Why is MSFS 2024 not just paid DLC?

[boko]

It doesn't even seem like there's many new features. Why not just make it paid DLC rather than a complete separate game? Especially considering there is the in-game shop which they made sure to tell us was all transferrable to the next game.. Why do it like this, is there really just more money for them to siphon from supporters is that why? It makes 0 sense.

I guess moving forward everyone who supported Flight Sim 2020 will be left in the dark and receive minor bug fixes (if we're lucky) and everything else will be pushed to 2024. Having just bought 2020 last month I feel completely scammed and regret my purchase. I think it's the last time I buy a flight sim game knowing there will be a newer barely different one being sold in just a few years. What a great way to alienate your audience.

[SalMan1862]

Publicado originalmente por ZombieHunter:

I am thankful for 2020 and the value it has provided. It is the reason I went back to get my PPL after having to quit earlier in life. I'm thankful to the team and everything put into it, but after 2020 it may be time to part ways and move to XP 12. I'll take a loss in visual fidelity for a gain in aircraft fidelity. I actually have no choice. I have to do this.

Great points and i agree with you completely. I am looking at also going to XPLANE 12 in the very near future.

[♀⛤WitchyWoman⛤♀]

Nothing in this version warranted a new game. DLC to 2020 at the most, and even then forcing everyone to stream terrain and other content without an option to have the game on your hard drive is a dumpster fire of a decision that most people will never accept.

[Thogmar]

Publicado originalmente por frank1354:

Publicado originalmente por ZombieHunter:

Great points and i agree with you completely. I am looking at also going to XPLANE 12 in the very near future.

That makes no sense for either of you. One can keep MSFS 2020 for its advantages, and also have Xplane if desired. Leave off MSFS 2024 if desired, but ZERO reason to exclusively have only one flight sim.

[SalMan1862]

Publicado originalmente por Thogmar:

Publicado originalmente por frank1354:

That makes no sense for either of you. One can keep MSFS 2020 for its advantages, and also have Xplane if desired. Leave off MSFS 2024 if desired, but ZERO reason to exclusively have only one flight sim.

OK...fair enough...Good point.

[General Iffy]

Because the greedy don't have enough of your money!

[Myosotis1973]

Is mfs 2024 is better than mfs 2020?

[Aetheric]

"Is mfs 2024 is better than mfs 2020?" -- not better, just different technology and architecture. Eg. streaming iso everything on your local machine, etc.

[derSanitoeter]

I am so glad it IS NOT an update / addon!

We have a 1 GBit connection and when flying FS2024 is is constantly downloading with 250-300 MBit. CONSTANTLY.

If you consider there are ups and downs - i would nail it down to ~200 MBit permanent traffic.

This means ~80 Gb per HOUR of gameplay with streaming.

I don't know how much of that is ending up as "TB written" on my NMVE SSD.

So... happy me, enjoying a proper non-online FS2020 will all the stuff i own there.

[♀⛤WitchyWoman⛤♀]

I hope 2024 fails like MS Flight did. They can take this streaming $%#% and shove it where it hurts.

[Amsterdamaged]

Who cares? 4 years later and 2020 is optimised.. I fly in VR and a lot of settings are on high.. it runs great!! Finally the graphical fidelity is possible on my system what they showed in the 2019 commercials of this game.

Why should i buy 2024, it's the same game and they need to optimise it, you can fly the same world...

When it's 2030, i might consider buying MSFS 2024, because then that version will be optimised with my hardware.

[SalMan1862]

Agree 100 per cent Amsterdamaged. MSFS 2020 was supposed to be supported for 10 years...now Jorge Neophyte (MS) is saying 2020 will be supported till 2028. That is only 8 years! And in 4 years 2024 will be optimized just in time for MSFS 2028 to be released. It is all about money. MS/ASOBO could care less about customer satisfaction......and XPLANE did the same thing...release a supposedly new version vice a DLC update and charge full price for it. I have just under 1500 hours on 2020 and I will stay with 2020. I do not see any reason to buy 2024 when it is the same game.

[Witcher]

Also agree with @Amsterdamaged - not paying full premium price to help Asobo beta test and optimise 2024. When all the bugs are squished, I may buy it at discounted price

[Simrealism]

After watching a bunch of let's plays, I'm glad I'm giving this version a miss.
If it goes on sale for 75% off or more, I might get it.

[GrOCam]

yep was about to buy it 100% but then I remembered, microsoft servers... streaming.. issues... xbox connectivity = BALLS. so much for my gaming bucks. was interested by the career mode tho.

[lawnmower501]

Quick question:
Did MS do ANY research into userbenchmark data on average available free drive space (if that was available), recent sales of larger drives with new or upgraded computers, forum complaints about not having enough room to install, average ping from existing and/or potential MSFS users, costs to Microsoft to maintain reliable connections, etc...
Before basing the entirety of their next market share investment for newest flight sim on this pure bs "online-only" model?

Here is a hint:
No user is going to buy hundreds of dollars of DLC if they can't start and use the [damn] game.