a catastrophic launch, angry players, Micr

Released on November 19, 2024, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 had obviously not anticipated the expectation that it could arouse among players. Result, saturated servers and the impossibility for players to launch the game, the latter being tied hand and foot to its servers, since everything is almost managed by the cloud. After 4 years of waiting, players responded immediately with anger, flooding social networks with negative comments and rushing to Metacritic and Steam to provoke review bombing. The panic was so great at Asobo Studop and Microsoft that the two companies were forced to speak out through a crisis meeting on Teams. This is where we learned that Microsoft underestimated the expectations for its game and was unable to mobilize enough servers to cope with the overload. The latest news was that servers capable of hosting 200,000 players simultaneously had been planned for the launch, which is obviously low when we know that 15 million people had purchased the 2020 Microsoft Flight Simulator. An error of judgment that pays for itself expensive and which will probably take several weeks before we find a calmer cruising speed.

“We encountered a problem with the service that manages the new security systems. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024such as career mode and other missions. The server that handles data requests is overloaded, causing slowdowns and other issues. Players therefore experience long loading times and missing content, such as certain planes disappearing. We have resolved these issues and can now bring players in at a healthy pace.”

Among the problems that have been listed on the discussion forums, there is first of all the inability to exit the loading page, where you sometimes have to wait more than 40 minutes to access the game. The lucky ones who were able to pass the main screen noticed missing textures, unfinished 3D models and unwanted crashes. Good luck to the Asobo teams for the next few days, it could be hectic.