Marty M.

Though the visual part of this game is amazing with an up to date gaming system, it suffers from what I'll call 'developer neglect'. This simulation program has been plagued with software issues from day 1. Personally, I think it was never ready for release (and still isn't). Updates to the program are frequent, and are usually very large in size (GBs), take a long time to install (Hours), and usually replace one problem with another, rather than just fixing a problem. Load times from desktop are too long as well. Click the Icon to start the game, and it takes several seconds to show it is running, long enough that you'll think it never started, and click the icon again. Game play is buggy, and though the community (thankfully) is quick to react to remedy most of these bugs, users shouldn't have to figure out how to work around programming deficiencies. After a year, I no longer want to see an update available, because I really don't feel like relearning how to work around a whole new set of bugs nor do I feel like waiting, and waiting for the update to install. Updates usually take more time than I have to fly, so I never get to fly on update day. Top tier of this game is over $100 US. Add-ons can run the bill up quickly. I just don't think the bang for buck is in MSFS 2020, which is sad... As more and more 3rd party add ons become available, I just can't qualify spending more on a Simulator that takes hours to fix itself, and then doesn't... is riddled with issues... and often turns anticipation into frustration. System: AMD 3800X, RTX 2070 Super, 64GB DDR5 Ram, 1TB nvme M.2