No internet

[XMAN 12]

Will i someday be able to buy the DVD then install it and activate it over the phone like i do with FSX? 

[bonchie 2,305]

Almost certainly not. You can get it on DVD, but the old activation system doesn't even exist anymore.

Edited July 17, 2020 by bonchie

[XMAN 12]

So i will be able to install it on a computer with no internet connection?  i dont have home internet

[LHookins 3,103]

This might be a good question to ask on the forum of the people selling the DVD set.  If you find a good answer, please let us know.

Or, if someone else has already found out for sure, we'd love to know.  I could speculate but that won't do any good to anyone.

Hook

[espent 1,394]

That sounds like a lot of hassle. 
I am sure the will be huge (Gigabytes) updates regularly the first year. How will you deal with that?

 

What about getting new aircrafts/airports?

[RandyGiles 16]

You will need to redeem the included code against your Microsoft account during the installation, this can only be done online.

[XMAN 12]

Ok i have dialup internet , and i can activate other stuff using it and wonder if i will activate ms2020

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,317]

20 minutes ago, XMAN said:

Ok i have dialup internet , and i can activate other stuff using it and wonder if i will activate ms2020

Dial up?! Where are you, 1999? 

[Kilo60 660]

It says on the DVD set article that an Internet connection is still required...

 

I'm sure you can find the article on Google somewhere.

[Will Fly For Cheese 1,710]

4 hours ago, RandyGiles said:

You will need to redeem the included code against your Microsoft account during the installation, this can only be done online.

Are you Microsoft personal walking among us. . .?

[Hyperfocal 186]

1 hour ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Dial up?! Where are you, 1999? 

Around 21 million Americans alone do not have access to broadband. About 3.7 billion people worldwide have no internet access. Those of us who do are very fortunate.

[RandyGiles 16]

2 minutes ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

Are you Microsoft personal walking among us. . .?

Haha no, I've used both the Xbox store and Windows store enough to know exactly how this works as this isn't the first time Microsoft have released a Microsoft Store game physically so they already have a system in place.

Take a look at the back of my own manual from my physical copy of Halo Wars 2 to see how it works:

https://imgur.com/CrQ1hsl

The blurb at the bottom is the important bit "This is a digital version of Halo Wars 2 which you can install via physical media" - I guarantee that MSFS will be exactly the same.

2a, the important note is also actually important also.

[OzWhitey 3,353]

Its a sim primarily based on streaming 100’s of megabytes of scenery when you fly. I doubt this is a good sim choice if you don’t have decent internet.

[Theboot100 404]

12 minutes ago, Hyperfocal said:

Around 21 million Americans alone do not have access to broadband. About 3.7 billion people worldwide have no internet access. Those of us who do are very fortunate.

Yes, but there are only 2 billion computers in the world too.  So almost all those people that dont have access to broadband also dont have a computer.

To play modern aaa gaming you need internet access.  Its not 1990 anymore where games are released as a final product. Its where we are at now.

Games are bought from online market places (steam etc) and require downloading.  A lot of them require online login authentication, updates etc.  And hard copies of games you do buy generally come with a launcher that you run and it downloads the game.

 

 

[OzWhitey 3,353]

I’m guessing a lot of people here aren’t Steam gamers, so they don’t realise how central good internet is to modern gaming.

So 3.7 billion people worldwide don’t have internet? Ok, well, then they’re not Asobo’s target market.