xbox game pass pc app stuck on making things awesome

I am not quite convinced that the various fixes, loading X Box App, restarts, uninstalling installing gaming services etc etc are actually fixes that deserve to be called a fix.

(This is around the sixth time, mostly in the last two months, when a complete uninstall and download is required for various reasons to get the program fixed and the second time trying to fix this issue after the last reinstall MSFS was OK for about a week. I installed that and now I am 16GB in to the 127GB download. Then the Update 1.19.9.0 update appeared in the Store just after a restart. I checked again, no updates were available. This was staggering since I had started with a fresh install. To my horror when I first ran MSFS - the stage where afterwards I have to wait 36 hours during that long 128GB download - it again came up with the “… Mandatory Updatee …”. So I uninstalled MSFS and started from scratch with 1.19.8.0. I tried all the fixes but none of them worked. I’m dying to play this flight simulator but now i have concerns I may pass from old age before getting the game to start. Now the xbox app is stuck on “Making things awesome” with no % or any useful troubleshooting information. I’m now trying to install the xbox app in a last ditch effort to get some value out of my wasted day and $60. I installed it on an m2 drive i have all my other steam games on which work excellently. I think it has something to do with not using the default file path. I haven’t even been able to play the game yet and already logged 12 hours on steam… I’m now stuck on the last 1 gig and nothing is helping any more. I restarted my computer/ the installer/ moved files/ done like half a dozen trouble shooting things i read online and managed to stagger my way through the install to the last 1 gig of the 127 gig mandatory content. I’ve downloaded 100gig+ patches for other games without it taking 12 hours. Really have to wonder if they make it so slow so that you go past the 9 hour refund window on steam at this point. I bought this sim on steam, and for some god forsaken reason the speed was throttled to PEAKING at ~60mbit/s on a 300 mbs connection. This is truly the worst installation experience I’ve ever had.

Xbox game pass pc app stuck on making things awesome