How do you feel about it that Microsoft decided to make a new game instead of it being an update for MSFS 2020? Do you think you will buy it or just stick with the 2020 version?
I’ll probably get 2024 at some point, but maybe not for the right reasons. I bought MSFS 2020 from the MS Store because I thought it would upgrade in the background but it doesn’t, the updater is still a mess. Now I want to move my pc to Linux and my MS Store version of MSFS is about the only game/software I have that won’t work with Linux/Proton/Wine, that I care about. So I’ve been looking to get Steam version of 2020 in a sale, even though it looks like that won’t be a seamless experience either, it at least has a chance. With 2024 coming out and sales never going quite low, I’ll wait for 2024 instead and see how it’ll run on Proton. Or I’ll get X-Plane 12 because that has a native Linux build.
I am running MSFS on Linux with no problems at all.
Can you elaborate how? Wine? VirtualBox? What did you need to install if anything to make it work? Which distro are you on?
I am on Fedora 38, it just works on Steam with Proton Experimental. Just make sure to use directx11.
Cool, thanks!
I think I’ll wait for now to find out whether it makes sense to buy it. TBH I feel it’s going to be a Gamepass thing again anyways.
I bought MSFS 2020 for like 100 bucks and I feel a bit iffy about the fact that they will not primarily support that purchase and are corralling features off into a new title.
That said, the big question is modules. The module marketplace just had time to consolidate on 2020, I wonder how long it will take to have a decent array of modules on 2024, and whether users will be content paying for the same modules again on a slightly different platform.
No need to purchase modules again. Confirmed they will work in the new sim.
Microsoft has said all of the marketplace purchases will transfer, and will be compatible.
I feel like, even for the premium deluxe version I purchased, i’ve gotten my money’s worth over the years in all of the free sim, avionics, and world updates. Will almost certainly be upgrading to 2024 day one.
I’m kinda surprised to see a whole new game rather than an update. I’ll probably stick to 2020 for a while
I’ll have to wait and see. I’m hopeful they’ll improve some of the things that prevent me from playing 2020 more (camera system, control profiles, overall “bloat” of the interface). I’m currently split between MSFS and xp12, and favor xp for a variety of reasons, so either nothing will change or I’ll end up using 2024 more than I use 2020 currently.
I can’t wait. Their slot at FSE and the subsequent interviews that followed confirmed that it isn’t just some “missions” being added but what is essentially an entirely new engine running the sim.
We won’t truly know until we start seeing demos and performance but I think a lot of the people that are negative towards it will probably change their minds, if it lives up to what they say it will be.
My honest belief is that the technology that supports MSFS (I’m talking about Azure mostly) evolves at such a speed that they found themselves both capable and, maybe to some extent, forced to rewrite part or all the core before they initially expected.
I use tu be cautious when buying games, but flight sims are my main thing by a long shot. I’ll probably buy on day 1.
