued support for the first sim.
You don’t have to turn it off immediately, but equally, the obsolete version won’t keep getting updated indefinitely. If it still works in its current form for a few years, that should be plenty I would have thought.
I feel sorry for new users that don’t know or ignore MS’s history with the sim and other products as well. They learned that players will PAY to ‘beta’ test a new release, as once again many are finding out now. MS releases the sim just prior to Xmas to maximize profits regardless of the sims play-ability. It’s all part of their plan and users fall for it every time.
I said on day 1 it would take 6 months to a year to get 2024 usable and that’s my timeline for purchasing any new MS product, I learned my lesson with MS long ago, I hope others will too.
hopefully thats far away from now.