> I pre-paid for the new MS Flight Simulator. Not that it's your fault, rather than the video game industry's for foisting this stupid standard on us, but rule

> I pre-paid for the new MS Flight Simulator. Not that it's your fault, rather than the video game industry's for foisting this stupid standard on us, but rule number 1 is: never pre-order a game. I broke my own rule for Cyberpunk 2077, because I thought 'hey, it's CDPR, they can't do anything bad', and got a badly broken game that didn't even play properly until several months after release. Never again. I don't care how big or how fast the hype train is going; I will never ever pre-order a game again. I was in the alpha and beta for MSFS, and my experience was the same as yours: it took hours and hours to update inside the program, and it felt like the developers had no idea what a CDN was. I still wanted the fancy graphics, so I actually did wait, since I got it essentially for free. Not worth it. I ended up going back to X-Plane 11, which actually runs properly.