Yes - and we can’t believe that there are no timezone specific launch window to ease the burden. See - we all have something to consider
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I expect better from microsoft infrastructure. You clearly knew from the 2020 release what kind of traffic to expect. I know the traffic is obviously huge but come on - this is microsoft and not your game studio around the corner.
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Took 3h to get to 97% now stuck with “unusually long…” message 
In fairness, when you design a game that requires a constant server connection you shouldn’t be surprised when you have this many server connections in the first hour 
Same problem as you, twice stuck on 97%, reboot and go through this again, I DON’T THINK SO!!!
They did-
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microsoft azure servers caught fire guys, the world was not ready for server based gaming
someone write if something gets unlocked! we are all stuck! … absurd… but in reality technically what should be done?? to understand the timing…
While waiting:
I see 2 Community folders, Steam installation.
Installed 2024 to D:/steamapps etc. Community folder there.
But also a Community folder in C:/users etc etc.
2020 only had the C:/users community-folder.
Anyone knows which to use?
Too many users for me too now after quitting after over an hr at 97%. I’m done for tonight. I’ll check in again tomorrow morning.
It’s been 4.25 hours and counting …
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I’m disappointed the most about the poor communication and feedback, here in the forum and on the Top Known Issues page. It has been updated with an issue for Steam users, and the “we sincerely apologise” paragraph is so important it was duplicated(!), but no mention of the server load problems. Perhaps because it’s hoped to be a temporary problem.
With more and more of the US contingent getting online to play as their working days finish, I’m very doubtful of a resolution until tomorrow.
Since quitting at 97% a while back, I’ve never made it past 0%. Also giving up.
I didn’t expect a completely smooth launch day. But I didn’t think launch day was going to be 20th November either 
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From bad to worse.
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Maybe we’ll be offered a free ‘Club 97’ livery?
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With luck, it might be the 20th. So far I have yet to see any indication MS/Asobo have triaged the issues, let alone worked out any solution.
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Im by no means a cloud/server expert, but wouldnt it be possible for them to grant acess to certain regions/countries one at a time if the servers are overloaded?
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Sim has been delayed untill Christmas 2024…
Same thing; it didn’t pass above 0%; it seems their servers died completely.
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servers are cooked and burned down
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This launch is worse than I expected and after FOUR HOURS stuck at 97% and so many saying here and on Avsim forums that a restart puts you to the back of the queue I give it. Invested a lot of money in new hardware for this launch. Plenty of live streamers sitting twiddling their thumbs for hours waiting for it to load then getting queue errors.
The product currently is not fit for purpose.