MSFS available for preorders. Releasing August 18th!

[GBee777 8]

20 hours ago, Julian Roschlau said:

Would be interesting to know if the new sim offers Steam Workshop integration. Now that would be a great reason to order on Steam - even if Workshop support could come at a later time.

Good question.

Also, if you buy from Steam which allows you to install anywhere, and move it any time, will the Orbx Central system work ?

I say this because I have 50 airports for P3D and will want my 40% discount when I buy the FS2020 versions (when released), which only works if purchased through Orbx Central.

Edited August 12, 2020 by GBee777

[HiFlyer 9,343]

1 minute ago, GBee777 said:

Cool. Yet sad that many in the world have really bad or expensive internet access and need the discs.

Some people want the disks just to have them. There are also many people who grew up with physical copies, still have collections of original sim boxes and manuals, and think of this as a new collectors item.

[GBee777 8]

Hmmm... they certainly make good coasters.

[pmb 5,137]

1 minute ago, HiFlyer said:

Some people want the disks just to have them. There are also many people who grew up with physical copies, still have collections of original sim boxes and manuals, and think of this as a new collectors item.

Which includes me. All Microsoft sims from FS4 to FSX on physical media on my shelf.

Kind regards, Michael

[Agrajag 286]

The shift in media (like broadband speed variances) reminds me of the time when a major game publisher (Origin) put out the latest version of Wing Commander (a huge space combat sim of the day) and it shipped on something like 20 floppy disks. This was right before media finally moved to CD-ROM disks. First, the packages were really heavy costing the publisher a fortune to ship the boxes to retailers. Second, a basic oversight in coding nearly sunk the entire effort. It wasn't enough that the game came on so many disk, but it also was heavily compressed and the compression was resolved on each disc. In other words, you put in Disk 1 and it would decompress and then copy over to the hard drive. The catch was that each disk took roughly an hour to decompress on machines of the day. People were livid. You'd put that disk in and inevitably something came up so you'd get distracted and three hours would go by before you'd change to Disk 2. Installs for some people literally took days. This being a DOS game it also meant your PC was 100% tied up during this process. By the time the install was done customers were going into the game thinking, "This had better be the best game I've ever played". It likely was, but that's no way to blow expectations and first impressions. Origin quickly made a simple change by copying all the data to the hard drive on every disk first and THEN decompressing, thus allowing users to walk away just one time. Typical install time dropped down to something like an hour. That drop in time also was directly proportional to a positive drop in expectations.

Copying over 150GB of data on a slow data connection could take a long time, but at least you can do that in the background while using the PC for other things.

[badger2000 168]

16 hours ago, n4gix said:

No, because there is no such thing as a "World wide version" and a "UK version. What there is - is confusion...

Honestly I would not risk buying a "key" from a third-party just to save a few dollars. Given that MSFS is not being released on DVD except through Aerosoft, I'm not even confident that any "key" will work in the first place.

I've used cdkeys a number of times and they're legit.  The UK and worldwide version thing is a bit of a mystery though.  Maybe it's a tax thing? 

[Wobbie 938]

On 8/10/2020 at 7:59 PM, coopermc said:

I have ordered the Premium De Luxe edition of MSFS from CD keys.

On their site they advertise a World wide version and one for UK which is more expensive than the World wide version.

Does anyone know what the difference is?.

Thanks,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe the World wide version is MSFS & the UK version is FS2020/FS20?

Edited August 12, 2020 by Wobbie

[javelina 56]

bought my copy via Steam...  I'm sure I'll have it all sorted out to install FS2020 onto my 1TB NVMe.  I currently have an NVMe for the O/S, plus the 1TB NVMe for flight sims, and a third NVMe I've been using for the pagefile.  (sure, it's overkill, but so what). 

Really looking forward to post Aug. 18th!  😀

[bean_sprout 1,201]

10 hours ago, Agrajag said:

The shift in media (like broadband speed variances) reminds me of the time when a major game publisher (Origin) put out the latest version of Wing Commander (a huge space combat sim of the day) and it shipped on something like 20 floppy disks.

I suppose that if you are flying near Seattle the scenery load logic will take a lazy approach for say loading Egypt..  ASOBO seems keen on optimizations.

Cheers

bs

 

 

Edited August 13, 2020 by n4gix
Removed unnecessary long quote!

[in2tech 588]

18 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

Some people want the disks just to have them. There are also many people who grew up with physical copies, still have collections of original sim boxes and manuals, and think of this as a new collectors item.

Sure wish I would have SOLD my FSX physical disks when they went for crazy prices when MS announced they were no longer making them. Or did I dream this? I honestly can't remember? I though this happened? I could have retired and been collecting 20% on a beach 🙂 Kind of a line from Diehard, or close to it? I think? Maybe I dreamed that too?

Edited August 13, 2020 by in2tech

[FPStewy 538]

There's a "rumor" floating that Premium Deluxe will have an early unlock. As if things are not frenzy enough.

[n4gix 4,947]

7 minutes ago, FPStewy said:

There's a "rumor" floating that Premium Deluxe will have an early unlock. As if things are not frenzy enough.

What would be the point? By the time they are delivered it will likely already be past the 18th... 😲

[Julian Roschlau 15]

16 minutes ago, FPStewy said:

There's a "rumor" floating that Premium Deluxe will have an early unlock. As if things are not frenzy enough.

I'm leaning forward with interest.

[united001 126]

28 minutes ago, FPStewy said:

There's a "rumor" floating that Premium Deluxe will have an early unlock. As if things are not frenzy enough.

Reads with great interest!

United001

[FPStewy 538]

I'm just showing what I saw nothing more.