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Flight Simulator 2024 is now the lowest-rated AAA game in Steam history

Mayar

Member
There’s a difference between defending a corpo and being an adult who appreciates the complexity of todays technology and that things like this happen.
Next time you buy a car or some home appliance and it won't turn on or start on the day you buy it and you call tech support and they tell you to wait a week. I want you to remember that sentence you wrote.
The product was put up for sale, people spent money (some quite a bit, depends on the edition) and they expected a working product. Or is it no longer possible to expect that you will be sold a finished product in 2024?
 

TintoConCasera

I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
It was merely implied that the attitudes were not that of a reasoned adult.
Pay money for product. Product doesn't work as intended. Complain until it's fixed or ask for a refund.
Pay money for product. Product doesn't work as intended. Make excuses such as "it's not that bad really" or "this should be expected!".

Tell me which attitude out of those two better reflects that one a reasonable adult.
 

BigLee74

Member
Next time you buy a car or some home appliance and it won't turn on or start on the day you buy it and you call tech support and they tell you to wait a week. I want you to remember that sentence you wrote.
The product was put up for sale, people spent money (some quite a bit, depends on the edition) and they expected a working product. Or is it no longer possible to expect that you will be sold a finished product in 2024?
Nah, can’t argue with folk that are now comparing buying cars and being told a week to wait until you can use them. This is like levels above! 😂

If you are unhappy, contact the devs and get your game refunded.
 

StereoVsn

Gold Member
Nobody was called a child. It was merely implied that the attitudes were not that of a reasoned adult.

Try and pull out cards all you want, I’m a software dev of 28 years so know a thing or two.

Have I stopped or requested any discussion to stop? Good point well made.


See ya. I’m fying loops round my town. Exactly like I am doing around your points of discussion.
Are you an MS employee if so then I can understand the defense. Otherwise it’s baffling.
 

Mayar

Member
Nah, can’t argue with folk that are now comparing buying cars and being told a week to wait until you can use them. This is like levels above! 😂

If you are unhappy, contact the devs and get your game refunded.
No, you are already trying to take one product beyond the others. Any product that is put up for sale must meet standards and certain quality criteria. The fact that we make an exception for some products but criticize others, this is exactly what leads to such cases when some are allowed and others are not. And as a result, it becomes absolutely normal to release a product for sale that was clearly not ready for launch and is in an extremely raw state.
 

HeisenbergFX4

Gold Member
HeisenbergFX4 HeisenbergFX4 did say this one was coming in hot. Well here it is.

I appreciate the heads up, and I'm glad I didn't pre-order. I'll grab this early next year once they hopefully have all of this figured out and they actually start allowing people to download more (if not all) of the files locally.
Whenever it was said that they knew then it was a buggy mess and assume its safe for me to say something now but I was part of a large scale player test and had these same issues, I tried many times and never once got the game to load

I don't care what they said on their stream they knew this game was going to have a terrible launch
 

TVexperto

Member
I couldnt make a single flight yet as well. As soon as iam on the world map and click the "flight" button...I am getting either an endless loading screen (again) or instant freeze. What a shitshow! :messenger_pensive:
Yup, the fact that 24 hours later the only screenshots you see is loading screen or invisible planes or cities not loading .. not a good sign
 

Black_Stride

do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Oh so now what, steam and xbox not friends no more? Or do you guys only praise steam when it fits the narrative?

Holy shit you actually posted.
Im surprised you didnt just use a laugh or or empathy reaction.

You feeling okay my guy?


P.S
This thread is about Steam user reviews.
 

poppabk

Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Next time you buy a car or some home appliance and it won't turn on or start on the day you buy it and you call tech support and they tell you to wait a week. I want you to remember that sentence you wrote.
The product was put up for sale, people spent money (some quite a bit, depends on the edition) and they expected a working product. Or is it no longer possible to expect that you will be sold a finished product in 2024?
Never bought a new car? They tell you to baby it for the first 1000 miles or so.
But like I said they should have staggered the release and have had bought versions have access a week earlier.
 

Heisenberg007

Gold Journalism
Wonder if MS will ever succeed in releasing a new flight sim without bugs.

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Xbox Game Studios:

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I mean it's alot of peoples most anticipated game and I personally know people who took days to play this and this sucks for them.
Of all these server bullshit Microsoft and azure should be the last one with these problems.
I know it's much more data and stress than any other game but still not acceptable in 2024.
With the issues solved this is without competition my goty
I just love flying around
 
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mckmas8808

Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
That’s the entire point but once what should be enough hits the limit you can’t just unlock 50 idle servers instantly. Think the Netflix Jake Paul fight they should of been able to scale it’s not that easy as it’s happening but.

They’ll sort this out by the end of the week.

This is what pisses me off with corporations today. They just WILL NOT allocate enough money and resources to stop this from happening. Netflix and Microsoft should be embarrased when this stuff happens. What's the point of being a $3 Trillion company or the worldwide leader in TV streaming, if issues like this keep happening?!
 

ReBurn

Gold Member
When I started the game and it told me I was in a queue to play I uninstalled it. I'll try again in a couple of months when it's ready.
 

Buggy Loop

Member
Am I glad to almost never buy games day 1. Fuck FOMO, almost always better to wait.

But servers should scale easily for this, that’s what servers do. So they either underestimated the demand big time and are squeezed for allocation, or something fundamentally is broken as HeisenbergFX4 HeisenbergFX4 said it didn’t work either during a relatively small test?
 

deriks

4-Time GIF/Meme God
Maybe the rushed feeling was true

15 minutes of loading?! This is MGS4 installation shit level of fucked up
 

Loope

Member
Ah yes, jump at the breach! Defend that corpo!

Also, I didn’t waste anything but got lots and lots of amusement. Plus MS is one of my favorite corpos to dunk on so it’s 2x fun for 1x “wasting time”.
Soooo, you admit you don't care about the game, you're only here to shit on MS. Nice.

There is also the thread of Stalker 2 if you want to shit some more.
 
Whenever it was said that they knew then it was a buggy mess and assume its safe for me to say something now but I was part of a large scale player test and had these same issues, I tried many times and never once got the game to load

I don't care what they said on their stream they knew this game was going to have a terrible launch

My god this was happening during player testing. I do not understand why MS continues to do this to themselves.
 
I’m seriously considering a refund on Steam. I was only able to play it for a few minutes yesterday after spending hours in queue. A truly disastrous launch, MS should be ashamed.

Power of the Cloud strikes again. This is the last time I do a day one buy one on a hyped MS game like this especially one using the Cloud.
 

StereoVsn

Gold Member
Soooo, you admit you don't care about the game, you're only here to shit on MS. Nice.

There is also the thread of Stalker 2 if you want to shit some more.
? I love Flight Sim 2020 and was planning to purchase 2024, and most likely still will do so just after a few months.

I hate what MS has been generally peddling over the last few years.

Edit: Separately, why is iOS autocorrect so terrible these days. I swear they regressed.
 
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StereoVsn

Gold Member
I’m seriously considering a refund on Steam. I was only able to play it for a few minutes yesterday after spending hours in queue. A truly disastrous launch, MS should be ashamed.

Power of the Cloud strikes again. This is the last time I do a day one buy one on a hyped MS game like this especially one using the Cloud.
Definitely refund. Just wait a few weeks or months till things corrected and play Flight Sim 2020 instead for now. There is no point in rewarding MS.
 
They should have learned from Activision and had an expensive Day 1 Whale Edition with... I don't know, exclusive Master Chief liveries
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and Gears of War pilot/co-pilot brothers to the end skins
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Followed by a normie edition launching a week later, then finally a GamePass peasant version a week after that.
 
God, Teams is strung with duck tape and bubble gum in the backend. And so is half of their crap for M365 in general. But don’t worry, CoPilot (everywhere) will save us!!! 😂😅😉😭
I would also like to give honorable mentions to outlook. Outlook (work) on mobile. It won't fucking stop sending me constant notifications about needing permission to view my contacts. I don't want to fucking give more info to you MS and every single thing you have posted online that supposedly fixes this, doesn't fucking work.

Why the fuck does anything from MS never fucking work. Every single piece of software looks like it is still in beta besides GitHu

Edit:Sorry for the unhinged rant. Started a new job just 2-3 months ago and the company uses ms products exclusively for their day to day functions. Been getting headaches due to having to deal with MS softwares and trying to just get stuff to work properly
 
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