Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has endured a troubled launch, with numerous gamers being unable to even get into the sport. Microsoft says that server points have been resolved, however the backlash has nonetheless resulted within the recreation being hit with an “Overwhelmingly Detrimental” person score on Steam, with solely 18 p.c of the three,000-plus person scores on the platform being optimistic on the time of writing.
All of that’s, unsurprisingly, being mirrored within the recreation’s participant numbers on the platform. As per SteamDB, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has seen a peak of 24,863 concurrent gamers on Steam on the time of writing, which is a good determine in isolation, however considerably decrease than what 2020’s Microsoft Flight Simulator noticed at its peak (over 61,000 concurrent gamers).
It’s, in fact, the center of the week, whereas the aforementioned technical points have additionally clearly held the sport again. Whether or not we will anticipate the participant numbers to climb a lot greater over the approaching days, particularly as patches and fixes are rolled out, needs to be value keeping track of.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is out there on Xbox Sequence X/S and PC.