Will customers who pre ordered FS2020 be notified by Microsoft by email on release day?

Dont you have a clock and a calendar? Count down 22 hours from this post and you're there. 

What exactly do you want to be notified of...?

Yeah, you'll probably get an email, but if not, just try the MS flight sim icon on your program start menu in about 20 hours, and I daresay it'll start doing its thing.

In the meantime, as a back up, I have ordered my dispatch horsemen to make haste to you with a message. Assuming they make it though no man's land unmolested, they should get to you in about two weeks.

45 minutes ago, Chock said:

Yeah, you'll probably get an email, but if not, just try the MS flight sim icon on your program start menu in about 20 hours, and I daresay it'll start doing its thing.

In the meantime, as a back up, I have ordered my dispatch horsemen to make haste to you with a message. Assuming they make it though no man's land unmolested, they should get to you in about two weeks.

Hope they're not navigating by the sun and moon - they might get lost in a forest.

Or in the grass.

They just posted on Twitter that people that bought on the Microsoft store can begin downloading on a rolling schedule depending on where you live. 
 

For me (Central US) it’s at 0500 UTC August 17th. 

6 minutes ago, Alcides Segovia said:

For me (Central US) it’s at 0500 UTC August 17th. 

I think you'll find that's August 18th as stated in their post....

7 minutes ago, Alcides Segovia said:

They just posted on Twitter that people that bought on the Microsoft store can begin downloading on a rolling schedule depending on where you live. 
 

For me (Central US) it’s at 0500 UTC August 17th. 

According to this, it 0500 UTC August 18th.

AUGUST 18, 2020

05:00 UTC
Belize, Brazil (ACT), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, The United States of America (Central)

 

Ahhh yes. My mistake. I saw August 17th and didn’t see the 18th in the middle of the post .

Edited August 17, 20205 yr by Alcides Segovia

2 minutes ago, travelabroad said:

According to this, it 0500 UTC August 18th.

AUGUST 18, 2020

05:00 UTC
Belize, Brazil (ACT), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, The United States of America (Central)

 

Can you post the schedule for all North American Timezones?

Just now, Bert Pieke said:

Can you post the schedule for all North American Timezones?

AUGUST 18, 2020

00:00 UTC

Bouvet Island, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

01:00 UTC

Cabo Verde, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

03:00 UTC

Anguilla, Anguilla and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Dominica, The Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Virgin Islands (U.S.)

04:00 UTC

The Bahamas, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Canada, The Cayman Islands, Chile, Curaçao, The Falkland Islands, Georgia, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, The Turks and Caicos Islands, The United States of America (Eastern), Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

05:00 UTC

Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, The United States of America (Central)

07:00 UTC

Pitcairn, The United States of America (Western)

10:00 UTC

The Cook Islands French Polynesia

Try again..

03:00 UTC

Anguilla, Anguilla and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Dominica, The Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Virgin Islands (U.S.)

04:00 UTC

The Bahamas, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Canada, The Cayman Islands, Chile, Curaçao, The Falkland Islands, Georgia, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, The Turks and Caicos Islands, The United States of America (Eastern), Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

05:00 UTC

Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, The United States of America (Central)

07:00 UTC

Pitcairn, The United States of America (Western)

So basically if you live east of the Eastern Time Zone you are better off buying it from MS Store, you will get it at midnight your timezone

If you live West of the Eastern Time Zone you are better off buying it from Steam, because you will be able to download it at midnight Eastern Time Zone, therefore earlier for you if you live west of that time zone.

If you live in the Eastern Time Zone it makes no difference Steam or MS Store it will be at midnight from both of them

If you already purchased it from Steam, and  you live East of the Eastern Time Zone, too bad for you 🤣

Edited August 17, 20205 yr by Matthew Kane

14 minutes ago, Alcides Segovia said:

They just posted on Twitter that people that bought on the Microsoft store can begin downloading on a rolling schedule depending on where you live. 
 

For me (Central US) it’s at 0500 UTC August 17th. 

So that basically means in central we get to start downloading at midnight like previously thought or am I missing something?