So many basic problems begs the question... Did they do any testing? I think I bought a BETA

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Some examples of basic things you would find in a simple software functionality testing…

Load every airplane at night… Do all the lights work inside and out. NO…

When you set sim rate does it work correct in flight… NO…
Both the world moves at 2X, 4X or 8X but the airplane and all its systems still think they are in 1X. So flight time and in some cases fuel burn is still in 1X. So you do a 4 hour flight and get 1 hour of fuel burn and flight clock shows one hour.

You can go on and on with simple basic functionality that is not working that is critical to game play and simulation.

So we all paid $100-200 to be beta testers for Microsoft? I know a few people who already received refunds and will consider buying it again in six months when it is ready.

I want to support the simulator but making us pay full price for a game that is at best a beta is not treading the us with any respect.

It is now obvious why they didn’t allow a public beta test because if this was better known it would have had a huge impact on sales.

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They did not do enough testing that is obvious

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Even MSFS2020 had critical bugs since the release that were never solved, mainly in traffic, ATC and most of the asobo aircraft. Most of them remain unsolved in 2024… It’s an eternal alpha/beta build… Devs just don’t care.

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You’re wrong.

I bought an unstable alpha software.

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They may have done a TON of testing.

Remember, it isn’t QA’s decision to release a piece of software. It is the people far above the QA department’s heads.

They may have a multi-kilometer long bug list of all that we are seeing.

QA can test it and report it, but it isn’t on them to fix it.

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Where are all the testers posting here to say we tested it but they didn’t fix it?

In 2020 they have a huge public pool of testing in 2024 it was not open to a big public beta program. The only public alpha testing they had was a small group for like 24 hours. And the overall results and quality shows.

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