It was reasonable to expect that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 could generate a good amount of constant air traffic but, a few hours after its launch on Steam, the relaunch of the Xbox flight simulator seems to be about to crash to the ground.\r\nLaunched two days ago on all Steam and Xbox also free via Game Pass (you subscribe via Amazon), Flight Simulator 2024 was taken by storm by players in the first hours.\r\nHowever, to date, over 4 thousand reviews present on Valve’s platform, only a small percentage are positive. Aspiring pilots report problems regarding extremely long loading times and, in some cases, the inability to access the game. We have had problems with one of our services,” says Sebastian Wloch, CEO and co-founder of Asobo. As Wloch explains (via PCGamesN), Flight Simulator 2024 introduces new systems that request data from a server upon first launch. This server uses a cache connected to a database, which quickly became saturated.\r\nAsobo obviously conducted preliminary stress tests simulating 200 thousand contemporary users, but this number was annihilated by the many players who stormed the game in the first hours after launch.\r\nAfter all, the first version of Flight Simulator surprised everyone, including Phil Spencer, and many players around the world wanted to be there from the first minute of its release relaunch.\r\nThe development team tried to limit access to the game, in the hope of being able to stem the problem and allow everyone to play Flight Simulator 2024 in peace, but unfortunately it didn’t help.\r\nThis obviously has led to the classic collapse of players on Steam. On launch day, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 reached a peak of 24,863 concurrent users on Steam. The next day the number dropped to 13,282, a decline of 45%. Today, November 21, there are approximately 8,000 active players.\r\nRight now the developers are working hard to resolve the technical issues, and feedback is improving as players are able to access the game and experience the new features. We’ll see if Flight Simulator 2024 will be able to get back in the air permanently or not.\r\nSpeaking of Xbox, something new for Cloud Gaming has also been available for a few hours: here are the details.