Announce of MSFS 2024 prevents me from buying MSFS 2020

[Troll Norris]

If there was something like upgrade discount, I would reconsider that.

[Maki Nishikino]

Still plenty of time to enjoy MSFS 2020 and virtually all addons bought for MSFS 2020 will work with MSFS 2024. MSFS 2020 will still be supported after the release of MSFS 2024. Additionally I'm sure there will be another sale or two before the release of MSFS 2024.

[Troll Norris]

I don't care about sales. Almost all sales are business trick. I buy things when I want them. Not when those are on sale. I prefer fair price over the sale.

[Maki Nishikino]

I believe posting this here is futile.

[Troll Norris]

I just want simple answer if possible: Will be there discount for owners of MSFS2020?

[Maki Nishikino]

This isn't known to the best of my knowledge.

[alumlovescake]

Do not buy either, they are probably gonna drop 2024 in 2025 and then make a new one. They are only doing this to scam and con people

[bayshores]

I like how people already go on a limb to say that they're scamming people when they haven't even ANNOUNCED a pricing model yet for the new sim. Calm the ♥♥♥♥ down, people

[★Macman★]

We can hire WAGNER GROUP to visit ASOBO for a discussion. JORG has said at EXPO'23:
"Thankfully we got funding to make a big arsed Sim". Yeah, so do provide a FREE UPGRADE from 2020 else you suck ASOBO. Do NOT dare to ask a full fee for 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axgSevphWp0&t=314s&ab_channel=IvanSky

[ZombieHunter]

I honestly can't say I blame you. The only piece of advice I can offer is we know 2020 is fairly stable now and good content is being produced for it. It took almost 3 years to get here. So by that we might be able to say good content might be produced for 2024 by 2027. Then maybe they come out with a new one in 2028. All of us have the 'cadence' at which we are comfortable buying a new version of the sim. I missed a few versions back in the day (never bought FS 2000) so it happens.

FS 2020 is in a good state, though. And there are some good aircraft for it. As for how long the servers will be up serving Bing data no one can know. I would not trust anything they say for sure so.....use your best judgement.

It is going to split the marketplace for sure where some content works in 2020 and not 2024 and vice versa. They claim it won't but sure. We know it will. It always ends up like this. Otherwise if 2020 works fine then why would anyone want to get 2024? So the studio is going to ensure that 2024 looks like the better offering.

[Witcher]

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

Still plenty of time to enjoy MSFS 2020 and virtually all addons bought for MSFS 2020 will work with MSFS 2024. MSFS 2020 will still be supported after the release of MSFS 2024. Additionally I'm sure there will be another sale or two before the release of MSFS 2024.

MS said not all MSFS 2020 addons/mods will continue to work in 2024. I bought the 40th anniversary this year - more than 2 years after original release at a significantly smaller discount than FSX.

I honestly believe MS ought to give existing MSFS 2020 a reasonable discount for 2024 ...

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

FS 2020 is in a good state, though. And there are some good aircraft for it. As for how long the servers will be up serving Bing data no one can know. I would not trust anything they say for sure so.....use your best judgement.

Yea, if MS feels the same, we can almost guarantee there will not be many more MSFS 2020 updates except to fix some bugs or quick wins lol

It is going to split the marketplace for sure where some content works in 2020 and not 2024 and vice versa. They claim it won't but sure. We know it will. It always ends up like this. Otherwise if 2020 works fine then why would anyone want to get 2024? So the studio is going to ensure that 2024 looks like the better offering.

Agree, and does MS care? There isn't much info about MSFS 2024 and I believe it will be released earliest late 2024 or in 2025 lol

Edit: Small modders will struggle to provide freeware to both MSFS 2020 & 2024. Quietly, I hope MSFS 2024 will be a flop and modders continue to support 2020.

[Witcher]

Originally posted by ★Macman★:

We can hire WAGNER GROUP to visit ASOBO for a discussion. JORG has said at EXPO'23:
"Thankfully we got funding to make a big arsed Sim". Yeah, so do provide a FREE UPGRADE from 2020 else you suck ASOBO. Do NOT dare to ask a full fee for 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axgSevphWp0&t=314s&ab_channel=IvanSky

Mate, you can't threaten people with post like this in Steam forums. Someone must have reported you for your ban.

[KY_Tom]

I can't believe they are already developing a new sim when FS2020 still has so many issues. I still have crash to desktop nearly every time I play it. I've tried every troubleshooting method I can find and nothing has resolved the problem. When FS2020 was announced I was so excited and spent nearly $1000 upgrading my system to be able to run it. Such a disappointment. I seriously doubt that I'll ever buy anything from Osobo again.

[Witcher]

I have commented my 2 cents about MSFS 2024 in video below

https://youtu.be/WhL_BfUnF8g

[Maki Nishikino]

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

...virtually all addons bought for MSFS 2020 will work with MSFS 2024.

Originally posted by Witcher:

MS said not all MSFS 2020 addons/mods will continue to work in 2024.

Hence why I said "virtually all". The majority of addons will work. I've been a flight simmer for around 25 years having spent tens of thousands of dollars in this hobby and have been through this process a number of times with XP and P3D. I recently picked up two more addons for MSFS 2020 to add to the many I already have and I'm pretty sure they will be compatible in MSFS 2024 which I will buy when it comes out.

I really don't understand this fear people have. Just buy your addons and use them. Yes there is a chance they may not work with the next iteration of MSFS but there are many chances in life itself that are out of your control. Do you find yourself constantly thinking about them? I don't because it would be unhealthy mentally to do so.

Third-party developers will want their products in MSFS 2024 as it will be the cat's pajamas making them tons of money. There are a number of respected third-party developers out there some of which have been providing content to the flight sim community for 15+ years (some much longer) and others that have made a name for themselves starting with MSFS 2020. Just don't buy shovelware addons. It's very, very likely that nearly all if not all addons from respected third-party developers from them will work with MSFS 2024. At most a patch may be necessary and / or an upgrade fee might be applied for them to work with MSFS 2024.

[Witcher]

Originally posted by Maki Nishikino:

I really don't understand this fear people have. Just buy your addons and have fun with them. Yes there is a chance they may not work with the next iteration of MSFS but there are many chances in life itself that are out of your control. Do you find yourself constantly thinking about them? I don't because it would be unhealthy mentally to do so.

I bet majority if not all payware will work fine in 2024 but not all freeware.

Again buy your addons and have fun. Provided you're not buying shovelware what you buy is more than likely going to work with MSFS 2024. There are a number of reputable third-party developers out there some of which have been providing content to the flight sim community for 15+ years and others that have made a name for themselves starting with MSFS 2020. It's very, very likely that nearly all if not all addons from them will work with MSFS 2024. At most a patch may be necessary and / or an upgrade fee might be applied for them to work with MSFS 2024.

MSFS 2020 is not cheap and incomplete in the sense that there's almost an expectation you buy payware aircrafts, airports and AI traffic addons to complete the game.

If you watched Easyjetsimpilot's video, you will hear Asobo & MS say 9 of 12 milliion who bought 2020 are (casual) gamers, and they want to give hard core flight simmers a more realistic experience in 2024. Do you honestly believe 2024 will be significantly better or more complete than 2020? I don't because they failed to address the default ATC and avionics issues from FSX.