News Microsoft says Flight Simulator 2024 still suffers from access problems despite adding more server capacity to handle demand

[Admin]

Microsoft has updated the community on MSFS 2024, stating it has increased server capacity improving game accessibility. However the game isn't completely fixed and launch day bugs are still occuring.

Microsoft says Flight Simulator 2024 still suffers from access problems despite adding more server capacity to handle demand : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

just another reason online only games shouldnt be a thing.

 

[Francis412]

just another reason online only games shouldnt be a thing.

Here here.

 

[emike09]

"Obviously, player counts for MSFS 2024 are well over 200,000, which gives us an idea of how popular Microsoft's new simulator is."

SteamDB shows an all-time peak of 24k players since launch. No clue how many players from the PC Microsoft Store, but I guarantee it's much less than Steam. Which leaves us with XBox and GamePass users.

In the June 2024 MSFS Dev Q&A, Jorg Neumann indicated that PC vs XBox users vary, but hovers around 60/40 split, sometimes even 50/50 (https://fselite.net/content/microso...-qa-msfs2024-info-su16-new-aircraft-and-more/).

So, let's take that 24k from Steam, double it for Xbox, and double it for GamePass and Windows Store just to cover all sides. That's roughly 72,000 concurrent users, which I think is a very high estimate.

Even if 200,000 simulated users were used to test the servers, there is usually a little overhead available, or perhaps it'd just be a delayed login instead of a complete failure of the system. I call BS on the excuse of servers being overloaded. I think something happened along the pipeline they didn't test for, or broke. I think the world would have been just fine if they did a staggered release based on platform. Or did one more public beta a week before launch.

 

[Kpop4Ever]

I saw all of this coming weeks ago when they announced they were reducing the install size by putting more assets in the cloud. Right then I knew I wouldn't bother trying to get it on release day, and now I'm probably going to wait until SU1 drops. FS 2020 still works great.