The official presentation from the Xbox Game Pass twitter account  (bold is mine) :

"Same skies, all new Flight Simulator. New missions and an all new way to play. Play the brand new sequel, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, coming next year !"

This is  a new version, not a DLC .

Buying a new version will not be a big issue.

Replacing all their current addons may slow a few people down,

I wish someone from Microsoft or Asobo would spill the beans/inform us in order to defuse the anxiety of buying everything over again...

Darryl

Still no reaction from 

1 minute ago, omarsmak30 said:

yeah that is my only hope, it won't be a breaking change version but I don't MS and Asobo will stupid to release a breaking change simulator, many users and developers will be word not allowed, hell ya some developers like FSLabs are still "figuring out" how to develop for 2020 and now we are in 2024 version 😄 

Waiting for A2A to announce a further 2 year wait for their Comanche to make compatible with FS2024 (just kidding).

Jorg "we'll be supporting MSFS for ten years"

 

....2 years later

 

"Hey let's screw everyone over and release a sequel with no communication or specifics for anyone so they can play a guessing game!"

I wonder if now we know why Aerosoft pulled their Twin Otter?

And I also resonate with the other posts here, if it has an upgrade path then all is well but I will not be too thrilled if I need to repurchase the 1,500 dollars in addon's I already have. But I think we need to be a little patient give ASOBO some time to clarify things.

Edited June 11, 20232 yr by Cognita

2 minutes ago, MarcG said:

Jorg "we'll be supporting MSFS for ten years"

 

....2 years later

 

"Hey let's screw everyone over and release a sequel with no communication or specifics for anyone so they can play a guessing game!"

They never said every single update would be free for 10 years to be fair. You can still support MSFS for 10 years by releasing a new version of it though. 

I do think we need to wait for some more news what this all means though, 

Edited June 11, 20232 yr by Zangoose

George Bush "No new taxes". 

Oh boy, we're back to the classic Avsim oxygen deprived debates like just before the release of MSFS, where so many people were sure it would be a SUBSCRIPTION ONLY sim, because of Game Pass, having zero clue what it was to begin with and we'd 100% have to PAY for streaming data, because it was soooo costly, no way that would be part of the base sim!!

No, this is not a completely new release. This is like so many other games in the live service sphere; a continual release cycle of a current ecosystem. Of course they aren't going to nuke the entire marketplace, nuke all the third party work, nuke the entire financial underpinnings of the simulator to start over. That is literally how live service games work; it's a perpetual world that sees constant upgrades and support, which brings in more people and is financially very attractive. It's not uncommon to keep branding new content releases and seasons as almost a new full release, that's to generate additional hype, especially for new users who hasn't dipped their toes in yet.

Edited June 11, 20232 yr by Sethos

1 minute ago, MarcG said:

Jorg "we'll be supporting MSFS for ten years"

 

....2 years later

 

"Hey let's screw everyone over and release a sequel with no communication or specifics for anyone so they can play a guessing game!"

It's been 1 hour since the announcement. At least give them a chance to give more information

**If** this is a new sim, so much for 10 years....

9 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

Same skies

It's the same sim. It would make absolutely no sense for them to create a whole new flight simulator...and why would they show seasons if it was a "new sim?" It's branding, folks. If it was a "new sim" I highly doubt it'd be an "open world" experience....it would appear to be a bunch of neat mission packs. I genuinely think this will be an expansion that will make the flight sim "MSFS 2024" similar to ARMA 3 expansions, for example. It's the same base platform.

Honestely, having a game for ten years that will be provided with free updates and only generate revenue with the selling of addons in the market place, it don't know how realistic that is. Especially I can imagen that not everyone buys that stuff, when googling addon I came across some piracy sites. If they can manage it only with market place sales it would be unfair to charge again, because it sounded that they are going to support free updates over the period of 10 years. If thinks don't go as expected and market place sales are lower, I would be fine to pay for that update. As long as they don't charge 130 Euros again. All for the sake that the projects keeps going, since Asobo has been delivering for more than two years, good stuff.

1 minute ago, Matchstick said:

**If** this is a new sim, so much for 10 years....

It's like windows 11 while still get support of windows 10 

10 minutes ago, Fielder said:

Still no reaction from 

Waiting for A2A to announce a further 2 year wait for their Comanche to make compatible with FS2024 (just kidding).

ok, that was funny i give you that lol