All these bugs and glitches are frustrating yes… and some are quite ridiculous for a game that isn’t classified as a Beta or in Early Release.
BUT, I remember when FSX was released. I eagerly purchased it as soon as it was available, installed it and continued where I had left off in FS9. I had landed at Osaka RJBB in FS9 the day before, and was amazed when I loaded up RJBB in FSX and saw moving vehicles on the apron and generally better graphics. Then I tried to pan the camera, jump. jump. jump… I was getting 6-8 FPS 
Then dealing with crash to desktops, lots of other bugs was frustrating at the time.
It took them a while but after a few updates and SP’s we got a great game, better performance and new features. Not to mention 1000’s of Third Party addons that greatly improved game experience.
It may take a few months (maybe even 6-8) but I can see the amazing potential of this game just from the release version! Have faith, this game is going to be one hell of a flight sim! 
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I also remember Microsoft firing everyone that worked on it because of the mess it turned out to be.. lol
Don get me wrong I love MSFS and its 872346576243576848765325 times better than FSX..
But I have a I7 and 1070 GTX and 20gb or ram and I still cant run FSX without its crashing..or with everything maxed out and I think I should be able too…
FSX was better than nothing but I think at that point Xplane was better , just not as user freindly..
I agree give it time MSFS will be best video game ever.
OH yah try turning off multiplayer when flying around Japan… SOOO many people are flying around Japan right now its causing issues… alot of CTD with MP on… Turn it off
and try again.
Its a high school nickname that stuck 
But will it become the best flight simulator ever?
That is a completely different goal. One that seems to be getting further away, not closer, with each update.
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No hardware available to consumers can run MSFS with everything maxed out according to many PC expert reviews, so expecting that with a GTX1070 (I have the Ti version) is folly.
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It already is the best flight sim ever.
It’s definitely the prettiest, but it’s got a long way to go till it’s the best.
FS2004 had more working features on release than MSFS currently does.
Anyway, I’m about to shoot an approach, so I’ve got to go and get the GPS setup…
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Agree with you @Norman999933, FS2004 was best at launch. MSFS 2020 has the potential to be developed into something we couldn’t dream about 10-15 years ago
Yes - talk about giving the end user the proverbial shaft. Microsoft decided shortly after that the flight sim genre didn’t fit there overall marketing strategy at the time and handed pink slips out to the people at ACES. This left us all scrambling to develop fixes to things you mentioned, plus highway traffic that seemed to move like they were qualifying at Indy, which meant .cfg changes, which meant adding something here from someone over there that developed a quick fix for the problem here which led to glitches elsewhere that ultimately meant you spent more time trying to undo the ever burgeoning domino effects of failure than actually flying anything at all and made me wish for all it’s inferior graphics I had just stuck with Century of Flight.
This is precisely why I’m keeping things as vanilla as I can while patiently waiting for official patches and updates for now. I’ve waited several decades to actually see come to fruit with what we have now. Waiting a few more months ain’t gonna hurt me none.
So, in March, I upgraded a very old PC with one I bought at Costco. It’s an i7-9700f, RTX 2060 Super, 16GB RAM (upgraded to 32GB of Crucial 3000), and an SSD that I have since added a 1TB M.2 NVMe drive to augment). I thought, "Finally! I’ll be able to run FSX on MAX settings!) and I did. Looked fantabulous.
And then I saw MSFS was coming out. “■■■■. It’s already obsolete for this.”
Even FS9 had its issues out of the tin. (Yes, I still have the original steel box somewhere.) That’s why FS9.1 was issued. If I remember right, in addition to some blaringly missing bridges in and around NYC, it also had a memory leak that caused crashes. 9.1 added the bridges and fixed the performance, then it was off to the races. Other than addons, the only thing left to do was get your hands on the no-CD cracked exe that MS officially frowned on, but everybody used.
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Oh the conumdrums of software and hardware!
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I know, right?
YOU BLEW IT UP! ■■■■ YOU, INNOVATION! ■■■■ YOU STRAIGHT TO HE…
Oh, sorry. Had a Planet of the Apes moment.
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Correct. And even FSX with poor FPS had all the planes “working” upon initial release- and I think everyone knows what I mean by “working”. FPS and performance problems are common in any sim or game and also vary from user to user because they are also hardware related. The flight-sim-specific issues, the plane handling, auotopilot, AI traffic, etc.- to release a new flight sim with those issues is really not acceptable. If you can’t at least match the competition in having those advertised things working, you should not release the product until you do. But it was released and those of us who counted the days are justifiably disappointed. And, yes, all we can do is be patient at this point.
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