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MSFS 2024 Steam or Windows Store…?

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Steam, as always. 

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  • Steam! Updating the MS Store version of MFS2020 was , shall we say, not intuitive. Steam version is one click and done... Russ

  • CornishCracker
    CornishCracker

    Genuinely ridiculous decision.

  • carlanthony24
    carlanthony24

    Steam. Windows version was poor some of us reverted to Steam after problems and found it much better.

Steam. Windows version was poor some of us reverted to Steam after problems and found it much better.

I originally bought MSFS 2020 from the Windows Store, but this time definitely purchasing it on Steam!

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58 minutes ago, Fielder said:

I was told in threads here, that you will lose what you own if you switch from Store to Steam or vice versa. In other words your stuff in content manager will not transfer from the Steam in game marketplace to the Store in game marketplace. That's what I asked about here twice. And that's what I was told twice in these forums.

 

 

Wow!

 

Guess I'm sticking to the Microsoft store then!

Chris Camp

Unless someone wants to also run MSFS on both an Xbox console and a PC, I would stay with the same 2024 version as your 2020 version.

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Steam - I have several other applications running off Steam and they, plus MSFS, are very easily managed.  Updates and purchases are transparent.

My limited experience with Microsoft Store purchases have been awkward and sometimes downright difficult.  It seems to me Microsoft is way too concerned with an end to end experience and integration of many things I want to keep separate.  Maybe if I had started with MS stuff I would be more comfortable and able to understand what they want me to do.

Steam - easily and almost transparent!

 

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That one free aircraft for early adopters is for use right now in the 2020 version. But the same aircraft will be free in all editions of 2024, and so you would have to wait until November to fly it if you don't get it early as a bonus.

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Steam. 

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For someone new to MSFS that doesn't already have 2020, I would choose Steam. Unless you also want to run it on a console, perhaps for your kids. A store bought purchase of MSFS and from the marketplace for PC is free to import to Xbox consoles (you don't have to buy the same things again).

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Steam no questions 

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Steam.

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Windows Store. No reason to go through a middleman that will absorb some of my money.

The bigger percentage of my money goes to Microsoft, the more of it will be reinvested in the simulator, the better for me. 

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3 hours ago, CornishCracker said:

Do we have a source for this? I can understand anything purchased via Steam not working on MS. But the other way around is illogical. 

I can't find the reason why.

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