I have been a member of Flightsim.com since 1997 (new account since 2012), and my first contact with Microsoft Flight Simulator was FS95, using every single version up to FSX.
So, I don´t consider myself a newbie, a troll, or just a gamer who came to FS 2020 to have some fun crashing a plane into a building, before geting bored and going back to killing aliens in a first person shooter.
I´m really glad that you are not having problems with this new version of the sim, but trust me, hundreds of people are having a really rough time with it. Not just "a few". Go to the official Microsoft FS forums and take a look. Do you really think all those people are paid by X-Plane developers just to make FS 2020 look bad?
It´s not fake news.
It took me two weeks just to complete the initial installation. When it was aparently complete, it was crashes to desktop all over the place until Patch 1.7.14.0. It worked fine, and I started to enjoy the sim. Some things needed more work and fine tuning, but in general, I was happy and impressed.
Until yesterday.
Patch 1.8.3.0 has completely ruined my simulator. Sensitivities gone, altered airports, non working aircraft, unreliable autopilots, crashes to desktop, stutters and sudden (and long) pauses while flying, failure to load new flights, non working manual cache, and logbook not updating.
No, I´m not trolling. No, it´s not fake news. Unfortunately, a lot of people with very different systems are reporting the same problems. There is no conspiracy against Asobo, just a lot of (understandably) pissed off people.
I´m not giving up.
I´ve been around long enough to remember hard times before, util the sim matured, or the hardware catched up (I find it amusing when people complain about the new sim´s performance: I remember FS98 at 5 fps with addon aiports on top-of-the-line systems, or FS 2000 at 8 fps on release date).
I´ve been waiting a lot of years for a sim like this, and honestly, I never thought something like what Asobo has achieved could be possible. FS 2020 is beyond what I expected in my wildest dreams, so I understand if it needs time to iron all its problems away.
I admire, respect and support the Asobo Team. I´m sure they are not having a fun time right now.
But that doesn´t change my general impression:
Microsoft rushed this product to be released sooner than it should have been. It went from alpha to beta, and then to release in no time. After what I have seen, I consider it still a beta.
It´s Ok. I´m happy to a be a beta tester. I wanted to be a part of the insider program so badly that I would have paid to have the opportunity to do so. Well, I consider now, that actually that´s what has happened: I paid 129 € to test a software in beta stage.
It´s not the end of the world.
So, enjoy the sim for us, since it is working fine for you.
But please, have a bit more empathy for those simmers, who are maybe (just maybe) more experienced, hard-core, and technically capable than you, but just can´t get the sim running... not because they are stupid, incompetent or trolls... but because the sim is not ready... YET.
Sure it will be. And will be worth it. But it is still a long way ahead of us...
Best regards.
(And please excuse my poor English, obviously, it is not my language).
