A quick public service announcement for our readers: a new aircraft has appeared on the MSFS Marketplace called the “737-100.” Priced at $29.99 (€33) and listed under the developer name “Scenery Creation,” it requires a blunt warning. Before you spend your money… don’t.
The product went live earlier this week, and within 24 hours, simmers across the web had already taken it apart. Calling it a disappointment is an understatement; it is, quite literally, a scam. The red flags start before you even hit the buy button, as the promotional screenshots on the listing appear to be AI-generated and noticeably lack any actual in-sim cockpit shots.
Once in the simulator, the illusion completely falls apart. The aircraft is a bizarre Frankenstein of recycled assets and broken functionality. For starters, the cockpit features four engine RPM gauges, a glaring copy-paste error for a twin-engine 737. The loading screen displays the flight stats of a 747, and the aircraft relies entirely on default 747 audio rather than custom engine sounds. The basic functionality is just as broken. The external lights do not work, and the aircraft supposedly only powers up if you bypass a cold-and-dark setup and spawn directly on an active runway.
To make things worse, the Marketplace reviews are highly suspicious. The average rating is currently sitting somewhere between 4.8 and 5.0, propped up by a flood of perfect scores that are clearly fake and just there to trap unsuspecting buyers.
Where is Microsoft in all this? Asobo’s Community Managers have stepped in on an active thread in the MSFS forums, confirming they have escalated the issue to the team that runs the Marketplace. However, as of this morning, the listing remains live.
Prominent figures in the industry have also started to speak out. PMDG’s Mathijs Kok weighed in on the official forum, stating point-blank that “Microsoft should remove that product until things are sorted out” and urging other developers to take similar public stances. While PMDG isn’t a completely neutral observer (they sell on the same storefront and have a vested interest in maintaining consumer trust in the ecosystem) it remains a highly notable, on-the-record condemnation from a major developer.
A note for anyone who unfortunately already bought the aircraft: Microsoft is reportedly refusing refunds right now. The current understanding is that getting your money back will only be on the table if the listing is officially pulled from the store.
For everyone else, the best thing you can do right now is save your money and warn your fellow simmers. We will keep an eye on how Microsoft handles this and update this post if they finally take the product down or change their stance on refunds. Until then, stay skeptical of those five-star ratings.
