As Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Steam Reviews Collapse to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative,’ Dev Admits It ‘Completely Underestimated’ Excitement for the Game - IGN
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As Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Steam reviews collapse to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative,’ its developer has admitted it "completely underestimated" the excitement for the game.
  • Artyom@lemm.eeEnglish
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    26 minutes ago

    World’s 2nd most popular cloud infrastructure company is unable to deploy their own software on their own cloud infrastructure.

  • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Is the content from the previous flight simulator compatible with 2024 or do people have to remake and rebuy everything again?

  • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    If the servers can only handle a certain number of players, then they should only sell a certain number of licenses for the game.
    Then, when concurrent player numbers drop over time, they can release more.

    But no, they’ll happily take the money from everyone on launch even though their servers can’t handle the load.

    • DrCake@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 hours ago

      Could you imagine the possibly equally as bad reception if a digital game was limited? Then add in that you’d get scalpers trying to sell steam keys for stupid money.

      This is just another example of why you should wait a while before buying a new game, even sequels.