I totally agree with this sentiment it is the same view I had when 2020 was released. Ultimately, a commercially driven deadline for release to the market in order to generate revenue.
Don’t get me wrong, I still think that decision would have been made based on a review(s) of development progress. Ultimately, though a switch from meeting certain development milestones to a release deadline once those had been reached. Effectively, "ok well done, you now have x months until we release so finalise and fix what you can in the meantime.
Yes. I used to work in corporate America, so I know how deadlines are set, & engineers left putting in 16 hr days & pulling their hair out to meet them!
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Nothing wrong with deadlines perse, but they have to be realistic (which they arn’t most of the time). That is where the problem is.
They should have released it in a stone cold plain vanilla state, only 2024 items per tier you bought then slowly introduce any new and first party ported items WAY before adding MP/3rd party. The only ‘add ons’ being the promised 2024 versions for Deluxe/Premium Deluxe prior owners included(which would be native 2024 items as well).
And tinkered/updated from there to stability. Technically the only release date promise was to provide MSFS 2024 in a working state. Not EVERYTHING NOW! Opening the 2020 library is Chaos³
They should have disabled all the 2020 add ons by default not forced them to stream.
That would have prevented all those people stuck on 97% loading.
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Indeed, I bought a game pass for one month, because FS2024 is on my Christmas List and I didn’t want to wait (switching from FS2020).
Apart from the day 1 issues to get it running at all, I seem to have been one of the lucky ones that hasn’t had many issues since. I really feel for those who have.
What I think would be interesting (and I really hope they do it) is for Jörg to openly state how many people installed it in the first 24/48 hours and how that compares to what they had planned for.
What we have now is a beta. Let’s accept that fact, no matter what MS/Asobo calls it. Let’s work together to improve MSFS 2024, hopefully MS/Asobo will listen to us.
MSFS 2025
2024 is not going to be a well liked year in people’s memory and 2025 on a marketing level is just WAY MORE COOL.
It would have been prudent to have set the release for next year and have all the extra breathing room.
Pulling for ‘24’ by releasing it in the last few weeks of the year was a bit dumb.
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You are correct.
We have a ‘Smart’ computating machine 
The server serves us volatile data they don’t want us to keep.
Don’t know why they bother with the year in the naming anyway, and like you say 2025 is weeks away, its a bit of a strange time to release when calling it 2024.
If they had thought about it, and wanted the year in the title, they should have named it msfs 2025, even if it did release towards the end of 2024.
I’ve worked in the computing industry for years and I was actually there on Flight Sim 1 in 1982!
My experience with computer systems provided by companies tends to be the same and is the same with FS2024, to keep costs down the system first goes on line with minimum of resource, then it is increased as demand requires (you are seeing this now).
I use FS2020 and have upgraded my PC ready for FS2024 but then held off purchasing because I knew (as always), that day one would be full of sickness.
Why is this industry so different to the others, why are people happy to purchase a product that they know may not work on day one, you wouldn’t purchase a washing machine that didn’t wash clothes when you first plug it in.
Microsoft released MS2024 early to beat Christmas with the initial users being used as Beta testers (it’s cheaper), I’m sure in time the sim will become great but not for everybody and that includes me.
I live in rural England with only a 50Mps internet which is the fastest I can get, so I will not be purchasing MS2024 and I am not in the minority. FS2024 was created under the illusion that everybody has a fast internet, unfortunately this has resulted in restricting their market.
Who knows, perhaps in the future Microsoft are hoping to be able to charge a monthly subscription for server access to the more “pretty features” of MS2024…
Only the future will tell.
Dear Microsoft, please create an off-line mode.
Thing is - right or wrong - we expected the FS24 washing machine to work. Maybe a little vibration while we level it.
The auto installing non native first party 2020 add-ons is really bothering me. I’d rather it was just the naked game with a big checkbox at the beginning asking otherwise.
I still haven’t installed it. I think I may completely nuke 2020 and give it a go, I haven’t flown in 2020 in weeks anyway waiting this out. Let the cloud find what I own rather then something in my hard drive. I only have MSFS may just nuke the whole thing.
Could just leave the third party add on library it it’s custom folder in case I want to reinstall 2020.
Not much they could have done. It makes no economic sense to have enough server capacity for the huge influx of players during the first few days. So the only thing to do is to ride out the storm, until it stabilized on its own.
I think they aware of the issue regarding 2020 adons being force in to FS24. Read this statement:
No timescale on when it will be done.
I just don’t even want my 2020 stuff in there until I want it in there and then decide to put it in there