6 hours ago, Kristofski said:

Picking up 2024 before the current sale ends, but now I'm asking the lads what edition do you have and if the extra planes are worth the extra dough? Any standouts? Disappointments? 

 

I bought the Aviator edition, mainly because I enjoy them for mostly historical reasons. 

BUT, most of them are still v2020 only and have a number of quirks in v2024. 

Previously, I bought 2020 Premium Deluxe for the Longitude and 787. And the extra handful of Hand Crafted airports give me a reason to fly atypical locations. 

I would’ve bought v2024 PE for similar reasons (such as the C-17, et al). 

In sum, the simulator remains exactly the same across editions, and IIRC, all the World Update freebies have been released for all editions. 

So, if you’re interested in any of the extra aircraft or airfields, then yes. 

But if you only fly 3rd Party addons, then stick with Standard. 

It depends on what sort of aircraft you are interested in. If all you want is pmdg etc airliners then it obviously isn't worth it. If you are interested in quirky historical aircraft then have a look at the Aviator edition. Jorg has said that the included aircraft will be updated to 2024 versions with the first five coming with su5 maybe next week.

I didn't own any of the Famous Flyer/Local Legend aircraft from 2020 and took a chance on the Aviator edition and I am glad I did.

There is a strange anti MS/Asobo attitude from many posters on this forum. Just look at the comments about the marketplace.

Look at the aircraft in the different editions and decide whether they suit your type of flying and whether they interest you or not. Everyone is different.

Updating to higher editions later is much more expensive and buying individual aircraft soon adds up.

Edited April 26Apr 26 by bailout

Go standard and buy the exact plane(s) you want.  Good luck and have fun.

 

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Premium or Aviators saves you $5 forever on local legends and famous flyers. But some people aren't interested in historical aviation. It will be $10 instead of $15 for each of them, forever.

35 minutes ago, Fielder said:

Premium or Aviators saves you $5 forever on local legends and famous flyers. But some people aren't interested in historical aviation. It will be $10 instead of $15 for each of them, forever.

This is a good point and I forgot to add it to my post!  You get a 33% off forever on those aircraft.

4 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

I got Premium Deluxe as well, because I really wanted the C700 Longitude (if you have 2020 you still get the 2020 version in 24, just not the full native 2024 version with cabin and upgraded cockpit/opening doors etc)

So the versions of the Longitude & SR22 that were available over a year ago on my account as free 2024 upgrades, they are not native 2024? 

Edited April 26Apr 26 by CFIJose

1 hour ago, CFIJose said:

So the versions of the Longitude & SR22 that were available over a year ago on my account as free 2024 upgrades, they are not native 2024? 

If you owned PD in 2020 and bought standard 2024, you get the old versions for 24.  They are not the new native versions.

I prefer to buy from the marketplace. The MS cloud is not primarily for MSFS. It is for all Xbox/Microsoft gaming.

And their gaming division's income has been de-accelerating. When the cloud goes, we are in trouble. I want MS to make as much money as possible on every msfs addon.

Microsoft gaming CEO and Microsoft President out. At least 10 of the 40 new games in productions are cancelled. 

The demographics for gaming has always been: monied and male from say age 12 on up. The new game trailers, including brand new versions of very popular games are being ratioed in the reactions to preview trailers. Sales have disappointed. Gaming itself is not less popular, but the new slant on these new versions is. Many Youtube videos on this issue the last few months.

MSFS itself remains popular and a big hit. 

If you mainly fly third party IFR add-ons, I’d probably go Standard and put the price difference into the aircraft you know you will actually use. The higher editions make more sense if you specifically want the native 2024 versions of the included aircraft, or if you know you care about the Local Legends and Famous Flyers discount. For me it would come down to one simple question: will those bundled aircraft become part of your regular flying, or just hangar filler?

Great Insights from everyone - ended up with the Standard edition as recommended; a lot extra planes did strike me as a try-once-and-never-again type of addition. Tried some of the unique ones from the Standard, like the Blimp or those small personal hover drone looking ones, all gimmicks for the curious. I don't think there's anyone out there rocking Blimp Sim regularly lol. 

The Chinook looked like a decent one, the extra Cessna models seem good but I don't think worth the price. You really do get a lot of toys in the standard edition.

Enjoy!  And if you want a Chinook, the Miltech version is amazing.

https://www.miltechsimulations.com/products/miltech-simulations-ch47d

For anyone else, the steam sale is on a last chance right now. As I type, the sale ends in 20 hours.

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