Can't download Microsoft flight sim 2020

Indeed.

The product completely FAILS on every metric, simply because it will NOT install.

     By the time we get access to the GAME we paid for it will be on the “greatest hits”  list and retail for 20.00. I actually don’t care any more, as they are so hopelessly outclassed by ANY of the other flight simulators in almost ANY quantifiable sense.

AI- FSX/ Prepa3d. Visuals- ORBX True Earth HD for XP11. Airplanes to fly- Carenado for looks or Flysimware or Flight Factor for systems fidelity. Many, many more. I see developers are getting on board with MSFS- but I wonder if Mr. Rendazzo @ PMDG still feels as if the new platform will be “the way of the future” given how widely it is panned by aviation people. “Marshmallow Queen of the Skies V.3” - I can hear it now.

This thing is a turkey.

It was a GRAB.

A cash grab to fund their acquisition of Beth, not that they needed the money, but investors ARE investors. They NEEDED a hit. A hit freaking title since recycled Halo wasn’t getting it in the sales charts. What other property did they have? Now watch, functionality of Windows itself is going to be sold “ala carte” and we’ll have to pony up another 50.00 for media player.

Dear sweet MS,

    Do please remember the last time you did this. It did not end well. It will not this time.

Bethesda may be a hedge against an uncertain future in a country full of domestic disturbances and fickle trends but flight simulator people in particular DRIVE a lot of the PC hardware industry. How do I know? I am ONE of them, MS. Jensen over at Nvidia has been a pretty happy fellow with guys like me. Same for AMD, Intel and RAM manufacturers like Samsung or Hyundai.  I can run Skyrim on a TRS-80 more than likely, with a few mods from the Nexus. FSX and it’s ilk will EAT an under 5g processor, every time. I have three sets of VR goggles although sadly, no Oculus as I gave my Oculus away after the FB debacle. To include a V2 rift but that is intrusiveness for you.

     Some of your products I have found useful. Cortana is a shipping ace and I let her watch my packages for me. I do NOT let her listen to the mike or use the “service” itself. Google has a pretty intrusive/effective solution there I’m already into the economy of.

But I have enough Apple products around here to supply a company with, in fact I have.

This does nothing to inspire me to change that, Microsoft. Effectively “stealing” people’s money like this and giving them NO satisfaction is BEYOND bad customer service. It has repercussions throughout the spectrum if you follow me, people will tend to vote with their wallets. 

Marketplace.

However ARE sales of new AC, cities and such through there, anyways? Modest but robust? As soon as zipping around under a bridge downtown with the Xbox controller the plane was built for gets old it will be “old” to your new core audience. Meanwhile most of us old heads will still know where Aerosoft, Carenado, ORBX and the various independent FS products may be found.

It is a pity that you’ve let short sightedness and need for Holiday release ruin this title.

A lot of long timers in the industry felt pretty burned at the sudden announcement in the first place. But that is what it is. Flight Simulator is owned by Microsoft. They have every right to change their product and update it, as they have here. My problem isn’t even with that, it’s the fact that I can’t even fly the thing. DOUBLE normal game release money and NO game.  And for those of you NOT in the insider club and on Beta, it IS a game.

What I mean by that is obviously I have played it, it was on my system for months.

Trust me folks, the screenies  are ALL it has.

I spent more time trying to get it to co-operate with my setup of two quads, pedals and a yoke than flying it. When I finally DID get it airborne it was pretty but NOT accurate by any degree, not for my local VFR. Wrong buildings for geographic area, inflated trees (a recurring **** in Beta), wrong or inaccurate coloring, the list goes on. I STILL paid my 120.00 in good faith, even though I bailed LONG before Alpha or gold. I ran it once more during late Alpha and it sorted my control problems but none of the things I had noted were fixed, so I gave it a pass until after retail. Big mistake.

I have slung the towel in and given up.I have tried running the Game through microsoft xbox, and playstation 4.Each time I get taken back to the the microsoft store. Funny how other games, and Amazon prime, I have managed to install their launcher?As for Cortana, She can only do what

I would look for on the internet anyway.

Indeed.

The product completely FAILS on every metric, simply because it will NOT install.

     By the time we get access to the GAME we paid for it will be on the “greatest hits”  list and retail for 20.00. I actually don’t care any more, as they are so hopelessly outclassed by ANY of the other flight simulators in almost ANY quantifiable sense.

AI- FSX/ Prepa3d. Visuals- ORBX True Earth HD for XP11. Airplanes to fly- Carenado for looks or Flysimware or Flight Factor for systems fidelity. Many, many more. I see developers are getting on board with MSFS- but I wonder if Mr. Rendazzo @ PMDG still feels as if the new platform will be “the way of the future” given how widely it is panned by aviation people. “Marshmallow Queen of the Skies V.3” - I can hear it now.

This thing is a turkey.

It was a GRAB.

A cash grab to fund their acquisition of Beth, not that they needed the money, but investors ARE investors. They NEEDED a hit. A hit freaking title since recycled Halo wasn’t getting it in the sales charts. What other property did they have? Now watch, functionality of Windows itself is going to be sold “ala carte” and we’ll have to pony up another 50.00 for media player.

Dear sweet MS,

    Do please remember the last time you did this. It did not end well. It will not this time.

Bethesda may be a hedge against an uncertain future in a country full of domestic disturbances and fickle trends but flight simulator people in particular DRIVE a lot of the PC hardware industry. How do I know? I am ONE of them, MS. Jensen over at Nvidia has been a pretty happy fellow with guys like me. Same for AMD, Intel and RAM manufacturers like Samsung or Hyundai.  I can run Skyrim on a TRS-80 more than likely, with a few mods from the Nexus. FSX and it’s ilk will EAT an under 5g processor, every time. I have three sets of VR goggles although sadly, no Oculus as I gave my Oculus away after the FB debacle. To include a V2 rift but that is intrusiveness for you.

     Some of your products I have found useful. Cortana is a shipping ace and I let her watch my packages for me. I do NOT let her listen to the mike or use the “service” itself. Google has a pretty intrusive/effective solution there I’m already into the economy of.

But I have enough Apple products around here to supply a company with, in fact I have.

This does nothing to inspire me to change that, Microsoft. Effectively “stealing” people’s money like this and giving them NO satisfaction is BEYOND bad customer service. It has repercussions throughout the spectrum if you follow me, people will tend to vote with their wallets. 

Marketplace.

However ARE sales of new AC, cities and such through there, anyways? Modest but robust? As soon as zipping around under a bridge downtown with the Xbox controller the plane was built for gets old it will be “old” to your new core audience. Meanwhile most of us old heads will still know where Aerosoft, Carenado, ORBX and the various independent FS products may be found.

It is a pity that you’ve let short sightedness and need for Holiday release ruin this title.

A lot of long timers in the industry felt pretty burned at the sudden announcement in the first place. But that is what it is. Flight Simulator is owned by Microsoft. They have every right to change their product and update it, as they have here. My problem isn’t even with that, it’s the fact that I can’t even fly the thing. DOUBLE normal game release money and NO game.  And for those of you NOT in the insider club and on Beta, it IS a game.

What I mean by that is obviously I have played it, it was on my system for months.

Trust me folks, the screenies  are ALL it has.

I spent more time trying to get it to co-operate with my setup of two quads, pedals and a yoke than flying it. When I finally DID get it airborne it was pretty but NOT accurate by any degree, not for my local VFR. Wrong buildings for geographic area, inflated trees (a recurring **** in Beta), wrong or inaccurate coloring, the list goes on. I STILL paid my 120.00 in good faith, even though I bailed LONG before Alpha or gold. I ran it once more during late Alpha and it sorted my control problems but none of the things I had noted were fixed, so I gave it a pass until after retail. Big mistake.

I was only able to finally install the game after weeks of letting the installer stumble it's way through the files, attempting to download the same file hundreds of times. I was able to play until the USA update, which I've never been able to download despite many many attempts. I just let the latest update attempt to download overnight, of course it failed before getting even 10% through.

This almost feels like fraud at this point. Why can't the updates be downloaded from a web link or literally anywhere other than their completely terrible launcher? I have no network/connectivity issue like this with any other application or game, nor have I ever. What a garbage piece of software.

Microsoft, you are terrible.

I am the same as Gary. Fix does not work for me. 

I have wasted many hours trying to fix this.

This, along with the other shots in the dark fixes did not work for me. Nor should it need to, the installer just has to do its job and it doesnt.